RidgeTrail.org
Title
Bay Area Ridge Trail
Description
As the pace of daily life grows more hectic, the Ridge Trail offers a special place where you can get away to revive and recharge your spirits while you walk, hike, run, bicycle, ride a horse, watch birds, or just enjoy the soaring vistas with family and friends. Our enjoyment today is possible thanks to a foresighted group of founders and the ongoing efforts of enthusiastic and effective advocates.
Almost twenty years ago, National Park Service Director William Penn Mott, Jr. envisioned a trail that would ring the San Francisco Bay, high on the ridge line. Although he only lived to see part of the trail completed, he inspired a dedicated grassroots effort that has made amazing progress.
Representatives of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the Greenbelt Alliance organized the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council in 1987. They hoped to preserve open space by creating managed public access to a trail along the ridge tops. This initial partnership brought together public park agencies and trails advocates from all around the region to map out a route for the Ridge Trail and establish an organization to promote its completion.
Contact
- Bay Area Ridge Trail Council
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- San Francisco CA
- US 94129-1405
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- +1.4155612595
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