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visitors without a 4x4 vehicle could participate by hiking or bicycling. The geocaches<br />
focused on the park’s history and highlighted some of the park’s natural features.<br />
The new geocaches encourage an appreciation for the park’s natural and cultural<br />
resources through interpretive cards found inside each container that visitors collect.<br />
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Hollister Hills SVRA holds an annual science camp each year in the spring. Sixth<br />
grade students, teachers, parents, and chaperones visit the SVRA to participate<br />
in curriculum-based outdoor science education. The camp teaches science<br />
through hands-on learning<br />
activities. For example, students<br />
orient themselves to the SVRA<br />
through geocaching activities,<br />
an introduction to local plants<br />
and animals, geology, and how<br />
the SVRA is managed for OHV<br />
recreation. Participants then assist<br />
staff in managing the park through<br />
projects like native plant restoration,<br />
invasive species removal, and<br />
habitat monitoring. SVRA staff<br />
from all disciplines help to make<br />
this program a success by developing content, preparing the science camp projects,<br />
participating in activities, and program delivery. The SVRA held its fifth annual<br />
science camp in 2016.<br />
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Prairie City SVRA opens its doors to mountain bike recreation every Wednesday<br />
in the late afternoon when the park is normally closed for maintenance projects.<br />
Opening the park to non-motorized recreation is a draw for local bicycle enthusiasts<br />
who may never visit an SVRA. Under the guidance of a bicycling events promoter,<br />
Prairie City SVRA offers a mid-week mountain bike racing series that draws<br />
participants from the Sierras and the San Francisco Bay Area. The event offers<br />
bicyclists of all ages an opportunity to ride the park’s many off-highway trails with a<br />
variety of traditional mountain bikes, tandem bikes, cyclo-cross, and even child-sized<br />
bikes with training wheels.<br />
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Hungry Valley SVRA hosted the Collegiate Baja SAE (Society of Automotive<br />
Engineers) California Competition in May 2016. The Baja SAE consists of<br />
Cerra Vista Science Camp<br />
competitions that challenge engineering students to design and build off-road<br />
vehicles capable of withstanding the abuse of off-highway travel. Hungry Valley<br />
SVRA hosted 67 colleges and universities from all over the United States. The<br />
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California State Parks, Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission
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