Joaquín's Flat is a small space of about 8 to 10 acres as shown on the map below. The boundary for Joaquín's Flat is arbitrary, but generally the flat is considered to be contain within the grassy space including the tree areas that are still easy to walk through. The arbitrary boundary then becomes the area where the rocks or foliage make walking difficult.
Joaquín's Flat Area
This small space consist of a relatively flat area that slops upward slightly to the ridge at its southwest boundary. Joaquín's Flat is generally a grass covered sandy soil that is comfortably populated with Gray Pine ( pinus sabiniana ), California Juniper ( juniperus californica ) and Scrub Oak ( quercus berberidifolia ) surrounded by rugged rocks, Chamise ( adenostoma fasciculatum ), Mexican Manzanita ( arctostaphylos pungens ) and poison oak ( toxicodendron diversilobum ).
Panoramic View of Joaquín's Flat
The are several small old diggings scattered throughout the flat. There is no indication as to what these diggings were about, but based upon their size, they were probably the result of somebody digging something up. They are probably holes left by pervious treasure hunters or the Boy Scouts who frequented the area during the 1940s and 1950s.
There are also traces that the old dirt road came up the southwestern face and came over the ridge here. This was a firebreak road made through here during the 1942 wildfire. This road appears to have been remove and the habitat restored.