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Travel and Recreation Homepage!
Bay Area Backpages - Visit my pages, once featured on TV, on travel and outdoor activities in the Bay Area. It has pages on parks, hiking, camping, biking, beaches, swimming, museums, playgrounds, views, and information about places in the Bay Area and other parts of California. There's also a technical section on scanners.
My
Bay
Trail Pages - The Bay Trail, when completed, will be a 400-mile
trail
along the shores of San Francisco Bay. Here are pictures and
descriptions of the southern Bay Trail segments from just north of SFO
to Oakland Airport, many of which
I did for the official Bay Trail Website.
Port of Redwood City Bay Trail
Guadalupe River Park and Gardens
Guadalupe River Trail: 101 to Alviso
Lake Chabot Trails and Facilities
Los Alamitos Creek, Calero Creek, Guadalupe Creek & River Trails
Santa Teresa County
Park
- Website on my favorite park in San Jose. The park covers nearly 1700
acres
in the rolling, grass-covered hills guarding the southern gateway to
the
Silicon Valley.
Y2K Update: New Views
-
Rainbows and Waterfalls
2002: Wildflowers
New for 2003: Santa
Teresa Park background wallpaper for your PC.
Friends of Santa Teresa Park -
The
volunteer organization supporting Santa Teresa County Park. Find out
what's
going on in the park and what you can do to help make it better. This
site
is updated frequently with park news, developments, and volunteer
activities.
Geocaching in
Santa Teresa Park - Geocaching is a hobby and recreational activity
that has been growing in popularity. It involves using GPS (Global
Positioning System) receivers to locate hidden "caches" whose GPS
coordinates are published on the Internet. Santa Teresa Park is a
popular place for geocaching.
Almaden Quicksilver County Park - Website on one of the Bay Area's crown jewels. This park, in the backyard of the Silicon Valley, covers almost 4000 acres, with hiking trails through rugged, wildflower-covered hills filled with historical quicksilver mining relics.
Online slideshows (wait for pages to finish loading, enable Javascript if asked, scroll to bottom, hit play button to start, stop button to stop, click on links to exit):
Outdoor Photography and Internet Publishing - Text from presentation foils for a class I gave on this subject (9/05).
Bay Area Outdoor Photography Gallery - Examples of some of my outdoor photographs, taken around the Bay Area.
Outdoor Photography Class Powerpoint presentation (4/2007, 21 MB)
Edgewood County Park - Spring 2001 pictures of the trails and wildflowers at Edgewood County Park in Redwood City, one of the best places in the Bay Area for wildflower viewing.
Portola State Park and Vicinity - Pictures and information about beautiful redwood-shaded Portola State Park and nearby parks in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
UCSB Summer - Pictures of my alma mater, UCSB, and of the beaches, parks, trails, and sights in the Santa Barbara area near the campus, taken in summer 2000.
California College Tours - information, rankings, pictures, advice, and links on Calfornia 4-year colleges and planning college tours.
The Santa Teresa Hills and the Coyote Alamitos-Canal - Pictures and descriptions of the Santa Teresa Hills in South San Jose and the Coyote Alamitos-Canal which runs below them.
Spring Lake Regional Park, Santa Rosa - (May 2001) Guide to Spring Lake Regional Park in Santa Rosa and parks and attractions in Santa Rosa and Sonoma and Napa Counties.
Ron
Horii's
Bay Area and Travel FAQS - (June 2001) Indexed archive of my
replies
to the Bay Area Backroads Message Board, with information on parks,
travel,
outdoor recreation, etc. and lots of links.
Bay Area Parks -
Another Geocities Website of mine hosting the following Web pages:
- Arastradero
Preserve - Pages on the 600-acre preserve in the foothills of the
Santa Cruz Mountains above Palo Alto.
- Coyote Creek Trail - Webpages with detailed descriptions of the Coyote Creek Trail and new developments.
Other pages I've worked with:
San Francisco Bay Trail - The official ABAG pages on the 400-mile proposed and partially-completed trail network around San Francisco Bay.
Bay Area Backroads - Web
page
for KRON's great travel program for SF and California.
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