Collage of pictures shot by LG @jayasimha78
I will introduce San Francisco Bay area Hiking Trails, through these series of posts. This is sixth post of this series. In this post I will take you back to bay area mountains near Hwy 35 Skyline Blvd.
All pictures in this post are shot with Pixel 3.
Here is the map of Skyline Ridge Preserve. Skyline ridge is very interesting place to hike, it offers varied landscape spanned over 2143 Acres. There are couple of ponds in the preserve, Horse Shoe Lake and Alpine Pond. Preserve also offers Ridge vistas and meadows. There are over 11 miles trails in the preserve.
In fact these pictures are collection of two different hikes we did.
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From Skyline Ridge Parking lot, we did Horse shoe Lake and Christmas Tree Farm trail
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From Alpine road Parking lot, we did Sunny jim trail
Trails are highlighted on the map below.
Here are few pictures from the Horse Shoe Lake Loop hike!
Picture of Trial head at Skyline Ridge Parking area.
Shot of Horse shoe lake loop trail
Another shot of trail
There is a separate wheel chair accessible parking lot.
View of Horse Shoe lake.
View from the center of Horse Shoe lake.
Another shot of the lake
We took a side trail to Christmas Tree Farm.
Mountain Biker on the trail
View of Christmas Tree Farm
Back to Horse Shoe Lake Loop Trail
Shot of a tree on the trail
Shot of the lake from the top from the loop trial.
Shot of some wild turkeys at the parking lot. We also saw a deer in the parking lot.
Here are few pictures from our 2nd hike on Sunny Jim Trail
Trail head shot
Shot of Alpine Pond and David C Daniels Nature Center
Another shot on the trail
Houses of Preserve employees
Hike continued… another variation in landscape
View from a vista point.
