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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Sacramento By Jordan Summers

60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Sacramento by Jordan Summers


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This guide to 60 of the best hikes within an hour or so from Sacramento, California, leads to urban green spaces, scenic retreats, and old-growth forests.

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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Sacramento: Including Auburn, Folsom, and Davis by Jordan Summers

Get outdoors with this guide to 60 of the best hiking trails within an hour or so from Sacramento, California, leading you to scenic beauty.

The best way to experience Sacramento is by hiking it! Get outdoors with hiking expert Jordan Summers. Now in full color, this popular guide helps you locate and access the top hikes within 60 miles of Sactown. A perfect blend of popular routes and hidden gems, the selected trails transport you to scenic overlooks, wildlife hot spots, and historical settings that renew your spirit and recharge your body.

Enjoy the Victorian-style garden with your family at the California State Capitol Park. Go bird-watching near the Mokelumne River on the Lodi Lake Nature Trail. Challenge yourself along the China Gulch Trail—a delight for wildflower lovers. Take in the beautiful views at Hidden Falls Regional Park. With California author and outdoors enthusiast Jordan Summers offering advice about where to hike and what to expect when you get there, you’ll learn about the area and experience nature through 60 of Sac’s best hikes!

Each hike description features key at-a-glance information on distance, difficulty, scenery, traffic, hiking time, and more, so you can quickly and easily learn about each trail. Detailed directions, GPS-based trail maps, and elevation profiles help to ensure that you know where you are and where you’re going. Tips on nearby activities further enhance your enjoyment of every outing.

So whether you’re a local looking for new places to explore or a visitor to the area, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Sacramento provides plenty of options for a couple hours or a full day of adventure, all within about an hour from the city.

About Jordan Summers

Jordan Summers has had more fun sleeping on rock, snow, and dirt than any one person should be allowed. As a boy in Virginia, he would camp in the woods behind his house. Since then, he’s spent absurd amounts of time in the three major ranges and many minor ones, in forests, canyons, and deserts in every season and weather condition.

Jordan’s children were both veterans of several wilderness hikes by the age of 5. They both became llama-wranglers and guides a few years later, when their dad began leading llama treks in Oregon and the Sierra Nevada. They hiked several of the new edition’s trails with Jordan and continue to explore backcountry trails alongside him.

In 2009, Jordan solo-hiked 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) from the California-Mexico border to Echo Lake Dam. He resumed his northbound journey in 2012 and hiked into Canada that fall. In 2016 and 2017, Jordan hiked the PCT from south of Mount Whitney to the Canada border in order to update the Wilderness Press volumes of Pacific Crest Trail: Northern California and Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon & Washington.

Jordan is an alumnus of the National Outdoor Leadership School’s (NOLS) Outdoor Educator program and Wind River rock climbing.  He is a NOLS/Wilderness Medicine Institute Wilderness First Responder, and a Leave No Trace Trainer. The training and expertise gained help Jordan pursue his passion: “to help hikers of all abilities get out there, have a great time there, leave no trace there, and come home safely from there.”

Jordan and his partner, Karin, live 44 miles west of the PCT in Pioneer, California.

Table of Contents

Overview Map

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Preface

60 Hikes by Category

Introduction

Map Legend

Sacramento and Vicinity

  • Capitol Park Loop
  • Old Sacramento State Historic Park
  • Riverwalk Park
  • William Land Park Trail
  • Effie Yeaw Nature Center Trails
  • UC Davis Arboretum Trail
  • David-Covell Greenbelt

West Sacramento Valley

  • Homestead-Blue Ridge Trail
  • Blue Ridge-Fiske Peak Trail
  • High Bridge Trail
  • Judge Davis Trail
  • Redbud Trail
  • Perkins Creek Ridge Trail
  • Johnson Ridge-Gunsight Rock Trail

Delta Area

  • Grizzly Island Wildlife Area Trail
  • River Bend-Majestic Oaks Loop Trail
  • Lodi Lake Nature Trail
  • Cosumnes River Preserve Trails

Foothills South

  • China Gulch Trail
  • River of Skulls Trail
  • Big Trees North Grove Trails
  • Big Trees South Grove Trail
  • Indian Grinding Rock Loop Trails
  • Jenkinson Lake Trail

Foothills Central

  • Pioneer Express Trail
  • Avery’s Pond Trail
  • Rattlesnake Bar-Horseshoe Bar Trail
  • Sweetwater Trail
  • Monroe Ridge Trail
  • Dave Moore Nature Area Trail
  • South Fork American River-Gerle Loop Trail
  • South Fork American River Trail
  • Cronan Ranch Trails
  • Olmstead Loop Trail
  • Robie Point Firebreak Trail
  • Lake Clementine Trail
  • Confluence Trail
  • Quarry Road Trail to American Canyon Falls
  • American Canyon-Dead Truck Trail
  • Wendell T. Robie Trail
  • Ruck-A-Chucky Rapids Trail
  • Foresthill Divide Loop Trail
  • Codfish Falls Trail
  • North Fork Middle Fork American River Trail
  • Yankee Jim’s-Indian Creek Trail
  • Windy Point Trail
  • Stevens Trail West
  • Stevens Trail East
  • Green Valley Trail
  • Euchre Bar Trail to Humbug Canyon
  • American Eagle Mine Trail

Foothills North

  • Hidden Falls Trails
  • Fairy Falls Trail
  • Hardrock Trail
  • Independence Trail: East Branch
  • Independence Trail: West Branch
  • Buttermilk Bend Trail
  • Point Defiance Trail
  • Humbug Trail
  • Diggins Loop Trail

Appendices

  • Appendix A: Outdoor Shops
  • Appendix B: Map Sources
  • Appendix C: Hiking Organizations
  • Appendix D: Managing Agencies
  • Appendix E: Additional Reading

Index

About the Author

Additional information

CIN1634042387VG
9781634042383
1634042387
60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Sacramento: Including Auburn, Folsom, and Davis by Jordan Summers
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Menasha Ridge Press Inc.
2022-09-08
328
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