But, Coe is no slouch either. It is the largest park in the state system, somewhere around 86,000 square acres. It is wild, pristine, untrammeled. Hiking or horseback riding and camping there must be one of the great experiences in the bay area. At 2600 feet elevation, the fog does a nice job of settling into the valleys and drowning out the cities on good nights.
Sunsets can be spectacular, etherial.
It is a friendly place. There are other places too. Pachecho State Park, Pinnacles, places the Santa Cruz club goes to that TAC has left mostly unexplored but are quite nice. There are many places to go. A bit further afield we are fortunate to have Michelle Stone as such a gracious hostess at Plettstone, with its wonderful skies, the hidden Fiddletown site up in the heart of California's gold rush history, Lake San Antonio to the south, Lake Sonoma to the north, Del Valle, San Antonio Valley, and of course Mt. Lassen a couple times a year.