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Bay Area Ridge Trail Council
1007 General Kennedy Avenue, Suite 3
San Francisco, CA 94129-1405
Phone 415-561-2595
Fax 415-561-2599
Email us at:
As the pace of daily life grows more hectic, the Ridge Trail offers a special place where you can get away to revive and recharge your spirits while you walk, hike, run, bicycle, ride a horse, watch birds, or just enjoy the soaring vistas with family and friends. Our enjoyment today is possible thanks to a foresighted group of founders and the ongoing efforts of enthusiastic and effective advocates.
Almost twenty years ago, National Park Service Director William Penn Mott, Jr. envisioned a trail that would ring the San Francisco Bay, high on the ridge line. Although he only lived to see part of the trail completed, he inspired a dedicated grassroots effort that has made amazing progress.
Representatives of the Golden
Gate National Recreation Area and the Greenbelt Alliance organized the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council in 1987. They hoped to preserve open space by creating managed public access to a trail along the ridge tops. This initial partnership brought together public park agencies and trails advocates from all around the region to map out a route for the Ridge Trail and establish an organization to promote its completion.
In 1992, the Council became an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. It continues to work in close partnership with local governments, public agencies, nonprofit land trusts, and local grassroots activists in the nine counties of the Bay Area to complete the Ridge Trail.
Mrs. William Penn Mott, Jr. and Brian O'Neill, Superintendent of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, at the Inspiration Point (Contra Costa County) dedication in 1992.
Photo by Bob Walker
With over 300 miles of the Bay Area Ridge Trail route dedicated and permanently protected for use by the public, we are now striving to reach the goal of the 400th mile. Our staff, board, and volunteers work every day to close gaps in the trail and create a continuous trail route for everyone to enjoy. We are also beginning to close "multi-use gaps" so that we can connect routes for equestrians and mountain bicyclists as well as hikers.
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