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Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir & Crystal Springs Trail is a 6.1-mile out-and-back in San Francisco Peninsula Watershed near Redwood Park, CA. The route reaches Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir. It climbs 256 ft and is mostly dirt. It scores 2/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi289 – 397 ft6.5 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 37.47546, -122.31924
Nearest town Redwood Park, CA

Directions

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Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir & Crystal Springs Trail

6.1 mi · ▲ 256 ft · 2 hr 10 min

Elevation 287–396 ft

Out & Back · San Francisco Peninsula Watershed

Trailhead: 37.47546, -122.31924

Weather Aug 4: sunrise 6:17 AM · sunset 8:16 PM

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading N.
  2. 0.5 miSharp left, heading W.
  3. 0.5 miPass Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir.
  4. 100 ftTurn right, heading E.
  5. 350 ftTurn left onto Crystal Springs Trail, heading NW.
  6. 2 miReach Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  7. 0.3 miSharp left, heading E.
  8. 1.8 miTurn right, heading SE.
  9. 350 ftTurn left, heading SE.
  10. 0.5 miSharp right, heading S.
  11. 0.4 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

64% dirt2% gravel34% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:17 AMSunset 8:16 PM

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