Rueda Canyon — Attraction in San Diego

This urban canyon hike is under appreciated based on the grass encroaching on the trail in places. Starting at roadrunner park and using the camp Elliot historical marker as your trailhead, the vague start will give off onto a defined trail within 50 yards. Overall hike is a moderate due to occasional steep sections. Trail is narrow at times. From your start on the east rim, the trail meanders down and crosses over to the west side. Once you drop below the rim it gets surprisingly quiet for a urban trail. After about a 25 minute hike you will end up at the north end of the golf course. There is a service road there and it appears you could continue for a ways, or use this as your turn around and end up back at roadrunner park in an ~1...

I went during covid and it was all empty and overgrown. Still beautiful but a bit difficult to navigate. There was a lot of thistle in the path and I scrambled up a random canyon wall through shrubs because I didn’t know where to go. I also saw a coyote skeleton which was cool and creepy. I may have been feeling apocalyptic in light of the...

Kind of a flat trail in the middle of the valley. Have to go all the way down switchbacks to reach the flat trail in the valley….may need more exploring but wouldn’t recommend for first time or...