A journey through a nearby landscape that can seem farther off and stranger than the High Sierra.

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A journey through a nearby landscape that can seem farther off and stranger than the High Sierra.
Hipcamp, a company founded in 2013 to improve the reservation process for public parks nationwide, is now facilitating camping on private land.
GGNRA Superintendent Christine Lehnertz looks at the challenges and opportunities unique to the national park in San Francisco’s backyard.
Publisher David Loeb traces the roots of his attachment to nearby nature — and why he started a magazine about it.
Islais Creek Park is the first official San Francisco site on the San Francisco Bay Area Water Trail.
Northern California naturalist David Lukas’ latest book encourages people to “take back” nature by creating a new lexicon for natural phenomena.
A reservation system for the popular redwood grove is coming in 2017. Until then, the Park Service urges residents to stay away.
A kayaker explores the newly restored and now-open tidal marsh at Cullinan Ranch in the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
Perched atop the windward western side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, Russian Ridge offers spellbinding views and a grove of monumental, centuries-old oaks.
Publishing icon and Bay Nature co-founder Malcolm Margolin will receive a special award for his invaluable contributions to Bay Nature and the cultural life of the Bay Area.