San Francisco

Hiking routes around San Francisco

59 waymarked hiking routes run within 23 km of San Francisco: 1 national, 4 regional and 54 local.

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Around San Francisco

One long-distance trail passes through: American Discovery Trail (8,036 km). Bay Area Ridge Trail passes through San Francisco: 5 sections with 813 km mapped in all, 124 km of them within 23 km. Regional routes account for the largest share: 218 of the 479 km of waymarked route within 23 km. Most of the 54 local routes are short walks: 49 of them are under 10 km. Operators named on the routes listed here include East Bay Regional Park District and The Bay Area Ridge Trail Council.

The routes with most of their length within 23 km

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

Good to know

  • 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 23 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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