A handful of outdoor enthusiasts gathered in Napa County’s Skyline Wilderness Park almost 30 years ago to celebrate the hoped-for birth of a local Bay Area Ridge Trail building binge.
The Bay Area Ridge Trail is to be a continuous 550-mile trail ringing the nine-county Bay Area, a kind of mini, regional version of the Pacific Crest Trail and other world-famous trails. Napa County has a role to play to make this big, bold dream a reality.
Those five miles of Skyline Park trail dedicated in October 1989 formed Napa County’s first stretch of Bay Area Ridge Trail. Other counties that year were also dedicating their own isolated segments.
Jump ahead three decades and 375 miles of Bay Area Ridge Trail exist. Napa County has 19 miles in such diverse places as Skyline Park, Moore Creek Park and the mountains near Calistoga.