El Capitan's granite wall above the Merced River and meadow in Yosemite Valley, California

Walks and hikes in California

73 routes with stories of the places you pass, narrated and set to original music. Walk, run or ride them.

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California's routes cover redwood canyons, bay shoreline and high Sierra granite. Around the South Bay you can loop Rancho San Antonio, climb Black Mountain from Monte Bello or ride the Los Gatos Creek Trail to Vasona Lake. Big Basin, Henry Cowell and Purisima Creek take you under the redwoods, Wilder Ranch follows the Santa Cruz coast, and Yosemite Valley and Tuolumne Meadows carry you up into the mountains.

Along the way you'll hear about the old New Almaden mine shafts on Mine Hill, the SF Bay Discovery Site on Sweeney Ridge, the Picchetti winery up on its ridge, and the ancient redwood groves around Sempervirens Falls.

Routes73

Towns43

Distance2.5 to 26.9 km

By bike73

Towns with several routes

Each has its own page, with the routes that start nearby.

California 10 San Diego 5 Sacramento 4 Big Sur 3 Chinatown 3 Sausalito 3 West Sacramento 3 Coronado 2 Del Mar 2 Encinitas 2 Fruitridge Pocket 2 Parkside 2 San Francisco 2

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Atwater Village · Beverly Hills · Big Sur · Bonita · Brentwood · Burbank · California · Carmel-by-the-Sea · Chinatown · Coronado · Culver City · Del Mar · Echo Park · Encinitas · Fruitridge Pocket · Inglewood · Koreatown · La Jolla · La Mesa · Larchmont · Los Angeles · Malibu · Manhattan Beach · Mira Mesa · Oceanside · Parkside · Parkway · Point Reyes Station · Rosemont · Sacramento · San Diego · San Francisco · Santa Monica · Sausalito · Silver Lake · Solana Beach · Sorrento Valley · Tiburon · Universal City · Visitacion Valley · West Hollywood · West Sacramento · Willowbrook

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Walk the Point Lobos trail in Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Run the Two Rivers in Sacramento.

Walk the Zumwalt Meadow to Roaring River Falls Trail.

Run the American River Trail in Sacramento.

Walk the Bay Area Ridge Trail in Sausalito.

Walk the Buzzards Roost Trail near Big Sur.

Run the State Capitol route in Sacramento.

Run past Silver Lake Reservoir on the Echo Park route.

Run through Griffith Park in Atwater Village.

Run the L.A. River bike path in Burbank.

Run the Manhattan Beach seaside route.

Run the Carlsbad oceanfront route in Encinitas.

Walk the Congress Trail route in Sequoia National Park.

Walk Grizzly Giant past giant sequoias in Yosemite.

Run through Elysian Park in Los Angeles.

Run the Hollywood tour route through Beverly Hills.

Run the Kenneth Hahn Recreation Area route in Culver City.

Run Melrose Avenue in Larchmont.

Walk the Pfeiffer Falls trail in Big Sur.

Walk the Red Butte trail in Del Mar.

Run the Sacramento River Bike Trail in West Sacramento.

Run the Sunset Rock Trail in Sequoia National Park.

Walk the Tomales Bay Trail in Point Reyes Station.

Run the Bear Hill and Moro Rock Trail.

Run the Big Trees and Beetle Rock Trail.

Walk the Buzzards Roost Trail in Big Sur.

Walk the Congress Trail in Sequoia National Park.

Run the San Elijo State Beach bike path in Encinitas.

Run from Goldfish Point to Bird Rock in La Jolla.

Run the scenic Lake Murray route in La Mesa.

Run the seaside stretch at Zuma Beach in Malibu.

Run the Ocean Boulevard route in Coronado.

Run The Strand, a seaside route in Oceanside.

Run the Pocket Canal trail in Parkway.

Run the River Walk Trail in Sacramento.

Cycle the Solana Beach to Oceanside route, a seaside ride.

Run from AT&T Park to Vista Point in San Francisco.

Run from Crissy Field to Fort Point in Chinatown.

Run from the Golden Gate Bridge to Lands End near Sausalito.

Run the Marin Headlands scenic route near Sausalito.

Run along Ocean Beach in Parkside, a seaside route.

Run the Presidio Golden Gate trail in Chinatown.

Run through The Presidio in Chinatown, San Francisco.

Run the Seaport Village to Harbor Island route in San Diego.

Run the Sutter's Landing in Fruitridge Pocket.

Run the Sweetwater Park Trail in Bonita.

Walk the Tokopah Falls Trail in Sequoia National Park.

Run the West Sacramento River Walk in West Sacramento.

Run the William Land Park in Fruitridge Pocket.

Run the American River Levee Path in Rosemont.

Run the High Sierra and Crescent Meadow route.

Run the Hollywood Reservoir route in Universal City.

Run past Compton Creek in Willowbrook at Magic Johnson Park.

Run along Palisades Park in Santa Monica.

Run up Runyon Canyon in West Hollywood.

Run the Airport area route in San Diego.

Run the Barge Canal Trail in West Sacramento.

Run the Coronado tour route in Coronado.

Run the Huckleberry and Alta trail route.

Run Wilshire Boulevard through Koreatown.

Run the open space around Miramar Reservoir in Mira Mesa.

Cycle the Mission Bay trail in San Diego past the bay.

Run along Mission Beach in San Diego, a seaside route.

Run the River Trail through San Diego.

Run the Angel Island route from Tiburon, a scenic trail.

Run through Golden Gate Park in Parkside, a scenic route.

Run the hilly streets of Visitacion Valley, San Francisco.

Run the Torrey Pines Park road near Del Mar, a scenic route.

Run through Los Peñasquitos Canyon in Sorrento Valley.

Run Sunset Boulevard through Silver Lake.

Run the new rail-to-rail trail in Inglewood.

Run San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood.

Run The Embarcadero in San Francisco, a city route.

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