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Grape History on a Sunset Ride

by | Apr 24, 2010 | Travel & Preservation

Hitting the trail in California’s Wine Country at Sugarloaf Ridge park.
As I sauntered through an open meadow on Romer, a black-and-white Tennessee Walking horse, I thought about the first ranchers who lived in the fertile valleys of today’s Sugarloaf Ridge State Park in California’s Wine Country. Sugarloaf Ridge was not included in the Agua Caliente Mexican land grant of 1836, but it did serve to separate Juan Wilsonâ


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