Best Of Recreation

Enjoy sports and relaxation with island living

The East Bay offers bountiful opportunities for indoor and outdoor recreation, including readers’ favorites such as top-tier hiking and biking trails, accessible parks, design-savvy swimming pools, and accommodations and gear for stylish staycations or travel afar. One place sometimes overlooked requires island hopping. For a superlative daycation, one may check...

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Best of East Bay 2023 – Recreation

Jun 28, 2023

Classic Rock Exploring the Bay’s explosive history in Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve is surely the East Bay’s most unique park, with its open, rolling hills, rocky cliffs and layered portrait of the Bay Area’s geological...

Best Backyard Getaways

Feb 24, 2021

In the Bay Area, residents tend to heap praise upon the California redwoods further up North, but the majesty redwoods display in our own backyards is terribly underrated. As solitude and reflection force themselves into the center...