Claremont Canyon & UC-Berkeley Hikes

The Big "C," UC-Berkeley, January 2024 When Berkeley residents talk about walking on the “fire roads,” chances are they are referring to the network of hiking and biking trails in Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve or on adjacent lands owned by the University of California, Berkeley. Together this milieu of paths crisscrosses woody and scrubby terrain …

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Hikes in Tilden Regional Park (South)

Vollmer Peak Trail, Tilden Regional Park, September 2021 Note: This is part three of a three-post effort to chronicle short day hikes in the East Bay’s Tilden Regional Park. The focus of this post is on the central part of the park, namely the sections located roughly between the Tilden Nature Area to the north …

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