Exploring Tilden Park Trails - Lower/Upper Packrat, Memory, Selby, Lake Anza, Mineral Springs


Exploring Tilden Park Trails

 Saturday Morning run. This run started at Tilden Park Steam trains. We ran Grizzly Peak along the ridge line, past the turn for Lawrence Hall of Science and the Berkeley University.

We continued to enjoy the views of local Berkeley houses until we turned right on Wild Cat Canyon Road and Left on Canon Dr. We Followed Canon to Central Park Dr. and ran left to the Tilden Park little farm. It was fun to run around the farm and see all the farm animals.


Typically this would be a great bathroom stop, but we were there too early for the restrooms to be open.


At Tilden Park Little Farm there is a wide choice of trails to take. We ran the Lower Packrat Trail. This part of the trail is full of beautiful foliage and trees. It is a little too tight to ride a bike in my opinion.

At Jewel Lake we circled round to Upper Packrat trail and started to wonder our way back to our car.


We traveled Memory Trail, to Selby Trail (the trail has seen damage due to weather, but there has been a lot of limb trimming and work to make the trail passable.


At Lake Anza we switched from Selby trail to Lake Anza Trail.

Half way around the Lake we switched again to Mineral Springs trail and took that to the main Road Wild Cat Canyon. We ran South to Golf Course Rd which is closed to car traffic during the winter months. We enjoyed smooth traveling back to our cars.
All these paths are amazing and full of beauty. Check them out!!

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