Briones Crest Trail, April 2020 Spanning 1,600 acres in the East Bay’s Contra Costa County, Briones Regional Park is a wonderland of woody valleys, rolling hilltops, and sun-soaked ridges with panoramic views of the Berkeley Hills, Carquinez Strait, Mount Diablo, and Ygnacio Valley. Once owned by a 19th century rancher, the Briones Hills are now …
Black Oak Trail, Briones Regional Park, February 2020 Note: This is part of a multi-post series chronicling the many possible day hikes in the East Bay’s Briones Regional Park, a 1,600-acre tract nestled east of the Berkeley Hills, west of Mount Diablo, and south of Martinez and Carquinez Strait. I tackled these hikes over the …
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