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In the middle of the Bay, less than 5 miles from downtown San Francisco, Angel Island rises like a jewel. Accessible only by boat, the island offers a backpacking experience unlike any other, where vi
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San Francisco
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On the edge of the greater Bay Area resides a diverse natural world of oak woodlands, redwood groves, perennial streams, far eaching vistas, and fantastic spring wildflowers, all tucked deep within se
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Guerneville
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Once upon a time—50 million years or so ago—the marshy edge of California was in today’s nearby town of Antioch. Towering volcanoes loomed to the east where the Sierra Nevada range now rises, their fl
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Somersville
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Little Butano Creek slices westward in a narrow defile almost completely protected within Butano (BOO-tah-no) State Park. Less than 4 miles long yet brimming with ecological diversity, the canyon cont
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Davenport
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A short backpacking trip to a lightly-traveled trail camp, this adventure rewards with fantastic sandstone boulders and towering views over the San Lorenzo River and Pescadero Creek watersheds. The tr
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Los Gatos
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Located in the heart of the Diablo Range, vast Henry W. Coe State Park features soaring ridges, steep canyons, gurgling creeks, thriving oaks, abundant wildlife, radiant spring wildflowers, and the im
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Gilroy
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After draining old-growth redwood wild, Waddell Creek flows through the broad valley of Rancho del Oso to end its journey at Waddell Beach. Winding alongside it, the Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail provides
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Waddell Beach
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The first leg is an easy downhill trip from the heights of the Santa Cruz Mountains to a trail camp above Slate Creek set among madrones, oaks, and slender redwoods. First through rolling grasslands w
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Boulder Creek
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Monte Bello lulls in more ways than one. A singletrack interpretive nature trail winds along the very headwaters of Stevens Creek. A steady climb reaches above the deep crease formed by the grinding S
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Palo Alto
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This backpacking trip, the only one of its kind in the East Bay Regional Park system, puts you in the heart of the Ohlone Wilderness, a rugged, remote, and beautiful area. Along the way, you will also
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Livermore
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Deep and secluded, pocketed with untouched redwood groves and lined with gurgling streams, Pescadero Creek County Park shelters more than 6000 acres in the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Amid it a
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La Honda
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An isolated world of forest and sea, Point Reyes National Seashore protects 30,000 acres of wild California within the boundaries of Phillip Burton Wilderness. Over 100 miles of trail interlace throug
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Bolinas
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The cloak of the redwood forest hushes sound, diffuses light, and radiates life. Travel through a dense canopy of regeneration to a shady trail camp, your base for exploring a distant stand of huge ol
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Woodside
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This trip takes you on a circle route around the western area of Henry W. Coe State Park—sampling high ridges, dense manzanita forests, oak savannas, and campsites beside two forks of Coyote Creek. Yo
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Morgan Hill
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In the more recently opened, southwestern corner of Henry W. Coe State Park, this trip takes the backpacker up high, steep-sided ridges above tree-shaded canyons, and through remote grasslands dotted
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Gilroy
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The San Francisco Bay Area is uniquely fortunate in having a huge semi-wilderness—Point Reyes National Seashore, containing 71,000 acres—located less than 40 miles north of the city of San Francisco.
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San Francisco
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From the ridgeline spine of the Santa Cruz Mountains, the Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail descends through lush forest, passes sweeping vistas, lines crystalline streams, explores magnificent old-growth, vis
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Los Gatos
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It is as it was. Rolling hills cleft by valleys, split by ridges, battered by the sea. A land of sweeping vistas, vibrant life, and dramatic geology in a protected natural world isolated from the bust
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Sausalito
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Stretching nearly 20 miles through the most remote land in the entire East Bay Regional Park District, the Ohlone Trail is a pointto- point journey remarkable for its isolation, beauty, and strenuous
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Fremont
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This five-day backpacking voyage across the Santa Cruz Mountains begins in the foothills above Palo Alto and ends at the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, it tours perennial streams, sweeping vistas, huma
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Los Altos
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