Brushy Peak Regional Preserve is a great hike in Livermore which has easy to follow loop trails and no shade. If you want an easy to moderate hiking experience with less people, the best time to come is when its cool and cloudy.
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Point Pinole Regional Shoreline
Point Pinole Regional Shoreline is a beautiful regional park with a fishing pier and rocky beach. The trail is flat and good for walking any time of the year.
Coyote Hills Regional Park
Coyote Hills Regional Park is a very popular East Bay Regional Park located in Fremont. It has beautiful views of the Bay, the marshlands, and hills. There are a lot of trails to hike on and bike thru.
Sea Ranch Chapel
The Sea Ranch Chapel is a quick stop on Highway 1 and a place to see some beautiful architecture. The grounds and the chapel were funded by local Sea Ranch residents and took nine months to construct.
Russian Gulch State Park
Russian Gulch State Park has two attractions that you don’t want to miss in Mendocino. First one is the easy Fern Canyon Trail to the 36ft waterfall and the second one is the arched Highway 1 bridge beach.
Wildflowers at Manchester State Beach
Manchester State Beach has the most coastal wildflowers I’ve ever seen on a beach. I visited in May which is prime time for the flowers to bloom. The beach is quiet and wide which makes it great for long walks and has a ton of driftwood to form forts.
Devil’s Slide Trail at Pacifica
Devil’s Slide Trail is an old portion of Highway 1 that was decommissioned for auto travel after numerous landslides and accidents. A tunnel was built instead for cars and the old portion of Highway 1 was made into a 1.3 mile trail for foot and bike traffic.
Exploring Tidepools at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve
Fitzgerald Marine Reserve’s main attraction are the tide pools where you can see crabs, sea anemone, starfish, and more. The best time to go is during low tide so you can actually walk around and look for sea creatures. Because this is a protected reserve, nothing can be collected or harmed.
Tell Time at Sundial Bridge
Sundial bridge is a part of the Turtle Bay Exploration park and is classified as is a cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge, which basically means that it is safe to walk on. The deck of the bridge is made of some sort of glass panels which I doubt you’d be able to break by jumping on it repeatedly.
Muir Woods National Monument
Muir Woods National Monument is the most famous redwood park in California. Tourists from all over the world flock here to walk the well maintained trails for all ages and look up at these gorgeous trees. This happens to be a great spot for a tree to grow because of all the fog in Marin County. This park exists thanks to a man named William Kent who preserved this area by buying the land and donating to the government.