Trail Maps and Hikes

Trail Center provides information and links for many city, county, regional, and state parks in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are also provide Maps and Publications.

Palo Alto residents can take advantage of Foothills Park. The Baylands Nature Preserve is maintained by Palo Alto but it is open to anyone as is the Arastradero Preserve.

The City of Mountain View provides hiking, boating, golfing, and other options at Shoreline at Mountain View.

Another excellent location for walking and hiking is Sunnyvale Baylands Park.

Great Hikes presented by Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, May 16th-May 31, 2007

The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District offers numerous hikes for you to enjoy the outdoors.  All activities are led by trained volunteer docents.  Activities are free, but some do require a reservation. For a calendar of activities from May 16th-May 31st and to learn the levels of difficulty, easy to strenous, for each activity, please see www.openspace.org and enter the calendar page under "Great Activities"  or  contact the District at 330 Distel Circle, Los Altos, CA 94022-1404, 650-691-1200, email: info@openspace.org