Joaquin Miller Park Hike

We enjoyed the hike last week with Clay and Carol, so we thought we'd head out to do a similar one close to home. The East Bay Regional Park District has over 500 miles of trails within 30 minutes drive of our house. Today's hike was into the Joaquin Miller Park area only 5 miles from our house.

We park at the entrance to the dog park area, walk up the road only a few feet, get on the trail and drop immediately down to the creek. You can see the loop we took in the picture to the left. What a nice hike through the redwoods!







The trail is absolutely beautiful, open trail and sunshine followed by travel through dense redwood forests. The whole hike too around 2 hours and was up and down the whole way. Deb and I were both thankful that we brought our hiking poles along as the downhill / steeper parts of the trail are also covered by pine needles, loose gravel and rocks.

One watch out for this trail is the steepest downhill part, Cinderella Trail, is also a favorite mountain bike trail. It's steep, narrow, rutted, rooted, and rocked and the mountain bikers are barely under control as they come down. It's a challenge to stay out of their way without getting into poison oak, stinging nettles, or other nasties. Al-in-all, a great way to start a Sunday.