Buzzards Roost — Attraction in Monterey

This trail was great. Very well kept up and excellent signage, and the view at the top was beautiful. We felt it could be labeled more as "difficult" than "moderate", though. At the y in the trail, the left side has less of an incline. It is significantly easier than the right side, which is very steep and has lots of switchbacks. My preference was to go up the right side of the trail in order to avoid coming down on the steep terrain. We heard from other hikers to take the right side because it had more shade but we experienced plenty of shade on the left side when we...

The view from buzzard's roost is pretty good. We took the pine mountain trail while going up. Did some rock climbing on the trail. I would rate the hike medium-hard. We took the service road on our way back to the parking lot. Totally, it was about a...

Moderate hike along river and thru redwoods to pretty...