Crockett Hills, Carquinez Regional Shoreline
161 Trails
287 POIs
1 Peak
23 Picnic Sites
2 Viewpoints
Description
Crockett Hills Regional Park is a regional park in Contra Costa County, California, just south of Crockett. opened to the public in 2006.[1] Part of the East Bay Regional Park District, it consists of 1,939 acres (7.85 km2) of rolling grasslands, wooded ravines and shoreline along the south bank of the Carquinez Strait. Its elevation ranges from 100 feet (30 m) to 800 feet (240 m) above sea level. The higher elevations offer good views of San Pablo Bay, the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta, Mount Tamalpais, and Mount Diablo. Carquinez Strait Regional Shoreline is a regional park, part of the East Bay Regional Park District system, located in northwestern Contra Costa County, California. The 500 miles (800 km) - long San Francisco Bay Trail passes through the park. Part of the Bay Area Ridge Trail also passes through the Crockett Hills area of the park. The state built the 1.7 miles (2.7 km)-long Carquinez Scenic Drive along the southern shore of the strait in 1912. Decades later, it turned the road over to Contra Costa County. Major storms and landslides in 1983 caused huge gaps in the road, forcing its permanent closure to auto traffic. Instead, the county decided to convert the abandoned road into a trail for exclusive use by hikers, joggers, cyclists and equestrians. EBRPD negotiated with Contra Costa County for nearly a decade before it reached agreement in December 2012 on an easement that allowed converting the idle roadway to a trail. Even so, it still cost about $5.5 million to install piers, drains and walls to ensure stability of the new trail. It took several years to obtain sufficient funds for this project. The new trail, which did not open for public use until the Fall of 2014, was named for former U.S. Representative George Miller (D-Martinez), who was instrumental in obtaining $3.5 million in Federal funds for the project.
Trails in the Hikepack map
- Alhambra Avenue
- Back Ranch Loop
- Bay Area Ridge Trail
- Big Valley Trail
- Black Phoebe Trail
- Bull Valley Trail
- California Riding and Hiking Trail
- California Riding and Hiking Trail (MC2CT)
- Carquinez Bridge Trail
- Carquinez Loop Overlook Trail
- Carquinez Scenic Drive
- Chorus Frog Trail
- Crockett Ranch Trail
- Eckley Pier
- Eckley Road
- Edwards Creek Trail
- Edwards Loop Trail
- Foster Street
- Franklin Ridge Loop
- Goldfinch Trail
- Hulet Hornbeck Trail
- Hulet Hornbeck Trail (MC2CT)
- Kestrel Loop Trail
- McHarry Ranch Road
- Mokelumne Trail
- Park Street
- Pickleweed Trail
- Prospect Avenue
- Rankin Park Trail
- Richardson Street
- San Francisco Bay Trail
- San Pablo Avenue
- Selby Road
- Sky Trail
- Soaring Eagle Trail
- Sugar City Trail
- Tree Frog Loop
- Two Peaks Trail
- Warep Trail
- Warren Street
- West Park Street
- Whipsnake Trail
- Windmill Trail
- Wood Rat Trail
Attractions in the Hikepack map
- 1927 Carquinez Bridge
- Albert Perry Fountain
- Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge Viewpoint
- Bull Valley Road House
- Bull Valley Staging Area
- Bush Hill
- Cafeteria
- Christie
- Crockett
- Crockett Community Swimming Ceter
- Crockett Historical Museum
- Crolona Heights
- Eckley
- Eckley Pier
- Employee Parking Lot C
- Fernandez Ranch Staging Area
- Fresh Start Cafe
- Glen Frazer
- Honey House Cafe
- John Muir National Historic Site
- Lemongrass Bistro
- Martinez
- Mint
- Muir Lodge Motel
- Nantucket
- Ozol
- Pacifica Pizza
- Patient Parking Lot A
- Pickleweed Trail
- Port Costa
- Port Costa Post Office
- Quality Inn
- Rankin Aquatic Center
- Safeway
- Selby
- Super 8
- The Burlington Hotel
- The Dead Fish
- Tree Frog Loop
- US Post Office
- Valona
- Visitor Parking Lot D
- Wallgreens
- Water Wise
- Windmill Trail
Copyright
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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 ©Federico Pizano https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carquinez_Regional_Shoreline_-_panoramio.jpg CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
