Fort Ord A Love Story Paperback – January 11, 2024

In Fort Ord A Love Story, Dorothy Denning takes the reader on a journey through the Fort Ord National Monument and adjacent areas, showing what she loves about the land and what makes it so special. With over 1,000 color photos, she shows gorgeous flowers that adorn Fort Ord’s trails and carpet its fields. She shows beautiful ponds and grasses, magnificent trees, and the flowers that bloom around them. She shows plants with heavenly scents, spectacular views from ridges and hilltops, and some of the wildlife that inhabits the land. She shows how Fort Ord evolves during the year and notes when and where to find its treasures. An avid hiker, Denning describes Fort Ord’s wonderful trails and a few loop hikes that combine them. The book covers most of the trails in the National Monument and on adjacent land owned by Monterey County. Read more