This guide to 60 of the best hikes in the San Francisco area leads you to scenic overlooks, wildlife hot spots, and historical settings.

Jane Huber grew up in Sussex County, New Jersey. She graduated from Boston University and lived in Brooklyn before moving to San Francisco in 1991. Huber has worked as a library page, Action Park lifeguard, waitress, editorial assistant, recipe tester, department store sales associate, cooking school office manager, barista, and bookstore clerk. An avid hiker since the mid-1990s, Huber created the Bay Area Hiker website in 1999. With photos and detailed narratives for more than 250 hikes, Bay Area Hiker was described by Jon Carroll in the San Francisco Chronicle as "an obsessively complete guide for hikers." Huber lives with her husband and son in a San Francisco neighborhood where coyotes stroll the streets in the middle of day.

Overview Map

Map Legend

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Preface

60 Hikes by Category

Introduction

North Bay (Including Marin, Napa, and Sonoma Counties)

• Angel Island State Park


• China Camp State Park


• Jack London State Historic Park


• Marin Headlands


• Mount Burdell Open Space Preserve


• Mount Tamalpais: Cataract Falls-Potrero Meadows Loop


• Mount Tamalpais: Matt Davis-Steep Ravine Loop


• Mount Tamalpais: Mountain Home-Muir Woods Loop


• Mount Tamalpais: Phoenix Lake


• Point Reyes National Seashore: Muddy Hollow


• Point Reyes National Seashore: Tomales Point


• Ring Mountain Open Space Preserve


• Samuel P. Taylor State Park


• Sugarloaf Ridge State Park


• Tolay Lake Regional Park


• Tomales Bay State Park


• Trione-Annadel State Park

East Bay (Including Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)

• Anthony Chabot Regional Park


• Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve


• Briones Regional Park


• Coyote Hills Regional Park


• Fernandez Ranch


• Garin Regional Park


• Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve


• Las Trampas Wilderness Regional Preserve


• Mission Peak Regional Preserve


• Morgan Territory Regional Preserve


• Mount Diablo State Park: Donner Canyon Waterfall Loop


• Mount Diablo State Park: Mary Bowerman Trail


• Mount Diablo State Park: Mitchell Canyon-Eagle Peak Loop


• Redwood Regional Park


• Round Valley Regional Preserve


• Sunol Regional Wilderness


• Tilden Regional Park


• Vargas Plateau Regional Park

Peninsula and South Bay (Including San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz Counties)

• Almaden Quicksilver County Park


• Ano Nuevo State Park


• Big Basin Redwoods State Park: Waterfall Loop


• Castle Rock State Park


• Devil's Slide Trail


• Edgewood County Park and Natural Preserve


• Joseph D. Grant County Park


• Monte Bello Open Space Preserve


• Pulgas Ridge Open Space Preserve


• Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve


• Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve


• Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve


• San Bruno Mountain State & County Park


• San Pedro Valley County Park


• Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve


• Sierra Vista Open Space Preserve


• Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve


• Sweeney Ridge


• Uvas Canyon County Park


• Windy Hill Open Space Preserve

City of San Francisco

• Golden Gate Park: Stow Lake


• Lands End: Coastal Trail


• Mount Davidson


• Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve


• The Presidio: Batteries to Bluffs Trail

Appendix A: Hiking Clubs and Information Sources

Appendix B: Places to Buy Maps

Appendix C: Hiking Stores

Index

About the Author