Guides
Beauty Ranch and London Lake at Jack London State Historic Park
This loop walk will include portions of the Beauty Ranch, the London’s experimental farm, vineyard views, a redwood forest walk, and London Lake. The walk will also take one to start-offs for several additional trails covering the bulk of Jack London SHP. Jack London’s “Beauty Ranch” comprises about 1400 acres stretching from the floor of...
Loop Walk on the Lower Trails: Happy Walls House and Museum, Jack and Charmian’s Grave Site, Wolf House Ruins, Vineyards
This short hike highlights the lower portion of Jack London SHP. Featured are the Happy Walls House and Museum, Jack and Charmian’s grave site, and the Wolf House Ruins. Started in 1910 the Wolf House was to be a 15,000 square foot home featuring custom furniture, a reflecting pool, and more. In August of 1913, shortly before Jack and his wife...
A fun little hike with a 360-degree panoramic view at the top
Fun little hike just off of Lucas valley road in Marin. The first mile is a heart thumper.
Connecting several trails to cover the central third of the park with not a hint of the city just over the hill.
Overview: This walk takes you through the central third of Annadel SP and through some of the best of what the park has to offer. Some of the trails can get quite a bit of hiking, trail running, and bike traffic, .but for the bulk of this trip it never really seemed crowded. Lake Ilsanjo offers fishing and some of the most beautiful and bountiful...
Hike the winding forest trail up reach the sun-bleached summit of Mt Barnabe and views over Marin County.
The Marin headlands across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco offer tons of sightseeing potential, but doesn't everyone know it. Areas like Muir Woods and Stinson Beach are choked with traffic every fair weather weekend. Choose to drive an extra few miles, leaving the mellee behind you and you'll be rewarded with empty roads and quiet trails. We...
6.2 mile trail in Samuel Taylor State Park, California
Devils Gulch is about 6.2 miles long and located near Taylorville (historical), California. The trail is great for hiking and normally takes a half day
A morning hike up Barnabe Peak, it's vistas and a return along a Redwood lined creek trail.
A morning hike to the old fire watcher’s tower on Barnaby Peak. A loop back along the ridge's top and down to the canyon floor to Lagunitas Creek. The path then travels along the old railroad right of way (now a portion of the Cross Marin Trail), ultimately returning to the starting point. This hike will take you through several vegetation zones...
Sampling Northern California's spectacular coastline on an overnight camp-out.
Point Reyes National Seashore has more natural wonders than you could ever hope to absorb in one day, so you might as well camp out. All four of Point Reyes' hike-in campgrounds have a privy and running water. The main challenge -- almost as daunting as lugging 40 pounds of camping gear several miles on foot -- is securing a campsite: reservations...
A great overview hike of Sugarloaf State Park
This hike will provide a great overview of Sugarloaf in a relatively short time. The trail starts at the valley floor, climbs and does a loop along the northern slope and canyons. The trails followed then return to the far end of the valley floor and return to the starting point near the Ranger Station. Camping The campground is located around the...
Loop of trails from Bear Valley Visitor Center in Olema and back.
This guide starts at the Bear Valley Visitor Center near Olema, CA. This is a large area with car parking, horse trailer parking, water trough, hitching racks, picnic areas, restrooms. The visitor center has a very nice interpretive center where you can get free maps and information. You can also visit the Morgan Horse training stable behind the center...
Short Backpacking trip to Coast Camp
This is a short backpacking trip from the Bear Valley Visitor Center to Coast Camp. This is an overnight trip that can be changed to several different ways back. This is a good short overnight trip. The first two miles is pretty steep up hill and the last four is mostly downhill. There isn't really a lot of flat trail.
Easy trail in Sleepy Hollow, CA
This is an easy hike with a good view of parts of Marin. There are many different options that you can take to change the experience of your hike. This guide shows one of the many options and tells you about possible alternative you could take. I found this to be a good running place since it has a good view the whole way and the ups and downs make...
When it's sunny in the N. Bay does not mean it will be sunny at the coast, I took a chance and have wanted to hike the Northern part of the Coastal trail on the Pt.ReyesNationalSeaShore. Once you leave Limantour road towards the Hostel (.5 miles) there are cars parked on the right side of the road, one trail head starts here, or you can go to the parking...
a nice walk to the ocean
This trail is full of wild life and flowers, especially good in Spring at low tide but a great hike all year, you walk through a herd of cows sometimes they stand on the trail, go around them, when you get to the top of the lagoon the trail goes to the right and left, take the left one, the right one is a deer trail that is hard to follow, the trail...
10.2 mile trail near Inverness Park, California
Bayview Trail is about 10.2 miles long and located near Inverness Park, California. The trail is great for hiking and normally takes a half day. When you pull into the lot you will find he Bayview trailhead and the trailhead for the Sky trail on the opposite side of the lot. If you decide to take the downhill Bayview trail, it is mostly single track...
Trips
Bear Valley Loop - Point Reyes
Olema, California, United States
Hiking | 11.3 miles (15.9 miles away)
Hiking | 11.3 miles (15.9 miles away)
Fourth of July weekend and the crowds were out. But I immediately veered off to head up Mt. Wittenberg and lost nearly everyone. Only saw the occassional hiker after that. Great July weather -- which is to say foggy -- and perfect for a hike. Point Reyes always offers great sites and a lot of options. In this case I took Mt. Wittenberg to Sky Trail to Coast Trail and back up...
Hiking above the clouds - Sugarloaf Ridge State Park
Kenwood, California, United States
Hiking | 8.1 miles (15.7 miles away)
Hiking | 8.1 miles (15.7 miles away)
Barbara proposed to go hiking up to Bald Mountain in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park. This is a park I have never been to and that I was recently looking at, so despite the long drive, I was in. And so was Pavla.One of the trails leading to Bald Mountain is part of the Bay Area Ridge Trail (B.A.R.T.) system so I thought it was also an opportunity to hike that segment.We decided...
My first trip so far to Everytrail.com so I hope someone checks it out. It has been one mf my favorite hikes I have ever done, one because it is beautiful all times of year and two, its EXTREMELY close to home for me.
I tried to hike to Gunsite rock before from Hood Mountaiin, I took the wrong trails was was lost, thank goodness for GPS! However the Hood mountain hike was a good one. The begining of this hike can start at the parking lot near the summit or just before the road starts to climb there is a free dirt parking lot on the left side of the road. The trailhead is easy...
Mr Burdell to Olompali park and back,
Novato, California, United States
Hiking | 11.7 miles (7.3 miles away)
Hiking | 11.7 miles (7.3 miles away)
Alex and I hike 12 miles 6 hours we got caught in 2 showers but it turned into a beautiful day. Stand by for my next hike saturday pacheco Valley to Lucas Valley over Big Rock 16 miles. :O)
