Category Archives: North Bay

Steep Ravine – Matt Davis Trail Loop (Mount Tamalpais State Park, CA)

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Andrew Wojtanik

The Steep Ravine – Matt Davis Trail Loop in California’s Mount Tamalpais State Park is a longer and more popular variant of the Steep Ravine – Dipsea Trail Loop (described in an April 2015 post). Though not as expansive as … Continue reading →

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Bald Mountain Loop (Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, CA)

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Andrew Wojtanik

Towering above California’s wine country, Bald Mountain (2,729’) is the highest point in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park and one of the tallest peaks in the Mayacamas Mountains, a subset of the Coast Range in the North Bay. While the main … Continue reading →

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Coastal Trail to Tennessee Point (Golden Gate National Recreation Area, CA)

Posted on November 16, 2019 by Andrew Wojtanik

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 →

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Point Bonita Lighthouse Trail (Golden Gate National Recreation Area, CA)

Posted on October 25, 2019 by Andrew Wojtanik

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 →

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Dipsea Trail – Steep Ravine Trail Loop (Mount Tamalpais State Park, CA)

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Andrew Wojtanik

At 2,571 feet above sea level, California’s Mount Tamalpais (known affectionately by locals as “Mt. Tam”) offers splendid vistas of Marin Peninsula and the San Francisco Bay area, as well as Bolinas Bay and the Pacific Ocean to the west. … Continue reading →

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Table Rock Trail (Robert Louis Stevenson State Park, CA)

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Andrew Wojtanik

In his oft-forgotten 1883 travelogue The Silverado Squatters, Robert Louis Stevenson of Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde lore writes of a “sylvan solitude,” where “the silence was unbroken but by the great, vague voice of the wind.” … Continue reading →

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Rock Spring and Laurel Dell (Marin Municipal Water District, CA)

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Andrew Wojtanik

*The following is a guest post from my friend and old classmate, the lovely Emily Alpert! Perched on the top of Mount Tamalpais, the Rock Spring Trail meanders through meadows, chaparral, and forests. The trailhead offers sweeping views of the … Continue reading →

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