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Coyote Hills Regional Park
(EBRP) Fremont
AA - C; *** ; v?
SJ This park has many miles of accessible trails and fine birdwatching. If you have a fast power chair it's entirely feasible to take a bus on Padre Paseo Blvd to Patterson Ranch Rd and follow Tuibun Trail 0.6 mile to the entrance. Once in the park, the marshes on your right are criss-crossed by accessible trails, though they may be muddy in the rainy season, while to the south, the Bayview Trail, mostly paved, offers about a 3.5 mile hike around the eponymous hills, with only a few medium steep stretches. Some other trails in these hills are also useable; notably the Apay Way Trail, well graded gravel with some steep stretches, which goes 1.5 miles south and over Hwy 84 to the SF Wildlife Refuge. A third possible expedition is the level and paved Alameda
Creek Trail, Details: The picnic area and the Visitor Center are pleasant, as is the Dairy Glen Campground, which unfortunately has the only inaccessible toilets in the park (Though the ones inside the Visitor Center have the kind of wheelchair stall that's too small to permit closing the door behind your chair. At least there's a portable toilet outside for those who prefer privacy to running water.) AC Transit 232 to Padre Paseo and Patterson Ranch Rd. By car, exit Hwy 84 at Paseo Padre Parkway, go north a couple of miles to Patterson Ranch Rd, left to the park.. There is an admission charge when the kiosk is attended. Dogs other than service animals are not permitted in some parts of the park. There are blue spaces and accessible toilets at both parking areas; benches are provided along the marsh trails, at the junction of Alameda Creek and Bayview Trails and at the west end of Alameda Creek Trail, but are less frequent on the hillier trails. Last visit Spring 2005 |
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skirts the north edge of the marshes, and can be reached either by taking
the paved but somewhat hilly Bayview Trail north from the Visitor Center
(where the linking trail has a short steep stretch) or the level gravel
DUST Trail across the marsh, (where the link is also steep, to
get up onto the levee). The Alameda Creek Trail, will take you west
a couple of miles out into the salt flats, or east as many as 10 miles
following the much altered creek to its source in Niles Canyon.