Hiking

2023 San Diego Living – Hikes !

2022 San Diego Living – Hikes !

Local Hikes on Public Lands

 

Distances are miles of trails hiked

Southern California

San Diego Coastal (& inland 10 miles)

  • Swing Trail by UCSD – 2 mi

  • Beacons Beach rockhounding – 1 mi

  • Annies Canyon

  • San Diego Botanic Garden – 2mi

  • Manchester Preserve – 4mi

  • Marion Bear – 3 mi

  • San Elijo Lagoon – 2mi

  • Guajome Regional Park – 2 mi

  • False Point Tidepools – 1 mi

  • Cabrillo National Monument & Tidepools- 2 mi

  • Torrey Pines & Extensions – 8 mi

  • Copper Creek Falls – 5 mi

San Diego Chaparral & North County (inland 10miles to the mountains)

  • Mission Trails – 20mi

  • Los Penasquitos River Preseve – 6 mi

  • Lopez Canyon Trail, Los Penasquitos – 5 mi

  • Mt Woodson – 8 mi

  • Bluesky Ecological Reserve – 5 mi

  • Ramona Grasslands – 6 mi

  • Oakasis, East County – 2 mi

  • Wrights Field, Alpine – 2mi

  • Daley Ranch, Escondido – 7 mi

  • Crestridge Ecological Preserve – 3 mi

  • Calaveras Volcano, Oceanside – 5 mi

  • Eagle Rock, Warner Springs – 6mi

  • Lake Hodges, Escondido – 8 mi

  • Elfin Forest – 4 mi

  • Espinosa Trail, Cleveland NF – 5 mi

  • Santa Ysabel Open Space Preserve – 5 mi

  • McGinty Mountain – 6 mi

  •  El Cajon Mountain – 7 mi

  • Agua Caliente Trail, PCT – 5 mi

  • Sycamore Canyon Preserve – 6 mi

  • Volcan Mountain – 5 mi

San Diego Mountains

  • Wooded Hill Nature Trail, Cuyamaca – 2mi

  • Hot Springs Mountain – 10 mi

  • Cuyamaca Peak – 8 mi

  • Cuyamaca Rancho State Park – 8 mi

  • Stonewall Peak, Cuyamaca – 5 mi

  • Green Valley Falls – 1 mi

  • East Mesa Green Valley loop- 7 mi

  • Monument Peak – 4 mi

  • Garnet Peak – 5 mi

  • Fry Creek Campground Trails – 5 mi

  • Mt Palomar State Park – 8 mi

Deserts

  • Fonts Point, Anza Borrego – 1 mi

  • Culp Valley, Anza Borrego – 5 mi

  • Fan Palm Oasis, Anza

  • Oasis of Mara, Joshua Tree

  • Death Valley

Los Angeles Mountains

  • Holcomb Valley, Big Bear

Northern California

Santa Cruz County and Skyline

  • Nicene Marks – 8 mi

  • West Cliff Drive – 4 mi

  • Skyline Ridge – 4 mi

East Bay

  • Blue Oak Trail in Briones – 2 mi

  • Reinhart Regional Redwoods – 6 mi

  • Mammoth Rock – 5 mi

  • Briones Open Space – 3 mi

Sierras