Skeggs & El Corte de Madera
Peninsula (Skyline) · near Woodside / Redwood City · SF Bay Area
Gravel & Bikepacking
At a glance
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Best season
- Year-round (drier late spring–fall; can be muddy in winter)
What is here
- Terrain
- forest
- Amenities
- Redwood & fir singletrack · Skyline ridge network · Silicon Valley proximity · Preserve trail systems
- Best for
- Flowing forested trail riding near the Peninsula
- Features
- Cool redwood ridge trails · Flowing, buffed singletrack · Minutes from Silicon Valley · Skyline forest network
Worth knowing
- Hazards
- Busy shared-use trails · Roots & occasional mud · Fog & cool damp · Poison oak
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Gravel & Bikepacking detail
- Ride types
- singletrack · day-gravel
- Surface
- buff
- Remoteness
- 1
- Riding
- Cool redwood-and-fir singletrack and fire roads along the Skyline ridge above Silicon Valley — flowing, forested, drop-bar-friendly dirt with ocean-side calm
- Terrain note
- 1,500–2,400 ft forested ridge; buffed trails; cool, often foggy
- Camping
- No
- Intl tip
- Cool redwood-and-fir riding along Skyline Blvd above the Peninsula — El Corte de Madera ('Skeggs'), Purisima, and neighbors — flowing singletrack and fire roads minutes from Silicon Valley. Buffed, drop-bar-friendly where doubletrack runs, through fern-carpeted forest with ridge viewpoints. Ridable much of the year (winter mud); busy shared-use on weekends; roots, poison oak. No camping (day riding). A green, foggy sanctuary above the tech valley.
- Trip lengths
- day
The guide
The forested ridges along Skyline Boulevard above the Peninsula — El Corte de Madera Creek Preserve (universally called 'Skeggs…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Skeggs & El Corte de Madera — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 37.42, -122.31