Where are good mountain bike trails in the San Francisco Bay area?

Question

If you could also give detailed directions as well as good times to go so as to avoid crowds that would also be appreciated.

Answer 1

Try this.
Click on "No - Limited Access" if you don't want to pay.

Answer 2

Marin does have a lot of awesome trails (mountain biking comes from Marin). I used to go to Jack London State Park in Glen Ellen and Annadell (?) near Santa Rosa. They always had nice trails with a lot of variety.

Answer 3

only how tight is your budget? there are a form of factors interior the SF Bay area that are not overrun through gangs, homeless, etc, yet for the most area they're top-income factors. Almaden is tremendous. that is form of like in case you moved to the midwest or the agricultural mountain states, in case you bypass right into a low income area there, probability is you'd be next door to a meth-head. verify community crime data on the information superhighway.

Answer 4

Marin County, north of SF. A huge portion of the county is public open space of one jurisdiction or another. The Marin County Watershed District land north of Mt Tamalpais is a hilly, heavily forested area (public) that is supposedly the birthplace of the mountain bike.

Answer 5

See link for a list...it seems to take a while to load. I've used this to find some gems in my area. Unfortunately I could only narrow it down to the entire state. You'll have to drill deeper to find what you are looking for.

Answer 6

There are so many. You won't be disappointed.. East bay regional park trails, bay trails, Mt. Tam has trails too..

Answer 7

Three that I personally know of are
Lake Chabot (in castro valley--just east of hayward)
Tilden Park (berkeley)
Mount Tamalpias(careful here---they give speeding tickets to cyclists...seriously.)

Answer 8

At park Persidio there are many bikers there who would give u a tour