This Hot Spot is meant to be used for stationary hawk-watches, typically in spring or fall. It has not formal status, but the site is at the upper end of a long left-hand loop going up towards the entrance booth for Jacks Peak County Park. The site has parallel parking places for folks preferring to hike into the County Park rather than drive in and pay the fee. These parking places offer an extensive view towards the Monterey Bay (to the northwest) and, more importantly, to ridgelines to the north and east that provide updrafts for vultures and raptors in migration. The hawkwatch is best in warm, sunny weather; it is not good in foggy weather. A scope is very useful.

Turkey Vulture, plus Red-tailed and Red-shouldered Hawk, are resident. Migrants of interest include Northern Harrier, Cooper's and Sharp-shinned Hawks, Peregrine and Merlin, and Golden and Bald Eagle (rare). Rare raptors seen here in fall include Ferruginous, Broad-winged, and Swainson's Hawk. At times passerine migrants have also been seen.