From Mild to Wild
A regional effort to create a regional Bay Water Trail is bearing fruit with new funding for an integrated program of boat launches, education programs, and more. It’s time to...
Exploration
Letter From the Publisher: On Porpoises, the Lure of the Bay, and a New Water Trail
There’s nothing like getting out on the Bay at water level. And now that harbor porpoises are again venturing daily inside the Golden Gate, there’s never been a better time...
Three Peaks, One Day, No Car
This coming weekend, you could count yourself among an elite few folks who use only bicycles and mass transit to summit the Bay Area's three major peaks in one day....
Getting Outside in Your Golden Years
When Anne Ferguson moved to the Bay Area 10 years ago, she was amazed by the region's rich outdoor resources. And, remembering how her grandparents taught her to love the...
Kids Clean Up and Make Art at Ocean Beach
How do you get 500-plus kids to sit still on the beach? Tell them a helicopter is about to fly overhead and take their collective photograph, and that by the...
Kids’ Ocean Day: Cleaning Beaches and Making Art
On May 19 thousands of kids from San Diego to Vancouver will gather on seven West Coast beaches to pick up trash and create impressive aerial art. These kids are...
Get on the Bus!
Butterflies fluttering through the Mission, mice nibbling their way down Sansome, pelicans gliding up Geary. Starting today and tomorrow, four MUNI buses will make a splash with Endangered Species, an...
A Classroom in the Woods
The East Bay Regional Park District is not just the nation's largest and oldest regional park district. It also has what’s likely the largest corps of professional naturalists of any...
Butterflies in the Fog on a Peak in San Francisco
San Bruno Mountain State and County Park. Trail: 3.6 mi, 705 ft elevation gain, loop
Rebecca Solnit on Marin’s Mount Burdell
Mount Burdell Open Space Preserve in Novato. Trail: 3.4 mi, 610 ft elevation gain, loop
