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…
Tag: Santa Cruz Mountains
Best Bay Area Parks to see wildflowers
Some of the sites in the list are closed due to CZU Lightning Fire Complex and SCU Fire Complex. Please check web sites on the latest info. If I ask you, what place would you think when I ask you where to find wildflowers in California, I doubt, I will hear “Bay Area.” But indeed…
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…
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….
Rancho San Vicente
When I think about Spring, I think about wildflowers. The month-plus long blooming season is a great time here in the area. Almost all surrounding mountains have places where to find patches with flowers. Two years in a row we drove to Calero County Park. And this year, I wanted to do it again. On…
Big Basin State Park: Sequoia Trail
Big Basin State Park currently closed due to extensive fire damage. Please check web sites on the latest info. The redwoods are magnificent trees, long, beautiful. They draw the fog. They cast the shadows on the hot days. How many time we visited Big Basin and how many trails we still didn’t hike. The Sequoia…