Category: City & Regional Parks

Brushy Peak Regional Preserve is a great hike in Livermore which has easy to follow loop trails and no shade. If you want an easy to moderate hiking experience with less people, the best time to come is when its cool and cloudy.

Point Pinole Regional Shoreline is a beautiful regional park with a fishing pier and rocky beach. The trail is flat and good for walking any time of the year.

Coyote Hills Regional Park is a very popular East Bay Regional Park located in Fremont.  It has beautiful views of the Bay, the marshlands, and hills.  There are a lot of trails to hike on and bike thru.

Devil’s Slide Trail is an old portion of Highway 1 that was decommissioned for auto travel after numerous landslides and accidents. A tunnel was built instead for cars and the old portion of Highway 1 was made into a 1.3 mile trail for foot and bike traffic.

Sunol Regional Wilderness is a popular spot for locals especially in the summer when there’s water.  There’s a watering hole area called Little Yosemite where people come to swim and hang out with their friends and family. 

When visiting Big Break Regional Shoreline, you learn a lot about the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. They have a clean visitor center and a large map of the Bay Area at this park.  You can do a lot of water activities here or you can bike/hike the 3.5-mile paved Bayview Trail.

Hayward Shoreline Center is located at Hayward Regional Shoreline, an east bay regional park with views of wetlands, marshes, and salt ponds.  There is only one trail, SF Bay Trail, that goes on for miles.  The easy flat trail is ideal for hiking and walking.

Dublin Hills Regional Park is another East Bay Regional Park featuring more green/yellow hills depending on the season. Two trails worth pointing out are the Calaveras Ridge Regional Trail and Donlon Loop Trail. The park is right off of I-580 and has no shade.

The black diamonds at this park mine are not actually jewels but a nickname for coal.  Back in the late 1860s, coal was a main energy source at the time. Being a miner was hard work with long hours and dangerous conditions. After mining lost its popularity, the area became a cattle ranching community.

This is a cool hiking spot especially during the hot months. The trees provide a lot of shade and its the closest redwood park in the East Bay area. If you’re sick of crowds at Muir Woods this location is a good alternative. From Canyon Meadow Staging Area, I took the Stream Trail -> Tres Canyon Trail -> French Trail -> Bellflower Trail -> Mill Trail -> back to Stream Trail.