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Coastal Trail to Tennessee Point (Golden Gate National Recreation Area, CA)
Named for the SS Tennessee, a commercial steamer that wrecked nearby in 1853, Tennessee Point is one of the best vantage points overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Golden Gate National Recreation Area’s Marin Headlands area. A relatively easy hike leads … Continue reading
Point Bonita Lighthouse Trail (Golden Gate National Recreation Area, CA)
Throughout much of San Francisco’s history, ships seeking to enter the Bay Area flirted with disaster: jagged rocks, shallow beds, dense fog, and nasty waves left hundreds of vessels in the 19th and 20th centuries capsized, torn apart, and buried … Continue reading
Posted in California, Easy Hikes, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Tagged Bay Area, California, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, historic, lighthouse, Marin, Marin Headlands, Pacific Ocean, Point Bonita Cove, Point Bonita Lighthouse, Point Bonita Trail, San Francisco, wheelchair-accessible
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Purisima Creek Redwoods Loop (Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve, CA)
The San Francisco Bay Area in northern California is a fantastic launching point for redwood hunters, with accessible groves of these mesmerizing trees within an hour and a half both north and south of the Golden Gate. While the largest … Continue reading
Coastal Trail – Lands End Section, including Mile Rock Beach (Golden Gate National Recreation Area, CA)
The windswept shoreline of Lands End forms the northwest tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and is easily accessible from northern California’s iconic cultural capital. For those looking for a brief urban escape, the Land’s End section of the Coastal … Continue reading
Posted in California, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Moderate Hikes
Tagged Bay Area, California, Coastal Trail, Eagle's Point, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, historic, labyrinth, Lands End, Mile Rock Beach, Mile Rock Lookout Trail, Pacific Ocean, Painted Rock, San Francisco, Sutro Baths
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Top 10 Hikes in 2017
2017 is nearly in the books, and it’s been a banner year for Live and Let Hike. Viewership reached new heights (roughly 85,000 and 167,000 page views in 2017), and I added 76 new posts this year that covered hikes, … Continue reading
Posted in Acadia National Park, California, Dolly Sods Wilderness, Easy Hikes, George Washington National Forest, Maine, Maryland, Moderate Hikes, Monongahela National Forest, Redwood National & State Parks, South Mountain State Park, Strenuous Hikes, Virginia, West Virginia
Tagged Acadia, Acadia Mountain, Beech Cliff Trail, best hikes, Big Schloss, Blackbird Knob, California, Dolly Sods, Fern Canyon, George Washington National Forest, Maine, Monongahela National Forest, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, Prairie Creek Trail, Stout Grove, The Beehive, Tibbet Knob, top 10 hikes, Virginia, West Virginia
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Sentinel Cave (Lava Beds National Monument, CA)
Sentinel Cave is the longest of the “easy” caves in California’s Lava Beds National Monument, as well as one of the only lava tubes in the park with multiple entrances. Inside the cave, the roughly 2/10 mile traversed by hikers … Continue reading
Posted in California, Easy Hikes, Lava Beds National Monument
Tagged California, cave, Lava Beds, lava tube, loop hike, Lower Sentinel Cave, Sentinel, Sentinel Cave, Upper Sentinel Cave
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Golden Dome Cave (Lava Beds National Monument, CA)
Unlike limestone caves, lava tubes are usually characterized by their drab, colorless interior. Not so with Golden Dome Cave, which sports shiny ceilings, made possible by tiny bacteria that give the lava tube a golden sheen. Golden Dome Cave is … Continue reading
Posted in California, Lava Beds National Monument, Moderate Hikes
Tagged California, cave, Golden Dome, Golden Dome Cave, Lava Beds, lava tube
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Skull Cave (Lava Beds National Monument, CA)
Lava tubes, cavities in the earth once filled with flowing lava, are the principal attraction of northern California’s Lava Beds National Monument, which boasts the greatest concentration of them in the United States. Reaching as wide as 60 feet in … Continue reading
Posted in California, Lava Beds National Monument, Uncategorized
Tagged California, cave, Lava Beds, lava tube, natural bridge, Skull Cave
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Stout Grove Loop (Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, CA)
Once one of the area’s best kept secrets, Stout Grove in California’s Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park is now one of California’s most popular redwood groves. Even the crowds cannot ruin the beauty, however, of this cathedral-like forest, a dense … Continue reading
Yurok Loop Trail (Redwood National Park, CA)
Although sans redwoods, the short Yurok Loop Trail in California’s Redwood National Park features terrific seaside vistas and an ecologically diverse environment along the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Named for the Native American tribe that once predominated in this … Continue reading
