Briones Hike East Bay
Briones East Bay Hike
April 12, 2011
Hidden,
in plain sight, is one of the East Bays most enriching hikes.
Briones Regional Park offers long, ambling walks through grassy
rolling hills, spotted with oak trees. There are lovely views of
distant towns, landmarks, and neighboring parkland. This walk
also has pleasant surprises of lagoons and contrasting dense
damp woodland. Hawks, eagles, and turkey vultures soar and
circle above the canyons. Black-tailed deer love to munch on
brush in the deeper canyons. There are several small creeks
lined with ferns and shrubs, and patches of sun-loving
wildflowers grow along most of the trails. The landscape changes
seasonally from summer gold to wintergreen, and gives you a
taste of California's Spanish ranch past. If you want to be
surrounded by ground squirrels, red-trail hawks, coyotes,
coast-range-fence lizards, California poppies, lupines, and
Californian natural beauty this is the hike for you.
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