5 Best Hiking Trails in Auburn and the Sierra Foothills, From a Waterfall-Filled Regional Park to a Century-Old Railroad Bridge
This is a genuinely different kind of hiking than our Lake Tahoe guide elsewhere in Placer County, lower elevation, Gold…
5 Best Hiking Trails Near Lake Tahoe, Placer County, From a Chain of Alpine Lakes to a 360-Degree Basin View
This guide covers Best Hiking Trails Near Lake Tahoe, Placer County’s North and West Shore, the Placer County side of…
Hiking Trails in Placer County, California
Placer County gets treated as a pass-through on the drive to Tahoe, which skips right past 350-plus miles of trail…
5 Best Waterfall Hiking Trails in Shasta County, From a Falls That Never Runs Dry to One Rediscovered in 2004
These trails are the Shasta County entries in this two-county pairing, Redding, Whiskeytown, and Burney, distinct from our Mount Shasta…
5 Best Hiking Trails Near Mount Shasta, From a Sacred Alpine Spring to a Historic Climber’s Hut
A quick geography note before anything else, since it’s worth knowing upfront: Mount Shasta itself, the town at its base,…
Best Hiking Trails Near Mount Shasta and Shasta County, California
Mount Shasta dominates this part of Northern California so completely that it’s visible from up to 100 miles away, a…
The 5 Best Hiking Trails in Napa County’s State Parks
Napa County contains three designated California State Park units: Bothe-Napa Valley State Park, Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park, and…
Hiking Trails in Napa County, California
Napa’s reputation as a wine destination is so total that most visitors never realize the valley is ringed by more…
The 5 Best Hiking Trails at Point Lobos, From a Rare Cypress Grove to a 19th-Century Whaling Cabin
Often called the “crown jewel” of the California State Park system, Point Lobos packs an outsized amount of scenery into…
The 5 Best Hiking Trails in Big Sur, From a Waterfall That Drops Onto a Private Beach to Purple Sand at Sunset
Big Sur doesn’t need much introduction, but here’s the short version for these five trails specifically: McWay Falls is the…
