Audible Mount Diablo

Audible Mount Diablo is an invitation to adventure. Its free multimedia tours combine lively interviews and music with the rush of wind and the chirps, howls, and growls of wildlife. Naturalists heighten visitors’ appreciation of the sights and sounds at each stop, tell tales of the mountain’s past, and suggest what to look for around the next bend. Photographs pop up to help identify plants and animals. Perfect to prepare for your first--or your hundredth--trip up the mountain.

Sponsored by Save Mount Diablo and the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. Produced by Audio Guides to the Outdoors

Photo above by Scott Hein

Fire, Drought, Rain, and Hope: Episode One

Apr 19, 2024

Three Wild Years in the Diablo Range

With the help of ranchers, naturalists, scientists, and land managers, this 9-part series showcases the mysterious, little-known 200-mile long Diablo Range after the massive fires of 2020. It ventures into places off the beaten track for most Bay Area residents, yet deeply connected...

Early Bloomers

Mar 8, 2024

Early-blooming flowers bring beauty to the forested understory of Mount Diablo State Park. Here are a few that pop up January through March.

A Mount Diablo Interpretive Association film by Kendall Oei, produced in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Part of the Wild Mount Diablo series.

Wild Mount Diablo: WONDERS OF 2023

Feb 9, 2024

Join Wild Mount Diablo as we look back at some of our favorite photos from 2023. It's exciting to imagine what our intrepid photographers, Wally De Young and Kendall Oei, will come across this year!!

A Mount Diablo Interpretive Association film produced in partnership with Save Mount Diablo.

Wild Mount Diablo: POISON OAK

Jan 26, 2024

The branches of this irritating plant are bare right now, but wise park visitors know to be wary. Learn of its infamous debut in London in the early 1800s—and how it's related to plants in many kitchens today.

Part of Mount Diablo Interpretive Association's WILD MOUNT DIABLO series on the plants and animals of Mount...

Bay Area Geology: Episode 5

Jan 12, 2024

Mount Diablo's distinctive "pillow basalt" erupted from submarine volcanoes hundreds of millions of years ago. Learn how it made its way to the top of a mountain, in the fifth episode of the TRAIL THROUGH TIME, a series of geology videos featuring naturalist Ken Lavin. Sponsored by the Mount Diablo Interpretive...