Directions:

Leave San Luis Obispo heading north on US Hwy 101 until you reach the top of Cuesta Grade. Just before the top, enter the left turn lane and cut across the southbound traffic to the turn out on the west side of Hwy 101. Follow the turnout road to the right, taking you to a paved single-lane road that goes upwards. Follow this up for about 5 miles until you reach the TV and Radio towers. About one mile before the first TV tower a small gate with the sign "road closed" can be bypassed to get to the top of Shooters. Continue on past this point to keep on going towards the Morning Glory trailhead. Just past the towers you will see a turn out on the left side of the road with a old gate about 25' feet down the road. The area is called the 'Botanical Gardens' and signed. Follow the singletrack around the old gate and down the old road. Follow this trail for about a mile. Make a left off of the road onto single track by a rock pile/marker. This is the Morning Glory trail. Follow this for about 5 miles until you reach another old road. Turn left on the old road and follow the trail up (Shooters) until you reach the top of the grade again and eventually (about 4 miles) the same old eroded blacktop road. Follow this back to your car. If you go right where Morning Glory meets the old road and go down, you will find several different trails all of which lead to the Railroad Tracks and eventually to Poly Canyon or Stenner Canyon. Locals, including Cal Poly students, usually enter and exit the ride from this direction, but from outside of town it is probably easier to use the West Cuesta grade access.

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