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A short recap of our experience hiking the Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail
For more info:
– book a hike: https://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=147
– https://ridgetrail.org/
– https://ridgetrail.org/san-francisco-watershed-skylawn-trail/
– https://www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/article/Sunday-getaway-Fifield-Cahill-Ridge-Trail-12185726.php
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Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail – SFPUC
The trail is a gravel service road, with periods of loose base rock. Grades range from 0% to 21%. The steepest grade stretches 1.3 miles from Skyline Quarry ( …
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Fifield-Cahill Ridge – Bay Area Mountain Bike Rides
Fifield-Cahill Rge Trail heads northwest from the Cemetery Gate trailhead in a rough approximation of a straight line and the re on this page (just like all …
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Date Published: 10/20/2021
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Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail – Routes for Walking and Hiking
Discover the best hikes and paths to Fifield-Cahill Rge Trail in California, United States of America. Explore it on the map and plan your own route to …
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Exploring the Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail – KQED
Fifield-Cahill Rge connects with the 3.7 miles of the Sweeney Rge Trail open to the public. Visitors interested in connecting their trek on …
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Bay Area Ridge Trail: SF Peninsula Watershed: Fifield-Cahill …
This docent-led hike is a unique opportunity to experience the 23000-acre watershed, a state Fish and Game Refuge. Near Highlands-Baywood Park, California.
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Date Published: 1/27/2021
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- Author: Max Mautner
- Views: 조회수 731회
- Likes: 좋아요 13개
- Date Published: 2021. 3. 29.
- Video Url link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ait0vAvLHW4
The Peninsula’s most protected trail is delightful. And it’s growing. Here’s what you need to know.
On a recent Saturday morning, I joined a guided hike to explore a segment of the trail, meeting my trail docent, Peninsula ultrarunner Suki Martin, on the highway pullout near the entrance of the Skylawn Memorial Cemetery. From my car, I followed Martin through the winding roads of the cemetery to a roughly-paved road, then a dirt road through a gate with a modestly sized parking area.
All of the protections that surround the trail are there for good reason: It’s near four Peninsula watershed reservoirs that provide the drinking water for San Francisco and other communities, and there are a number of protected species found there, such as the California red-legged frog, San Francisco garter snake, Bay checkerspot butterfly, steelhead and the marbled murrelet. According to Tim Ramirez, land and resources management manager at the SFPUC, around 2002, the trail was opened up to the public using the docent-led approach. Docents are trained volunteers, and through their efforts, the trail can be accessed three days a week for up to three trips per day, on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
The trail runs for 10 miles, starting at the Skyline Quarry off of State Route 92, between Half Moon Bay and San Mateo, and ending at the Portola Gate at Sweeney Ridge, an open space preserve between Pacifica and San Bruno. The forested ridge the trail runs through is owned by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC). The area is part of a 23,000-acre property the utility owns and manages as part of the watershed it controls.
You can’t go there alone – you’ve got to sign up to go with a trained docent – and you need a reservation. But the views from Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail are worth the hassle.
Those expansion plans were about 20 years in the making, and passed a key milestone on May 11, when the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously to approve plans to build a new trail on its Peninsula property, the Southern Skyline Ridge Trail.
The plant life along the way was lush and verdant, and it was exciting to get a pedestrian perspective on the green hills I find so soothing when driving along Highway 280. I left the trail after several hours happy to have explored a new trail and seen the Peninsula from a new perspective, eager to share the experience with others. I had no idea about the plans, decades in the works, to expand the trail and make it more accessible set to move forward in the coming weeks.
The hike developed into a roughly 7-mile out-and-back journey, with views of the Crystal Springs Reservoir on one side and the Pilarcitos Reservoir on the other, plus tidy pit toilets every couple of miles. Though the forecast called for rain – likely deterring a larger group from joining our trip – we only caught some light mist at the tail end of the hike.
With the rest of our hiking group, three men from the East Bay who were experienced hikers and in training for a summer backpacking trip, we set off down the trail, a well-maintained dirt fire road.
The vision for the Southern Skyline Boulevard Trail has been around at least since 2001, since a management plan for the property was approved that features the trail, said project manager Mary Tienken to SFPUC commissioners in a hearing over the project’s approval.
As the owner of the Peninsula Watershed property, the SFPUC’s first priority is to protect the water supply, not to provide recreation services, although expanding access is a goal for the agency, Ramirez explained.
The trail will stretch 6 miles along Skyline Boulevard, from the south side of State Route 92 to the Phleger Estate Property, just across Skyline Boulevard to the Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve. And, rather than limit access to guided expeditions as on the Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail, this trail will be accessible simply by securing a permit in advance.
To sign up to access the Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail with a docent, visit sfwater.org/trails . Upcoming docent-led events include hikes, bikes and trail runs of various lengths and from various starting points along the trail.
As with other segments of the Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail, visitors in groups of up to 20 people will only have access while under the supervision of a trained volunteer docent to hike, bike or ride horses along the trail.
Another part of the project outside of the SFPUC’s control is how quickly other neighboring properties will build trails to connect with their new one. The Phleger Estate , which is part of the federal Golden Gate National Recreation Area but accessible only through San Mateo County’s Huddart Park, shows future plans to build a trail to connect with the new Southern Skyline Trail on its public trail map, but it is not clear yet when that will be built.
Such an agreement would also include the addition of some sidewalks to connect the trail segments. That part of the project will have to be completed before people will be allowed unsupervised on the Southern Skyline Ridge Trail, according to environmental documents.
To reduce that impact, the SFPUC plans to work with Caltrans to design, fund and build one of two possible options: a grade-separated bridge for pedestrians, cyclists and equestrians over State Route 92 at the east leg of the intersection with State Route 35, or a roundabout to direct vehicles through the State Route 92, State Route 35 and Lifemark Road intersections, which would have highly visible crosswalks to accommodate those traveling by bike, foot or horse.
One challenge with the project – and one that the environmental study found would leave a “significant and unavoidable” impact – is on the dangerous conditions that will emerge from pedestrians on the trails having to navigate the busy vehicle intersection at State Routes 92 and 35, according to the project’s environmental report, which was approved by the San Francisco Planning Commission April 29.
However, the project comes with some other next steps that have yet to be fully worked through.
The next step for the project is to put the project out to bid, find a contractor, and begin work on building the trail as soon as 2022. It’s expected to take about a year and a half to complete after construction starts, Tienken said.
“There is no question that there is need for broader public (trail) access in the Peninsula and we are so pleased that the new ridge trail extension will be available to the public via permit system,” she told the SFPUC commissioners before they approved the plan.
“The ridge trail extension is one of our largest projects and will open a stunning 6 new miles of trails to the public to enjoy, getting us close to our 550 continuous trail vision,” said Liz Westbrook, trail director at the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council.
To access this new trail, visitors must get a permit from the SFPUC. To receive a permit, applicants will be asked to complete some form of educational program to learn about the watershed’s purpose and function, the sensitive resources that surround it, and the visitor rules and restrictions. Permits are expected to be accessible through the SFPUC website or by contacting a community liaison for the SFPUC if the applicant doesn’t have internet access.
As approved, the new trail will run along Skyline Boulevard, also known as State Route 35, and will include a new 20-car parking lot and two new restrooms.
The Peninsula’s most protected trail is delightful. And it’s growing. Here’s what you need to know.
Bay Area Mountain Bike Rides
Fifield-Cahill Ridge
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This ride is very different from any other ride on this website in that the only way of using this trail is by making a reservation for a spot on a guided ride. The ride enters lands in the Peninsula Watershed that are under the control of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, in the hills along the western side of the San Andreas and Crystal Springs reservoirs, which are not open to the public except for guided hikes and guided bike and horse rides. Refer to the “Park Website” link on your left for information and to make a reservation.
Rides are scheduled here fairly regularly, though I seem to remember that they have an off season during the winter. (I could be wrong.) The rides appear to be always scheduled on weekends, but the frequency of the rides seems to have fluctuated over the years. I remember seeing their reservation page with a ride on every weekend a few years ago, and even rides on both days of some weekends. However, another quick look through their schedule as I write this reveals bike rides only once every three weeks. (My guess is that this might be due to the availability and schedule of the volunteer docent more than anything else.) Typically, 9 or 10 spaces are made available for each ride.
The only thing that can be ridden by these guided rides is Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail, which is a single trail stretching from Highway 92 to Sweeney Ridge. I seem to remember the availability of guided rides that started from either end of the trail on the reservation page, but that has not been the case in recent years. (Perhaps I may have confused it with the availability of guided hikes from either end, which is still true.) At the time I write this, guided rides appear to start exclusively from the Highway 92 end of the trail (what the reservation page calls “Cemetery Gate”), and the ride you see on this page is one such ride. Long-time users of this website may remember that I originally featured a ride that started from the Sneath Lane end of the trail on this page, which is how most guided rides were done when I first tried them in 2009. Although that version of the ride no longer seems to represents what’s currently being done, I’ve kept it available as an alternate that you can see here. Incidentally, I don’t believe they ever schedule a ride to traverse the entire length of the trail (which is about 10 miles, one way, if I’m not mistaken).
The “guide” for each ride is a volunteer docent, as far as I’ve seen, and their role doesn’t go beyond accompanying you, showing the way, deciding where to turn around, taking head counts to make sure that everyone who came in also goes out, and answering any questions that they can for the curious ones in the group. Other than that, it’s like any formal group ride where, for better or worse, the pace is set by the slowest riders in the group.
When starting from the southern end of the trail as this route does, the meeting place is not actually Cemetery Gate itself. As you will see on the PDF map, Cemetery Gate is technically a trailhead that is located at the end of what Google Maps labels as “Cahill Ridge Road”, roughly two miles in from Route 92. Possibly because it might be tricky and confusing to find your way there through the meandering roads in Skylawn Cemetery and continuing onto an unpaved road that looks barely used, the docent for my ride had given all participants instructions to meet at a wide gravel clearing adjacent to the entrance of Skylawn Cemetery on Route 92 instead. We then drove together to the trailhead in a convoy once everyone had shown up. I expect this to be the established practice still, but I don’t know that for a fact.
Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail heads northwest from the Cemetery Gate trailhead in a rough approximation of a straight line and the ride on this page (just like all guided rides from this trailhead) is an out-and-back traversal of part of this trail. This overall straightness of the route is at least partially due to the general tendency to straightness of most geographical features in this area because of the location’s closeness to the very straight San Andreas Fault. Fifield Ridge and Cahill Ridge, whose spines this trail follows, are two such roughly straight geographical features.
Fifield and Cahill Ridges connect to each other at a fairly low saddle point where there is a junction labeled as “Five Points” on the trail map. The climb out of this low junction is the only significant physical challenge on this ride, though you’ll get to face that challenge twice since this is an out-and-back. On your climb out of Five Points in the first half of the ride, the first half mile of the climb is the tough part. There is a 0.2-mile stretch in that half mile where the grade averages nearly 13%. It then backs off pretty quickly, so that you don’t encounter any slopes with a grade that reaches even 10% until further up Fifield Ridge. During your return traversal of the route, there is a similarly short but tough section on your way out of the same junction that is just a touch shorter than the one in the other direction and very slightly gentler at about a 12.5% average grade. The rest of the trail southeast of Five Points is roughly flat on average with very moderate and short ups and downs, while the part northwest is more of a sustained climb on your way to the turn-around point of the ride, but the slopes are reasonable. That portion shows only three points that exceed 10% grade in my GPS data.
Fifield Ridge and Cahill Ridge are like opposites in more than just their average slopes. While Cahill Ridge passes through a healthy and moderately dense forest of tall trees, Fifield Ridge features trees only in small clumps along the trail itself and is otherwised flanked by nothing but chaparral and open views. While you initially look only upon the surrounding ridges and Montara Mountain from Fifield Ridge, you start catching glimpses toward South San Francisco and Mount Bruno as you get higher, and toward the ocean and Pacifica as you approach the turn-around point for the ride (though I missed the latter on the day I did this ride due to some marine fog).
My understanding about the turn-around point for the ride is that it is subject to alteration according to the needs and capabilities of the participants of the ride. However, I got the impression from the docent who accompanied us that the spot where you see this particular route turning back (which is at what looks like a “traffic circle” in the trail, close to a restroom) is the one they usually don’t exceed. So, you could take that to mean that you shouldn’t expect your Fifield-Cahill ride to be much longer than what you see on this page, though it might be a little bit shorter depending on who’s riding with you.
Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail – Routes for Walking and Hiking
You can hike, bike, or ride horses through pristine stands of old growth Douglas Fir, evergreen and fragrant coastal scrub while enjoying ridge-top vistas of SF watershed lands, reservoirs, the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay on excursions three days a week with trained volunteer trail leaders.
Small groups of hikers, bicyclists, or equestrians must make reservations for guided excursions along the Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail. Because of environmental restrictions, groups must be accompanied by a volunteer trail leader and are limited to approximately 20 people (fewer on horseback), scheduled no more than three times a day on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. You can reserve spaces for as many as five people for any one event: sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=147
Exploring the Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail
Special thanks to John Fournet and Betsy Lauppe Rhodes of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, for assisting us on this project.
Hiking the Peninsula Watershed: Gaining a new view on water and resource conservation
Crystal Springs reservoir, a familiar sight from Interstate 280, has helped serve San Francisco’s water needs since it was dammed in the 1880s. The dam, made of interlocking concrete blocks, survived the 1906 earthquake with little damage. The four reservoirs of the Peninsula Watershed are in the valley created by the San Andreas fault.
It flows downhill for miles and miles until it reaches your tap. On its way, it passes towering fir forests, distinctive grasslands, and the habitat of many rare and endangered species. It’s San Francisco’s water, resting on the San Andreas fault, replenished constantly by the cycles of nature, and delivered to you via ingenious Civil War-era engineering.
The history and nature surrounding the San Francisco Peninsula Watershed make it much more than a pastiche of hillsides and reservoirs. The watershed, managed by the Public Utilities Commission, is home to trails that offer access to remote wilderness, Northern California geology, and unique opportunities to appreciate the complexity of providing 2.4 million people with a clean water supply.
Some trails follow the outlines of reservoirs; others lead to hillside hikes that provide wide-angle views of the watershed. The Sawyer Camp trail, one of the most heavily used in the Bay Area, skirts the edges of Crystal Springs and San Andreas reservoirs, via a six-mile accessible paved path. At the northern edge of PUC land is the Sweeny Ridge trail, managed by the national park service, a 600-foot climb to sweeping views and a favorite with mountain bikers.
Visiting the two areas we’ve explored here on the QUEST website lends a dual understanding of the watershed and its simultaneous protection from and integration into the surrounding metro area. The Fifield-Cahill Ridge trail, in a carefully preserved area that includes old growth Douglas firs, demonstrates differing views of conservation measures taken over 15 decades. On the other side of interstate 280, a hike starting from the Pulgas Water Temple gives visitors a chance to ponder the enormity of the task of bringing water halfway across the state, downhill through the mountains, to a growing Bay Area population.
The Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail
A stand of Monterey pines along the Fifiled-Cahill Ridge trail serve as a reminder of past conservation ethics, when ecologists deemed tree-planting as a most vital activity. Though they are from the nearby Monterey Bay region, these trees aren’t native to these more northern hills. They were likely planted in the 1930s, possibly to promote fog drip in the hopes that it would contribute to the reservoirs.
Running a 10-mile length through the area’s many habitats, the Fifield-Cahill trail may be the watershed’s most special excursion. It was closed to the public until 2003, and even now only parties of 20 or less are allowed, and must be accompanied by a trail guide. Why? It’s all in the interest of preserving the habitat and resources here, and protecting the reservoirs from fire, erosion, and pollution.
You can make reservations to explore the trail on foot, bicycle or horse by visiting trail.sfwater.org.
Along the trail, hikers get views of all four of the watershed’s reservoirs, as well as a vista of the city, old-growth forests, and a chance to glimpse some rare and endangered species. These reservoirs were the impetus for establishing a protected wilderness here 150 years ago, and they’ve been vital to the development of San Francisco. Their dams were all built between 1860 and 1880, and survived the 1906 earthquake, despite their locations along the San Andreas fault line.
The landscape here is perfect for catching rainfall. Coastal marine layers move on shore over the hillsides, dumping lots of rain into the rift valley. The area around Pilarcitos reservoir can sometimes receive four or five times the rainfall of the airport, which is only 5 miles away. On their own, the four reservoirs—Upper and Lower Crystal Springs, Pilarcitos, and San Andreas—provides about ten percent of San Francisco’s water supply.
The Pulgas Water Temple and Sheep Camp trail
The Pulgas Water Temple was built at the terminus of the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct as a monument to the new water system. It’s located within the watershed, just south of Crystal Springs reservoir. An inscription at the top reads, “I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people,” a biblical quote from Isaiah.
So where does the rest of the city’s vital H2O come from? The Pulgas Water Temple tells this part of the story, and a climb from the Temple to a nearby ridgetop affords broad brush views of the watershed, putting the whole water narrative together.
San Francisco long ago outgrew its four reservoirs. In 1909, with memories of the ’06 earthquake’s unquenchable fires still vivid, the city of San Francisco purchased land in the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park with the intention to dam the Tuolomie river. The next year, the city voted to build the dam and a 160-mile-long system to carry the water from the mountains to the San Andreas valley, and in 1913 Congress allowed the construction. The effort expended was enormous: $45 million dollars, twenty years of construction, a few deaths and a great deal of politics. In 1934, the first rush of Hetch Hetchy water flowed through the gravity-driven tunnel system, across the California’s central valley. It swooshed through the base of the Pulgas Water Temple and into nearby Crystal Springs reservoir while San Franciscans cheered, and some conservationists frowned.
Signs at the start of the Sheep Camp trail let visitors know that this is protected land.
The ascension up Sheep Camp trail connects the Hetchy water to its final destination. Climbing to the ridge top east of 280, hikers pass through coastal oak scrub, until reaching the viewpoint. Here, you can see across the valley, taking in Crystal Springs reservoir and the pine and fir stands that the Fifield-Cahill trail passes through, Trekkers with a fondness for geology will appreciate this scene: the reservoir in view sits atop the San Andreas fault, meaning that a hiker here is standing on one tectonic plate and looking out at another, the distant hills moving southward, ever so slowly.
Being able to see two tectonic plates isn’t entirely uncommon in the Bay Area. But this vista brings together so much more: an illustration of how humans have made use of the valley created by these plate movements, and harnessed the landscape’s natural slope and the resources in the mountains hundreds of miles east, all with the purpose of providing water—California’s original gold—to the people who flock here for the very magic this set of hikes offers.
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Bay Area Ridge Trail: SF Peninsula Watershed: Fifield-Cahill Trail Hiking Trail, Highlands-Baywood Park, California
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