Where would you go?

Without further adieu, here are 49 super places to go outside in the Bay Area (in alphabetical order):

1. Albany Bulb – Albany
2. Angel Island
3. Annadel State Park
4. Ano Nuevo State Park
5. Batteries to Bluffs Trail in Presidio
6. Berkeley Marina
7. Big Basin State Park
8. Bothe Napa State Park
9. Brannan Island State Park
10. Briones Regional Park
11. Butano State Park
12. Cascade Falls
13. China Camp
14. Claremont Canyon – Berkeley
15. Coyote Hills Regional Park
16. Dipsea Trail
17. Golden Gate Bridge to the Cliff House
18. Golden Gate Park
19. Guadalupe River Park & Gardens
20. Henry Cowell State Park
21. Hidden Villa
22. Joaquin Miller Park
23. Joseph Grant Park
24. La Selva
25. Lands End
26. Lighthouse Field
27. Montclair Railroad Trail
28. Mount Diablo
29. Mount Sutro Open Space Preserve
30. Mount Tamalpais
31. Muir Beach – Marin
32. Muir Woods
33. Natural Bridges
34. New Brighton
35. Ocean Beach
36. Ohlone Wilderness Trail
37. Point Pinole Regional Shoreline
38. Redwood Regional Park
39. Rush Ranch
40. Samuel P Taylor State Park
41. San Bruno Mountain
42. Seacliff – Santa Cruz
43. Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve
44. Stevens Creek Trail – San Jose
45. Stinson Beach
46. Sugarloaf Ridge State Park
47. Tennessee Valley – Marin
48. Tilden Park
49. Wildcat Canyon Regional Park

Have you been to these places? What’s missing from this list? Tell us on Facebook and Twitter.

We asked our friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter for their favorites and this is what we heard:

1. Annadel State Park
2. Batteries to Bluffs Trail in Presidio
3. Cascade Falls
4. China Camp
5. Dipsea Trail
6. Golden Gate Bridge to the CliffHouse
7. Guadalupe River Park & Gardens
8. Joaquin Miller Park
9. Joseph Grant Park
10. La Selva
11. Lands End
12. Lighthouse Field
13. Montclair Railroad Trail
14. Mount Diablo
15. Mount Sutro Open Space Preserve
16. Mt. Tamalpais
17. Muir Woods
18. Natural Bridges
19. New Brighton
20. Ocean Beach
21. San Bruno Mountain
22. Seacliff
23. Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve
24. Stevens Creek Trail
25. Tilden Park

What’s missing? Where are you going this weekend? Tell us here in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.

The Boys & Girls Club of El Sobrante met Transit & Trails in the spring of 2012. Since then they have taken over 200 kids into nature – including Miller Knox and Point Pinole Regional Parks – using Transit & Trails to plan their trips. These pictures are from Instagram and we’re inspired!

 What if taking the bus was that awesome?

Why you ask? Because he and some friends went on an awesome bike camping trip over Labor Day weekend and he shared his story with us. Read his story here.

And just in case you haven’t been bike touring before, or bike camping, check out the GoPro video of their trip:

Thanks James for going outside and burning no carbon in the process! And thanks to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) for the donated REI gift card!

]]> http://blog.transitandtrails.org/2012/09/we-have-a-winner/feed/ 1 http://blog.transitandtrails.org/2012/09/how-many/ http://blog.transitandtrails.org/2012/09/how-many/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:00:19 +0000 tntwp-admin http://blog.transitandtrails.org/?p=525 More...]]> How many hours this week were you inside? How many hours were you sitting in a chair at a desk? How many times did you look at a computer, TV, phone or some other screen? How many bags of chips, ice cream cones, and candy bars did you eat?

Take the Transit & Trails Challenge this weekend and get outside! Then we can ask… how many miles did you walk? How many vistas did you see? How many trees did you find shade or shelter under? How many birds did you hear? How many times did you laugh? How many times were your surprised?

Use Transit & Trails to get moving and get outside. Afterwards, tell us a story about your time out in nature. Like this one:

And enter to win!

Two people will be randomly selected to win $100 gift cards from REI. That’s right! To win, you must:

1. Be between the ages of 15-25
2. Take a bus, ferry, train, or some other form of public transportation to get outside.
3. Write a story on the Transit & Trails website (on the page of the trip or trailhead or campground you went to)
4. Have gone on this trip yourself at some point. It doesn’t necessarily have to be this weekend.

Contest closes at 9am on Tuesday, September 18. Winners will be announced on Wednesday, September 19.

Ready? Go!

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Thanks to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission for giving us goodies to give to you like the REI gift cards. There are more. Stay tuned. Questions can be sent to annie at openspacecouncil dot org.

What a fantastic Thursday it was for staff that went on their very first Staff and Family Outing courtesy of Contra Costa County Spare the Air Resource Team, County Connection, and Transit and Trails. With walking shoes, backpacks, and water bottles in hand, staff members walked to the Concord BART station, traveled on BART to Lafayette, and then walked to the Reservoir. The goal of the outing was to strengthen personal bonds and encourage healthy, positive, recreational physical activities emphasizing team building and group interaction…mission accomplished and we had a great time doing it! One staff commented that they were surprised to find the beautiful Reservoir was only a 13 minute ride away on BART. Several of us have already made plans to head back to Lafayette in the near future to enjoy the same 2.7 mile walk around the Reservoir.

Have you used Transit & Trails to organize a group outing? We’d love to hear about it.

Intro to Bike Camping from Laura J. Lukitsch on Vimeo.

We have a soft spot for Laura because she did this video about a certain website and a certain mobile app. Ahem. But this bike camping thing – or whatever you call it – is cool.

Will you tell us more? Would you spend 5 minutes answering 9 short questions about how and why and when you go outside? We want to improve Transit & Trails and knowing this stuff will help us do that.

Take the survey

For your troubles we will be forever grateful.