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Once common shade trees east of the Rockies, elms in the United States have been decimated by Dutch elm disease. This fungal disease, spread by beetles, was introduced by accident around 1930. It’s good to see a healthy elm flourishing, especially one with so distinguished a past.

At about 1 mile, you come to a paved path on the right, the first since you crossed Conservatory Dr. West. Turning right, you climb moderately past several rest benches and dirt paths, all on your left. When you reach a chess-themed area — pedestals in the shape of knights and rooks supporting a covering that provides shade for tables and benches — bear left and follow a paved path through it.

With the chess area on your left, you merge with a paved path that joins from the right. Go about 75 feet to a junction, where you turn right onto a dirt path and stay left where it forks. Now you descend gently through a beautiful grove of coast live oak, traversing a hillside that drops left. At the next fork stay left again, and follow the path to a park entrance on Fulton St. across from 2nd Ave. Turn right and follow the sidewalk back to the trailhead.