Updated 05/10/2024
I have seen many beautiful wildflower blooms this year in California - there are still many places in California where the flowers are still blooming - Where and when flowers bloom varies from year to year. The bloom depends on the amount of rain and other factors and progresses from warmer lower elevation places to cooler higher elevation places - the bloom often continues through summer and even into fall at higher elevations.
Some folks say there was no California Super Bloom 2024 - it seemed amazingly super to me!
Watch my videos to see how amazing the bloom has been this year!!
It looks like we are having a superbloom 2 years in a row (maybe not quite as super as last year some places - but maybe even better some other places) Scroll down my blog to see information, pictures, and video from this year and further down the blog see prior year bloom information. Where and when flowers bloom varies from year to year. The bloom depends on the amount of rain and other factors and progresses from warmer lower elevation places to cooler higher elevation places. Scroll down my blog for more information, videos and pictures!
Update 04/17/2024: We just went camping in the Carrizo Plain National Monument - April 2024 – April 7,8,15,16 – 2024. The flowers were spectacular in the hills where we camped. The place where we camped and where the flowers were the best was in the hills between 12 and 14 miles beyond where the pavement ends on the South side of the park along the main road (Soda Lake Road) heading North through the Carrizo Plain National Monument.
Here is our Carrizo Plain National Monument 2024 Superbloom Video:
The Carrizo Plain video is also on facebook - here is the link
More information about the Carrizo Plain: We viewed the wildflowers, road mountain bikes, dispersed camped and fiddled in the flowers on a trip to Northern California - we stopped here on the way North and then again on the return trip South. We traveled along the Main Soda Lake Road both ways. We traveled in a 2 wheel drive mini van. The road was in fairly good shape on the trip there - a grader was grading. Before our return trip, there was some hard rain in the Carrizo Plain so the road was more rutted on the return trip - however workers were smoothing the road with a grader that we let pass by and they smoothed the road for us! So the road should be in good shape now! The flowers in the hills where we camped were spectacular on our trip North April 7,8. On our return trip April 15,16, the flowers were fading a bit in the higher hills but improving on the flat valley. If you visit the Carrizo Plain be prepared - check the weather as roads become impassable when wet and it can also get very hot. Bring lots of water, food, warm cloths and have a full tank of gas - there are no services within 70 miles of the Carrizo Plain National Monument. I also have a Carrizo Plain web page.
Update 03/29/2024: Here is a Superbloom 2024 video - fiddling in the amazing flowers on the Bolsa Chica wetland mesa - daisies at the peak of bloom (maybe better than last year) :
Update 03/24/2024: Here is a 2024 Superbloom video from Southern California that I just took today:
03/07/2024:
The 2024 California Super Bloom is just beginning – here is a Super Bloom video I just recently took on February 27, 2024:
In my 2024 Superbloom video, the first half was just taken, the remaining half shows shots from last year. The Super Bloom 2024 video is also on facebook
The portion of the video that I took in 2024 includes sections of the Central California Coast including the following:
