Belgum Trail, Wildcat Canyon Regional Park, March 2020 The wilder and more rugged cousin to neighboring Tilden Regional Park, Wildcat Canyon Regional Park spans nearly 2,800 acres of the Berkeley Hills, San Pablo Ridge, and Wildcat Creek watershed in the East Bay. Whereas Tilden is woodier, Wildcat Canyon has more open, windswept pastures with wide-reaching …
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Wildcat Peak, Tilden Nature Area, Tilden Regional Park, May 2021 Note: This is part one 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 northern reaches of the park, mainly the section known as Tilden Nature Area. Charles Lee Tilden …
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Wildcat Peak, Tilden Regional Park, May 2021 Truly unobstructed panoramas with views in all directions are a relative rarity in the Berkeley Hills of California’s East Bay, but Wildcat Peak in Berkeley’s Tilden Regional Park offers one of them with excellent vistas of the San Francisco Bay, the Carquinez Strait, the Briones Hills, Mount Diablo, …
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