You have to earn the privilege of enjoying a Phleger Estate hike. Just getting to the best part of it — a sublime grove of redwoods along the Raymundo and Mount Redondo trails — requires a two-mile out-and-back, either from…
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Golden Gate National Recreation Area on “Bay Area Backroads”
by tom • June 3, 2008 • 2 Comments
In case you missed it on KRON4 over the weekend, Doug McConnell’s “Bay Area Backroads” profiles the history of the Golden Gate National Recreational Area. You can watch the videos or read text of the highlights. In a way, the…
Hiking the Phleger Estate
by tom • June 2, 2008 • 3 Comments
Whoever the Phleger’s were, they had fine taste in terrain. The Phleger Estate, now safely in the hands of the National Parks Service, has some of the best trails through redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It’s very remote —…