The BAWT Mobiles Come to Town
The BAWT mobiles are in town, and they mean serious wilderness business. With the help of City Car Share and the local nonprofit Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT), Bay Area...
Exploration
Around the Bend
Put your boat or raft in the river above Healdsburg and follow a wild, green thread flowing through an altered landscape.
Dinosaur Plants
While living dinosaurs are nowhere to be found in California these days, you can see recognizable descendants of plants that lived with them--right here in the modern Bay Area.
Backyard Boarding House
Leafcutters, diggers, carpenters, and masons… At first glance that may look like a directory for building contractors. Add the miners, cuckoos, and sweats and what you have isn't a list...
A Bayshore Getaway in Silicon Valley
Stevens Creek is a 20-mile stream that originates on Black Mountain at the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains before cutting through the heart of Silicon Valley and out into...
Footloose and Car-Free in the Bay Area
Make getting there part of the adventure with our update of the region's transit-accessible trails. From backpacking on Mount Diablo to strolling the Bay shore in Mountain View, there are...
Overnight on Mount Diablo
It has been over a year now since I took the plunge into car-free existence. The one-way, overnight backpack trip up and over Mount Diablo that I took last fall...
Transit to Trails Map
Download our updated map showing transit connections to protected parks and open spaces all over the San Francisco Bay Area.
Up and Down at Point Reyes
If the Sweet Lumber Company had had its way, the landscape of Inverness Ridge in West Marin would be more tree farm than forest. In the 1950s the company built...
Mulch Madness
Google "mulch" and you'll find university websites from Alaska to Florida touting mulch as one of the most environmentally friendly and effective tools for improving a backyard garden. But that...
