I will introduce San Francisco Bay area Hiking Trails, through these series of posts. This is Eighth post of this series. In this post I will take you to Mountain View/Palo Alto, CA, Adobe Creek Loop Trails, which is part of Bay Trail. Interestingly Bay Trail is a planned 500-mile walking and cycling path around the entire San Francisco Bay running through all nine Bay Area counties, 47 cities, and across seven toll bridges. So in this hike I am just scratching the surface of Bay trail!
All pictures in this post are shot with Pixel 3.
Adobe Creek Loop Trail is around 5.5 mile long and reasonably flat, it is multipurpose, meant for hiking, cycling, jogging, dog walking and wheel chair friendly too. Here is a screen shot of trail in Google Maps. Highlighted path is Adobe Creek Loop Trail
Here is shot at the entrance of the trail where I started hiking. This entrance is located at the intersection of San Antonio Rd and Terminal Blvd. In fact this is back yard of Mountain View Google Head Quarters!
There is also a restroom located at the entrance.
Below is a shot of the Adobe Creek Trail head. It starts with Charleston slough on the right and Soap pond on the left. So pretty much through out the hike you have body of water next to the trail.
This trail is bird watchers heaven, specially early in the morning you can see so many birds.
Shot of Charleston slough, right next to the trail.
Shot of a fellow hiker and few slow moving ducks on the trail!
Shot of few joggers passing by!
As I mentioned above this is a bird watchers paradise. Here is a collage of shot of birds.
Zooming in this picture will indicate different types of birds which show up in this area!
On the trail you come across few interesting spots, including man made art. This place is known as ‘The Bowl’ Bicyclists can practice jumps in the bowl. There is also soft mud in the center!
Another shot of ‘The Bowl’
Picture below shows few man made arts you come across on this trail. I missed the chevorons, but you can see pictures of ‘The Pole Field’ and ‘Wind Wave’ below.
Shot of ‘Pole Field’ which is in Byxbee Park.
Here is a shot of ‘Wind Wave’ art!
Shot of the trail and slough!
In my hike last part of trail runs right next to Freeway 101. Here is another art piece on the trail. The stainless-steel cycling sculpture was created by artist James Moore, this is Bill Bliss Sculpture.
In fact Bill Bliss, who died in 2005, advocated for the scenic, 500-mile bike trail that was planned to encircle the San Francisco and San Pablo bays.
Here is some stats from hike, I think I was moving slowly :), since I stopped at several places to take many pictures!
