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Best Hikes With Children San Francisco Bay Area

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This seems to be a great book for giving you ideas of where to go hiking with your kids. But the user should beware that as far as
I can tell, the information is at least 10 years out of date. I have gone on three of the hikes so far and they were all incorrectly described in the book. The first hike (Lookout Loop) described the parking lot to start from. But it turned out that the actual parking lot was CLOSED to the public and could only be used if you had previously made a group reservation. So we had to park on a twisty mountain road and walk to the closed parking lot. On another hike, the Palo Alto Baylands, the hike entails a long walk out on the catwalks over the marsh. As a local resident, I know for a fact that those catwalks have been closed to the public for AT LEAST ten years!! The descriptions of Shoreline Park are also out of date in that they describe duck blinds that have been gone for at least several years. Given all of this, I find the phrases "entirely updated" and "completely revised" that are on the back of the book very misleading. This is a good book to give you ideas of where to go. But be prepared for surprises because you are reading a hike guide from the early 90's (or even earlier)!

I love going hiking with my children, so I got this guide. I was only able to do the Memorial Park and Henry Coe hikes with this--and I think that was due to the fact that I had other information on how to get there.

The directions to Skyline-Sanborn had the wrong turn, and put us in a completely wrong part of the park (which we hiked anyway on our own.) But today, I'm just putting the book in the garbage. I thought we'd like to do the Saddle/Bog Trails Loop hike in San Bruno. The directions say to take the Guadalupe Canyon Parkway west from US 101. There is no Guadalupe Canyon Parkway, and I took two different exits near what looked like San Bruno Mountain to see if I could find it. It was a waste of time (and gas.) The guide's worthless if it can't get you to where you want to be.