Edgewood Park & Natural Preserve — Attraction in San Carlos

Beautiful and easy to navigate hiking and exercise preserve with beautiful views, lots of wildflowers, birds and other animals, public facilities, and moderate to easy difficulty. This place is truly special and can be reasonably navigated in 2-3 hours!

The parking here can be tricky, so be prepared to walk a bit to the trailhead. We didn’t have much trouble on a Saturday at 11:00 AM. The parking lot is free and restrooms are located at the bottom alongside a welcome center.

The trails are good for beginners. Most of them are covered with trees but there are stretches with no shade so bring sunscreen. You can pick your loop but be prepared to hike at least 2 to 3 miles round trip with a moderate incline. There are lots of beautiful birds, inserts, and reptiles alongside the trail.

Advice for newcomers: Bring sunscreen, be CAREFUL of poison oak, use the restroom before going on the hike, bring water, and remove valuables from your car.

Highly recommended and one of the best hiking trails in...

I have recently hiked twice within the Edgewood Park Preserve and found both to be very enjoyable. The first time I hiked in from the Clarkia trail and took a loop around the southern section of the park. My second trip started on the northern side hiking the Sylvan trail starting from Old Stage Mill Road. At that site there was an office where I could find out more about wildflowers and the best trail to take and what to look for.

On both trails I found a variety of different wildflowers and nice vistas, some of which stretched to a scenic view of Redwood City and the bay. I also saw a nice variety of wildflowers (pictured). The hikes were easy to moderate and well worth a few...

Not a purist but to call what one does here “hiking” is equivalent to calling a strip mall a “cultural center.” This is a large, dusty network of gravel paths in a cluster of boring hills meant to act as a value moat around the hillside properties; which, perhaps in that sense, justifies the title “preserve.”

From a NIMBY perspective, a beautiful thing. From almost any other perspective, this is a place which is yet another of the Silicon Valley euphemisms which prop up this Baudrillardian desert of the real.

Extra star for one of the reviewers only rating it poorly because the county failed to stop rattlesnakes from existing. I’d have given it three stars if he’d been...