OK, my friends! Tomorrow, June 1st, is the first day of 30 Days Wild! What is 30 Days Wild, you ask? It’s a thing (movement? experience? challenge?) that was started by The Wildlife Trusts, in the United Kingdom. The goal is to get outside in some kind of wildness (totally subjective and open to interpretation)…
I have lived in the Bay Area for a long time– over 20 years, in fact. And until fairly recently (5 years ago?), I had no idea Hood Mountain Regional Park existed. If you haven’t explored Hood Mountain, I highly recommend you get on that. Today’s post is on a more focused part of Hood…
Recently, the San Francisco Chronicle came out with a list of the Bay Area’s 50 best campsites. Uvas Canyon County Park came in at #35, just after Half Moon Bay State Beach and just before Butano Redwoods’ Trail Camp. I’d probably rank it higher, given our experience last weekend. Why Uvas Canyon County Park? It’s…
Sobrante Ridge Regional Preserve is the best little hiking spot you’ve never heard of. If you’re not a) obsessed with visiting all the East Bay Regional Parks, b) trying to complete the Bay Area Ridge Trail or c) a neighbor of the preserve, it’s unlikely it was on your radar. And yet, I would argue…
Let me begin by saying this is a totally non-sponsored post. Teton Sports did not ask me to talk about this incident at all. But I’m going to share it with you anyway, because it has made me appreciative of them as a company and I think more people should know positive stories about companies.…
Get ready for an onslaught of new camping posts, dear readers. As we said in the last post, it’s Camping Season 2016, and due to some job-related camping and then adding in some personal trips, this site is going to feature CAMPING ALL THE TIME for the next few weeks. I’m personally convinced that the…
Welp, friends. This is it. Camping Season 2016 is officially upon us. If you are a resident of the Bay Area, you also know that the weather last weekend was delightful and really encouraged getting outdoors. We kicked off Camping Season 2016 with a night in Bothe-Napa State Park and we’re pretty sure it should…
OK. This is not a post about becoming a camping champion with all the latest gear, or about becoming a weeks-long camping champion. This post is about becoming a camping family who can drop the cares of the work week on a dime, leap into the car and head out for some microadventuring on a…
Remember back in December, when we talked about the King Tides, and how YOU, a lowly citizen with no scientific training at all, could contribute to a science project? (Because, #CitizenScience!) Soon, it gets even better: you can contribute to a science project without ever leaving your neighborhood AND show some Bay Area Pride! Mark…
For Spring Break, Bay Area Families Outside took a field trip to the North Coast of California! We recognize that this is not considered the Bay Area, but it’s close enough that it’s a reasonable long weekend trip for Bay Area families. We started our trip with the intention of camping at Patrick’s Point State…
Bay Area Families Outside 