Barney Laiolo Redwood Grove

Grass trodden path to Barney Laiolo Redwood Grove
Mission Trail Nature Preserve

Off Serra Trail, about ¼ mile from the Mission Trail Nature Preserve entrance at Rio Road, are two trails leading to Barney Laiolo Redwood Grove; a grove of redwood trees shading 2 wooden benches and a bronze plaque mounted on a rock. The inscription on the bronze plaque, as follows:

BARNEY LAIOLO REDWOOD GROVE

DEDICATED JANUARY 1994
IN HONOR OF MAYOR BERNARD F. LAIOLO
AND HIS FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS
ANDERSON, BROWN, FALGE, AND WHITTLESEY
WHO, IN 1971, ACQUIRED THE
MISSION TRAIL PARK FOR THE CITY
OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA. THE ACQUISITION
WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY A GENEROUS
DONATION FROM WILIAM G. DOOLITTLE
PLACED BY THE FRIENDS OF BARNEY LAIOLO

The City of Carmel-by-the-Sea should honor the spirit of Barney Laiolo by creating wood chip trails from Serra Trail to the Barney Laiolo Redwood Grove to enable park users to more easily walk to and enjoy Barney’s Grove.