New Sonoma County hiking trail opens up along San Pablo Bay

Sonoma County, California’s newest hiking trail officially opened May 15, 2016 just a few hundred yards from the often backed up and typically frustrating Highway 37.

The Eliot Trail, located at the edge of tidal wetlands near where Lakeville Highway meets Highway 37, gives travelers an experience opposite to the nearby roadway.

The two-and-a-half mile trail offers walkers, joggers and cyclists a tranquil view of Mount Tamalpais and the skyscrapers of San Francisco as they traverse the flank of the new northern border of San Pablo Bay.

The Eliot Trail — named after Wendy Eliot, the conservation director for Sonoma Land Trust — is the newest part of the San Francisco Bay Trail, a planned 500-mile walking and cycling path around the entire bay. The trail now has 350 miles of walkable trails with the opening of the Eliot segment.

The trail flanks the tidal wetlands at Sears Point, a massive restoration project to turn 1,000 acres of oat hayfields back into a saltwater marsh. In October, the Sonoma Land Trust broke a levee to begin the reclamation. It is expected to take 25 years for wildlife and vegetation to completely settle in the area.

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