Trails

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Favorite Peninsula Loops:

* indicates a run in redwood forest!

• Huddart-Wunderlich * – 17 miles
• Huddart-Phleger-Purisima * – 17.5 miles
• El Corte de Madera Periphery Loop * – 13.5 miles
• Windy Hill: Razorback-Hamms Gulch from main parking – 10-12 miles
• Portola Valley Ranch Figure-8 – 10-10.5 miles
• Arastradero-Los Trancos – 12.75-20 miles
• Monte Bello-Upper Stevens Creek-Long Ridge-Skyline Ridge – 16.5 miles
• Fremont Older-Stevens Creek – 9.5-11 miles
• Castle Rock-Sanborn-Saratoga Gap – 12.5-22 miles (prior post)
• Butano Ridge-Pomponio * – 14.5-15 miles
• Pescadero-Sam MacDonald-Memorial * – 10-25 miles
• Peters Creek Loop * – 11.5 miles
• Butano State Park * – 10.5 miles-15.5 miles (prior post)
• Big Basin to Berry Creek Falls * – 10.3 miles
• Buzzard’s Roost-Eagle Rock * -10-16 miles

A list of 70 locations in the Bay Area where great trail running can be found (note: needs updating): 

Map of Bay Area parks

* indicates a park I have yet to run

Peninsula – Skyline Blvd Parks (17):

• Fifield-Cahill Ridge – old growth Douglas fir, vistas
• Purisima Creek – redwoods, fir forest, ridge vistas, stream
  
• Phleger Estate – redwoods, mixed forest, stream
  
• Huddart – redwoods, mixed forest, stream
  
• El Corte de Madera – redwoods, mixed forest, stream
  
• Wunderlich – redwoods, mixed forest
• Teague Hill – mixed forest, redwoods
• Windy Hill – mixed forest, ridge vistas, meadows, stream
• Russian Ridge – ridge vistas, meadows
• Skyline Ridge – ridge vistas, meadows, fir forest
• Los Trancos – mixed forest
• Monte Bello – meadows, vistas, fir forest
• Long Ridge – ridge vistas, mixed forest
• Upper Stevens Creek – fir forest 
• Saratoga Gap – mixed forest
  
• Castle Rock State Park – mixed forest, boulders, vistas
  
• Sanborn – mixed forest, redwoods

 

Peninsula – Eastside Hwy 280 corridor (14):

• Pulgas Ridge – chaparral, hardwood forest
• Edgewood – meadows, hardwood forest
• Belmont Open Space – chaparral, hardwood forest
• Big Canyon and Eaton Parks – meadows, hardwood forest
• Upper Crystal Springs/Canada Road – meadows, vistas
• Lower Crystal Springs/Sawyer Camp Trail – vistas, forest
• Woodside Town Trails – mixed forest
• Portola Valley Ranch & Town Trails – hardwood forest
• Arastradero – meadows, vistas
• Foothills Park – ridge vistas, hardwood forest
• Los Altos Hills Town Trails
  
• Hidden Villa – deciduous forest, stream
  
• Rancho San Antonio – deciduous forest, ridge vistas
• Stevens Creek/Fremont Older– meadows, hardwood forest, vistas

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Peninsula – Westside Santa Cruz Mountains (10):

• San Pedro Valley/McNee Ranch State Park – coastal scrub, vistas
• Portola Redwoods State Park– old growth redwoods, fir forest
• Pescadero – redwoods, mixed forest
  
• Sam McDonald – redwoods, vistas
• Memorial – redwoods, vistas
• Butano State Park– old growth redwoods, mixed forest
• Big Basin State Park – old growth redwoods, waterfalls
• Little Basin – redwoods, mixed forest
• Skyline to the Sea Trail – the grand tour!
• Zayante Railroad Grade – redwoods

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Marin (6):

• Headlands/Golden Gate – seashore, coastal, ridge vistas
• Mount Tamalpais State Park – redwoods, ridge vistas
• Marin Water District/Mt. Tam Watershed – redwoods, mixed forest, views
• Muir Woods National Monument – old growth redwoods
• Dipsea Trail – classic Mill Valley to Stinson Beach
• Point Reyes National Seashore – seashore, coastal, fir forest

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Santa Cruz Area (5):

• Wilder Ranch State Park – seashore, coastal, meadows, forest
• Pogonip – meadows, redwoods
• Henry Cowell State Park – old growth redwoods
  
• Fall Creek Unit – redwoods, cascading stream
• Forest of the Nisene Marks – redwoods, mixed forest, stream

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East Bay (12):

• Berkeley Fire Road/Claremont Preserve – mixed forest, views
• Wildcat Canyon – chapparal
• Sibley – mixed forest
• Huckleberry – mixed forest
• Redwood – redwoods, ridge vistas
• Joaquin Miller – redwoods
• Lake Chabot – mixed forest
• Briones *
• Las Trampas
• Mount Diablo – chaparral, meadows, mixed forest, pines
• Pleasanton Ridge *
• Garin/Dry Creek Pioneer *

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South Bay (9):

• Mount Madonna – redwoods, oak woodland, vistas
• Quicksilver-Almaden – meadows, ridge vistas, deciduous forest
• Sierra Azul – oak woodland, chaparral, vistas
• Calero/Rancho Canada del Oro *
• Grant County Park *
• Sunol/Ohlone Regional – grasslands, oak trees, pines
  
• Mission Peak – grasslands, oaks
• Lake Del Valle – grasslands, oaks
• Henry Coe State Park & Orestimba Wilderness *

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As you can see, the trail running in the Bay Area is AMAZING!!