Some of the sites in the list are closed due to CZU Lightning Fire Complex. Big Basin State Park currently is closed due to extensive fire damage. Please check web sites on the latest info. San Francisco Bay Area has a lot to offer when you think about hiking. Salt ponds of the bay, rolling…
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Hiking Peters Creek Loop at Portola Redwoods State Park
Portola Redwoods State Park is frequently forgotten. Its more famous brother, Big Basin State Park, sees way more hikers. Nestled deep in the redwood-covered Santa Cruz mountains, the park has so many to offer. Peters Creek Loop trail features, probably, the most scenic area, that could compete with northern coastal groves. The trail is kick…
Waterfall hikes. San Francisco South Bay and Peninsula edition
Some of the sites in the list are closed due to CZU Lightning Fire Complex. Big Basin State Park currently closed due to extensive fire damage. Please check web sites on the latest info. Winter brings rain, and with the rains, waterfalls season starts. When mountains and their mighty falls are still covered with the…
Portola Redwoods State Park: Tip Toe Falls
Winter is an eventful season. Snow in Sierras and Cascades, storms on the coast, rain in the Bay. And when it starts to rain the Bay Area, the best thing to do is go hike waterfalls. North Bay has its jewels, as well as Mt.Diablo. Peninsula has Big Basin famous Berry Falls and other smaller…
Hazy Hike at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Fall Creek Unit
Sites in the post are closed due to CZU Lightning Fire Complex. Please check web sites on the latest info. It was a smoky November. So hazy, one cannot see ridges around the Bay Area. Even the coast had poor air quality. We spent two weekends in a row doing nothing, and I felt anxious….
Redwoods National Park: Bald Hills Rd
I never had any idea where the borders are of Redwoods National and State parks. I imagine the whole region between Trinidad and Oregon Border with redwoods forests to be a national park. On night two days before the long Memorial Day weekend, I planned the trip to the North. And one of the days…
The High Rock River Trail
In four years of living in California, I saw many redwood groves. I even have a plan to write the list of my favorite parks to see the magnificent giants. Though I notice from our road trips north, one place somehow became a favorite. More correct to say, one road became our favorite. Two-line State…