Resolution Trail
Today, the crash site is part of the El Corte de Madera Creek Open Space Preserve, which includes the "Resolution Trail", named for the plane. Park rules restrict visitors to the trail and visitors are also requested to respect this historical site by leaving any artifacts where they find them.
On 3 December 2008, the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District agreed to install a memorial plaque near the crash site at the junction of the Fir & Vista Point trails, just below the park's Vista Point. This location was significant because it was the location where a military H-19 'Chickasaw' recovery helicopter landed on the day of the crash. Over fifty people attended the plaque's dedication on 27 June 2009, including the sister-in-law of William Kapell, and George Bordi, a local resident of the day who heard the plane fly overhead, in thick fog, then moments later he heard the tremendous "crump" sound of the plane impacting the area nearby, in 1953.
Read more about this topic: BCPA Flight 304
Famous quotes containing the words resolution and/or trail:
“We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face—so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still give variety to a winter’s walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)