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Hike All of SF Post 8: Lobos Creek Valley Trail
I'm on a mission to #hikeallofsf. These are the stories of my hikes.Hike Name: Lobos Creek Valley TrailDistance: 0.8 miles round tripElevation: 50 feetDifficulty: EasyTime:< 1 hourDog Friendly: Dogs...
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Hike All of SF Post 9: Juan Bautista de Anza Trail
I'm on a mission to #hikeallofsf. These are the stories of my hikes.______________________________________________________Hike Name: Juan Bautista de Anza TrailDistance: 12 miles!Elevation:...
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Hike All of SF Post 10: Visitacion Valley Greenway
I'm on a mission to #hikeallofsf. These are the stories of my hikes.______________________________________________________Hike StatisticsDistance: 0.5 miles one wayElevation: 150 feetDifficulty:...
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Urban Hiker SF's Hiking Lovers'Holiday Gift Guide The holidays are fast approaching. If you're stumped on what gifts to get your favorite outdoors enthusiast, I've got a few ideas. I've put together a...
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Hikes for Gray and Rainy Days
So just like that, March is here and with it came El Niño in full force. It's been raining on and off for days with more rain and an even anatmospheric river(?!) hitting the city this weekend. While...
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Epic Hikes in the Bay Area: Four Trails over 500 Miles
Many of us read the book or saw the movie Wild and were inspired by Cheryl Strayed's trek along the 2,600+ mile Pacific Crest Trail. Hiking the PCT is a massive accomplishment and not surprisingly, it...
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Visiting San Francisco's Four Mosaic Stairways
San Francisco is home to four beautiful mosaic stairways, but they were all inspired by one. The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps Project (2005)The16th Avenue Tiled Steps project began in early 2003 when Sunset...
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Visit 6 National Parks — All Without Leaving San Francisco
2016 is the National Park Centennial, and this year, I was lucky enough to visit a number of national parks including Arches, Canyonlands, and Yosemite. To reach Arches and Canyonlands, we flew to Utah...
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Exploring the Dragonfly Creek Trail
I have a confession to make: sometimes I get a bored with San Francisco. I thrive on novelty, and after writing Urban Trails San Francisco, I began to feel like I had seen all that the city had to...
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Two Great Hiking Loops From the Presidio Main Post
When I first moved to San Francisco in 2007, I didn't really know what to do in the Presidio. Since that time, this neighborhood and former military fort has become a lot more interesting. A new...
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2017 Goal: Climb Every Hill in San Francisco
In 2014, I made my it my new year's resolution to hike every trail in San Francisco. After exploring the city's trails and blogging about it, my experience turned into a book deal with Mountaineers...
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The Merced Heigts Park with Two Names: Lakeview and Ashton and Orizaba...
Name: Lakeview and Ashton Mini ParkNeighborhood: Merced HeightsElevation: 515 feet March 5, 2017In our quest to climb all the hills in San Francisco, Brett and I took a five-mile walk one-way walk to...
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Four Quick Steps For Identifying Poison Oak
It's that time of year again, and poison oak leaves are sprouting out all over the Bay Area. Getting poison oak is no fun, so if you don't know what poison oak looks like, today is your day to learn!...
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Hills of San Francisco - Mint Hill
Name: Mint HillNeighborhood: Duboce Triangle/Lower Haight Elevation: 150 feet The history of Mint Hill is the history of the San Francisco Mint...or mints...there have been three in San Francisco so...
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Exploring Oakland's Redwood Regional Park
Distance: 8.7 milesElevation: 1,627 feet Time: 3.5 hours Route: https://www.strava.com/activities/1012052562The wide Stream TrailYesterday, two friends, my dog Jodie, and I headed to Redwood Regional...
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Tomales Point Trail in Point Reyes: Elk, Sun, and Sand
The Fourth of July weekend was a great time to do a day trip outside my normal stomping grounds. My friend Alex was game for an adventure, so we decided to hit up the Tomales Point Trail in Point Reyes...
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Can you walk across an entire country? Yes, yes you can. Enter: Liechtenstein.
Every year, one of my goals is to leave the US and to visit a new country. In March 2017, I was still feeling the energy behind my new year's resolutions, and wanted to take care of this goal early in...
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Two Great Hikes Near Cavallo Point and Fort Baker
Last year, I went to a wedding reception at the Cavallo Point Lodge and my boyfriend and I decided to spend the night there. The morning after the reception, we wanted to take advantage of our location...
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Mt. Umunhum—Open to the Public at Last
At a book signing for Urban Trails San Francisco in early 2017, an attendee asked me if I had heard of Mt. Umunhum. Um...unhum? Um...no.I had done a fair bit of hiking in the Bay Area to research and...
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Urban Hiker SF's 2017 Holiday Gift Guide
The holidays can be fun—or stressful—if you're trying to pick out the perfect gift for a loved one. To make your job a little easier, we at Urban Hiker SF have compiled a list of gifts for your...
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