Friends of Lafferty Park

Lafferty Park atop Sonoma Mountain as seen from Petaluma

Winter cascade of Adobe Creek in Lafferty Park

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Mitsui Ranch photos
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Background
Lafferty Chronology

Key Documents:

Information about the Mitsui trail offer and its significance for Lafferty Park: press coverage, map, photos, background

Letter guidelines for writing to key elected officials and newspapers

Analysis of safety issues on Sonoma Mountain Road, with a proposal for lower-cost traffic-calming solutions by Dr. Joern Kroll (also in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format)

"Press backgrounder"; a concise history and status of the Lafferty issue

More documents

Friends of Lafferty Park is a Petaluma-based volunteer organization supporting the City of Petaluma's plans for a wilderness park at the old Lafferty Ranch atop Sonoma Mountain. Our mission is to develop, maintain, and improve Petaluma's Lafferty Park and enhance the experience of park visitors through volunteerism, fund-raising, and education.

Bonnie Mitsui's Extraordinary Trail Offer

Bonnie Mitsui, owner of a 630-acre ranch adjacent to Lafferty Park, covering much of the top part of Sonoma Mountain, has offered to donate a trail easement across her ranch to the State of California, which could one day connect Lafferty to Jack London State Historic Park on the northeastern slope of the mountain, subject to certain conditons. More on this exciting breakthrough, with photos...

Contemplative hiker on upper Lafferty Park meadow. Photo by Bruce Hagen.

"Let children walk with Nature."
- John Muir

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Updated December 21, 2010