Crane Creek Regional Park — Attraction in Rohnert Park

My trip to Crane Creek was better than a poke in the eye with a big stick, I guess, but I just wish they would have warned me about that Sonoma Mountain Road. You won't catch me up there again! I'm a city girl, and that single lane road, crumbling away at the edges, seemed like it wasn't even as wide as my car. Talk about white knuckles on the steering wheel! If you were to meet an oncoming car on some stretches of that road, one of you would have to to back up until you could find a space wide enough to pass each other. When I finally got up that road to the park, I found the "park" was just a couple of pastures on top of a hill, with a view of Santa Rosa ... pleasant, but not terribly interesting. And on the first hot day of spring there was NO WATER ANYWHERE. Not even a sink in...

We took the kids for a hike at Crane Creek on a hot summer day. We wanted to avoid the crowds, and Crane Creek was the answer. Hardly any cars in the lot, so that was great. The disc golf course seems well-maintained. The hiking paths are all wide and clean, save for periodic cow paddies. We did not see any cows wandering, as the sign said we may, but we definitely saw evidence of their presence. Beautiful area for a hike, even in the brown-yellow dry of summer. (note that the photos I uploaded were taken in January, several months after I wrote this review. Not sure why Google added them to...

Nice walking area, lots of hills, not very steep most places. The view of the valley, Rohnert Park and beyond, is vast and lovely, and very close to the parking lot. The park itself is not big, but seems bigger because of the hills. The main trail makes a loop. There's a disc golf course. There are far more sunny places than shade. Parking is $7. Accessibility: The parking lot is paved and fairly level, with toilets close by, but much of the park itself is NOT wheelchair-friendly, as in many places the hilly trails have ruts, rocks, holes, bumps, and...