Don't bother going to Mt. Diablo if you are in Berkeley and will have a MTB. I highly recommend Joaquin Miller Park in the Oakland hills. Lots of legal singletrack and you can get there by bike w/o too much trouble.
Make your way up to Grizzly Peak Blvd and turn left on Skyline. Skyline will take you right there. I would suggest looping in Redwood Park and Roberts Park for addition miles. One "classic" is to do the Joaquin Miller trails before or after the Eastridge/Westridge loop (CCW is better) in Redwood Park. You can't really get lost because the nearest road isn't far away, but it sure feels like you could. http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/opr/documents/image/oak041704.pdf If you park a car there, don't leave valuables in the car. Never had any issue personally, but there are plenty of thefts reported. -Ryan On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 2:48:48 PM UTC-7, Christian wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am in Berkeley visiting family and would love to get a ride in. I'm > looking for route suggestions for a good long ride and would prefer dirt. > Driving over to Walnut Creek to ride Mt Diablo sounds appealing. I've never > been so any ideas would be appreciated. I'd love to tag along on a group > ride but solo is fine too. I'm gonna look into renting a bike today--Sports > Basement has some pretty nice mountain bikes to demo. > > Thanks! > > Christian from Charlottesville -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
