Hiking Edgewood Park
Jan. 23rd, 2022 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerEdgewood Park, about 15 miles away in Redwood City, has become one of our regular hiking destinations. By "regular" I mean we hike there once or twice a year. There are so many great outdoors choices in our area that we don't have to visit any one trail or park too frequently.
Edgewood is nestled in the foothills on the west edge of Redwood City. Expensive homes surround it on 3 sides; Interstate 280 is on the other side. Beyond I-280 are the coast range mountains. Despite these signs of civilization all around the park always manages to provide some degree of wilderness-y joy.
We took advantage of Saturday's pleasant 64° afternoon weather (17° C) to get in a hike at Edgewood. The small parking areas were pretty much full, and the trails were busy. But once afoot we left these things and the $5 million houses in the surrounding neighborhoods behind, enjoying the forest of Like Oak and the lush grass and clover underneath.
Our usual route through the park has us going more or less clockwise, starting with uphill switchbacks through the forested hillside. I've had a bit of asthma lately— or is is Covid?! This overlap is vexing— so this stretch felt a tad harder than it should have been. I took a puff from my asthma inhaler as we climbed.
Soon enough we broke out from the tree cover onto one of the ridges. At this level the views open up expansively. We can see out across other ridges to the north and south. To the east, the San Francisco Bay shimmers blue like a sapphire. You can't really see the Bay in the picture above... we have to climb a bit higher for that really to come into view. And climb higher, we did!
We climbed to a knob near the back side of the park. Sometimes we get this mostly area to ourselves; today it was popular with other hikers. There were 4-5 groups up here, including us. We stayed just long enough to drink in the views then moved on.
Update: Keep reading in part 2!
Edgewood is nestled in the foothills on the west edge of Redwood City. Expensive homes surround it on 3 sides; Interstate 280 is on the other side. Beyond I-280 are the coast range mountains. Despite these signs of civilization all around the park always manages to provide some degree of wilderness-y joy.We took advantage of Saturday's pleasant 64° afternoon weather (17° C) to get in a hike at Edgewood. The small parking areas were pretty much full, and the trails were busy. But once afoot we left these things and the $5 million houses in the surrounding neighborhoods behind, enjoying the forest of Like Oak and the lush grass and clover underneath.
Our usual route through the park has us going more or less clockwise, starting with uphill switchbacks through the forested hillside. I've had a bit of asthma lately— or is is Covid?! This overlap is vexing— so this stretch felt a tad harder than it should have been. I took a puff from my asthma inhaler as we climbed.
Soon enough we broke out from the tree cover onto one of the ridges. At this level the views open up expansively. We can see out across other ridges to the north and south. To the east, the San Francisco Bay shimmers blue like a sapphire. You can't really see the Bay in the picture above... we have to climb a bit higher for that really to come into view. And climb higher, we did!
We climbed to a knob near the back side of the park. Sometimes we get this mostly area to ourselves; today it was popular with other hikers. There were 4-5 groups up here, including us. We stayed just long enough to drink in the views then moved on.
Update: Keep reading in part 2!
