Trails and Access

The Parks Foundation directs funding toward improving access and maintaining trails for all park users. Scroll down to see how this manifests in your San Mateo County Parks.

Accessible Trails

Ensuring that all park visitors, regardless of ability, have access to our wonderful park resources is vitally important. This has included improving access:

• into San Bruno Mountain from the Crocker Gate entrance and neighboring community,
• at the program gathering space adjacent to the Memorial Park Visitor Center,
• around Sanchez Adobe so students of all abilities may enjoy the resources available at this historic site while on school field trips. Many thanks to the Bothin Foundation for their support on this project.

Bicycles

In addition to supporting the year-round Bicycle Sunday events, the Parks Foundation has made it possible for bike fix-it stations to be installed at key points around your park system; from Coyote Point to Mirada Surf to the newest one available at Cowell-Purisima Trail. We also funded a bike fix-it station at CAL FIRE’s Skylonda Fire Station 58 near Alice’s Restaurant off Skyline Blvd., ensuring bicyclists in the area have a safe place to fix and maintain their bikes.

The Parks Foundation has also helped maintain the Quarry Park pump track by providing the needed soil to replenish the track after heavy rains threatened its integrity.

Equestrian Trails

Supporting San Mateo County’s equestrian community by contributing to the rebuild and repair of key equestrian trail connections is important to the Parks Foundation. In recent years this has included providing support for:

• Alambique Trail in Wunderlich Park after the old trail was washed out during a winter storm
• Clarkia and Serpentine Trails at Edgewood Preserve
• Greer Road Bridge/ Kings Mtn Trail in Huddart Park (currently underway)
• Lawler Bridge on the west side of 280, a connection point to San Mateo County Parks
• Towne Creek Bridge in Pescadero Creek County Park which had been weakened due to erosion

Trail Signs

With support from REI Co-op, the Parks Foundation ensured the creation of new trail signs throughout the San Mateo County Parks system. The signs offer more information in terms of distance to the next trailhead, trail difficulty and nearby points of interest. Our favorite part? They are numbered, which corresponds to numbers on your park map so you can quickly find your location.