Wildcat Canyon and Tilden Regional Parks

129 Trails 472 POIs 4 Peaks 4 Campsites 48 Picnic Sites 9 Viewpoints
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Description

Wildcat Canyon Regional Park is a 2,429-acre (983 ha) East Bay Regional Parks District park located within the city limits of Richmond in Contra Costa County in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. It includes a portion of Wildcat Canyon as well as a portion of the adjoining San Pablo Ridge, and is directly connected to the more heavily used Tilden Regional Park. Tilden Regional Park, also known as Tilden Park or Tilden /ˈtɪldən/, is a 2,079-acre (841 ha) regional park in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. It is between the Berkeley Hills and San Pablo Ridge. Its main entrance is near Kensington, Berkeley, and Richmond. The park is contiguous with Wildcat Canyon Regional Park. The park contains numerous trails, providing facilities for hiking, horseback riding and bicycling. While most of the trails are dog-friendly. Dogs are not permitted in the Tilden Nature Area to the north of the park. Some of the main trails include: The Tilden Nature Area is the northern, undeveloped region of the park. It is a 740-acre preserve with 10 miles of hiking trails. These trails include a climb to Wildcat Peak and a trail and wooden boardwalk around Jewel Lake. Nimitz Way, a four-mile-long (6 km) paved trail (named after Admiral Chester W. Nimitz) that begins at Inspiration Point on the eastern edge of the park and heads north along the ridge of the hills, crossing into Wildcat Canyon Regional Park about two miles (3 km) in and ending at a peak above El Sobrante. Nimitz Way is very popular with hikers, runners and bicyclists, in part because it is paved and not very steep. From Nimitz Way there are excellent views of the San Francisco Bay to the west, EBMUD’s San Pablo & Briones Reservoirs, along with Mt. Diablo to the east. Unknown to most of the folks who travel this trail, the two-mile section that is in Wildcat Canyon Regional Park was a Nike missile base which was decommissioned in the 1970s. Today there are few signs of the missile silos and military housing that used to populate these hills.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Ajax Lane
  • American Discovery Trail
  • Arroyo Trail
  • Atwell Road
  • Bay Area Ridge Trail
  • Beau Rivage
  • Belgum Trail
  • Bernhard Avenue
  • Big Springs Trail
  • Bonitas Gate Trail
  • Brook Road
  • Clark Boas Trail
  • Columbia Walk
  • Conlon Trail
  • Crescent Park Path
  • Curran Trail
  • El Toyonal
  • Fire Trail No 3
  • Fred Herbert Path
  • Golf Course Trail
  • Greenridge
  • Grizzly Peak Trail
  • Havey Canyon Trail
  • I-80 Bikeway
  • Inspiration Trail
  • Jewel Lake Trail
  • La Honda Avenue
  • Lake Anza Trail
  • Laurel Canyon Road
  • Laurel Canyon Trail
  • Laurel Loop Regional Trail
  • Laurel Loop Trail
  • Lone Oak Drive
  • Loop Road
  • Lower Big Springs Trail
  • Lower Packrat Trail
  • Lupine Trail
  • Marin Avenue
  • Meadows Canyon Trail
  • Memory Trail
  • Mezue Trail
  • Mineral Springs
  • Mokelumne Coast to Crest Trail
  • Nimitz Way
  • Oil Well Trail
  • Old Nimitz Way
  • Old San Pablo Trail
  • Orinda Connector Trail
  • Oursan Trail
  • Path #8
  • Peak Trail
  • Pine Tree Trail
  • Quarry Trail
  • Redwood Trail
  • Rifle Range Road
  • San Pablo Ridge Trail
  • Seaview Trail
  • Selby Trail
  • Shasta Road
  • Spruce Street
  • Stoddard Path
  • Sylvan Trail
  • Tower Trail
  • Upper Big Springs Canyon Trail
  • Upper Jordan Fire Trail
  • Upper Packrat Trail
  • Vista Heights Road
  • Vistamont Trail
  • Vollmer Peak Trail
  • Wildcat Creek Trail
  • Wildcat Gorge Trail
  • Wildcat Peak Trail
  • Ye Olde School Trail

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Acacia
  • Appian Way:#4200
  • Arlington Av:Highland Blvd
  • Arlington Av:Rincon Dr
  • Arlington Blvd:#6153
  • Arlington Blvd:#6241
  • Arlington Blvd:Alta Vista Dr
  • Arlington Blvd:Aqua Vista Rd
  • Arlington Blvd:Bernhard Av
  • Arlington Blvd:Brewster Dr
  • Arlington Blvd:Cypress Av
  • Arlington Blvd:Del Monte St
  • Arlington Blvd:Don Carol Dr
  • Arlington Blvd:Elm Av
  • Arlington Blvd:Lamm Ct
  • Arlington Blvd:Madera Dr
  • Arlington Blvd:Moeser Ln
  • Arlington Blvd:Olive Av
  • Arlington Blvd:Patterson Cir
  • Arlington Blvd:Rifle Range Rd
  • Arlington Blvd:Rosalind Av
  • Arlington Blvd:Solano Av
  • Arlington Blvd:Zinn St
  • Arlington Market
  • Bay Area Ridge Trail
  • Beloit Av:Grizzly Peak Blvd
  • Big Springs
  • Briones Valley Viewpoint
  • Brook
  • Buckeye
  • Camp Alvarado
  • Camp Bay
  • Camp Buckeye
  • Camp Herms BSA
  • Canon Dr & Enrivonmental Center
  • Canon Dr & Pony Rides
  • Canon Dr:Environmental Center
  • Canon Dr:Pony Rides
  • Carousel
  • Central Park Dr:Lake Anza
  • Central Park Dr:Wildcat Canyon Rd
  • East Richmond Heights
  • Elder
  • Environmental Information Center
  • Gate (EBMUD)
  • Gillespie Youth Camp
  • Golden Gate Live Steamers
  • Grizzly Peak
  • Grizzly Peak Blvd:#1411
  • Grizzly Peak Blvd:Arcade Av
  • Grizzly Peak Blvd:Avenida Dr
  • Grizzly Peak Blvd:Creston Rd (South-East Jctn)
  • Grizzly Peak Blvd:Forest Ln
  • Grizzly Peak Blvd:Hill Rd
  • Grizzly Peak Blvd:Latham Ln
  • Grizzly Peak Blvd:Marin Av
  • Grizzly Peak Blvd:Muir Way
  • Grizzly Peak Blvd:Shasta Rd
  • Grizzly Peak Blvd:Stevenson Av
  • Grizzly Peak Blvd:Sunset Ln
  • Hitching Post
  • Indian Camp
  • Inspiration Point
  • Inspiration Point parking area
  • Island
  • Kenyon Av & Trinity Ave
  • Kenyon Av:Trinity Av
  • Lake Anza Trail
  • Lake View Picnic Area
  • Laurel
  • Little Farm
  • Lone Oak
  • Lower Packrat Trail
  • Marin Avenue
  • May Rd:Bruno Rd
  • May Rd:Laurel Ln
  • Mc Bryde Av:Arlington Blvd
  • Mc Bryde Av:Marin Av
  • Mc Bryde Av:Ralston Av
  • Meadows
  • Mineral Springs Picnic Area
  • New Woodland Group Camp
  • Old San Pablo Trail
  • Olinda Rd:#5481
  • Olinda Rd:Sherwood Forest Baptist Church
  • Olinda Rd:Wendy Ln
  • Orchard
  • Oursan Trail
  • Padre
  • Purdue Av & Kenyon Av
  • Purdue Av:Beloit Av
  • Purdue Av:Kenyon Av
  • Quarry Picnic Area
  • Redwood Valley Railway
  • Rotary Peace Grove
  • Rotary Peace Grove Overlook
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:#3905
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:#4231
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:#4670
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:#5023
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:#5030
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Appian Way
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Bank Of America
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Bristlecone Dr
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Clark Rd
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Creekside Ct
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:El Portal Dr
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Greenridge Dr
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Hillcrest Rd
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Jodie Ln
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Lois Ln
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Milton Dr
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Oak Creek Rd
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Pheasant Ln
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Princeton Plaza
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Terri Ann Ln
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Trailer Ct
  • San Pablo Dam Rd:Valley View Rd
  • Shasta Rd:Grizzly Peak Blvd
  • Shasta Rd:Miller Av
  • Space Sciences Lab/MSRI
  • Spillway
  • Spruce St:Grizzly Peak Blvd
  • Stream
  • Tilden Park Merry-Go-Round
  • Vollmer Peak
  • Whistle Stop
  • Wildcat Canyon Rd:Brazillian Building
  • Wildcat Gorge Trail
  • Wildcat Peak
  • Wildcat View Group Camp
  • William Rust Summit

Copyright

The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial imagery available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Wesman83 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tilden_march.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).