Hiking routes around San Diego

California Mission Trail passes through San Diego: 12 sections with 849 km mapped in all, 40 km of them within 29 km. Of the routes listed here, the longest is California Mission Trail, 76 km from Mission San Diego de Alcalá (1769) to Mission San Luis Rey (1798). National routes account for the largest share: 40 of the 101 km of waymarked route within 29 km. Most of the 6 local routes are short walks: 6 of them are under 10 km.

• California Mission TrailNational · CMT · 12 sections40 km within 29 km · 849 km in all · Mission San Diego de Alcala to Mission San Francisco Solano
• California Mission TrailRegional · CMT0140 km within 29 km · 76 km in all · Mission San Diego de Alcalá (1769) to Mission San Luis Rey (1798)
• South Poway TrailLocal7 km within 29 km · about 9.2 km in all
• Oceanfront WalkLocal · OFW5 km within 29 km
• Carmel Mission TrailLocal2.8 km within 29 km
• Park to Bay LinkLocal2.8 km within 29 km · South Embarcadero to Presidents Way
• Tecolote Canyon TrailLocal2.2 km within 29 km
• Hillside LoopLocal1.5 km within 29 km

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

• Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
• Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
• Lengths within 29 km are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.

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