60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: San Francisco: Including Santa Rosa, Oakland, and San Jose

By Jane Huber

Book Overview

Bay Area parks and preserves offer a dramatic variety of landscapes, from rugged redwood-forested canyons to breezy coastal bluffs, grassy rolling hills to sunny chaparral-coated hillsides. Well-known destinations such as Point Reyes National Seashore, Mount Diablo State Park, Mount Tamalpais State Park, and many other more obscure jewels of the Bay Area park system are just a short drive from the heart of San Francisco. 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: San Francisco guides readers to a splendid assortment of trails in the 9 counties surrounding one of the world's most beautiful cities. A gentle Mediterranean climate encourages year round hiking and provides such seasonal splendors as carpets of colorful wildflowers, rushing waterfalls, and creekbeds littered with maple and oak leaves. Whether hikers crave a quick and easy get-out-of-town stroll or a challenging day-long trek through wilderness, this book is the perfect trailblazer, for City natives and first-time visitors alike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897325532
• ISBN13: 9780897325530
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Good book

This is a great book for the beginner hiker to know what's out there. However my main gripe is that in the front of the book he lists which hikes are metro accessible. But when you go to the hike, no where does it actually say which metro to get off at. Also some of the "hikes" in DC are made up. I don't consider walking on city blocks an actual hike. Some color pictures would have been nice, but there are plenty of nice b & w pictures though.

Restless in suburbia

[...] Just the ticket into the woods or over the mountain if you feel trapped in Silicon Valley. Good details about the trails and tips on where the flowers are blooming.

Great book for hikers

I got the book three months ago and have used it a lot since then. It provides pretty accurate information for my hiking trips in the area. I would recommend it to hiking enthusiasts.