Welcome to the AvidBackpackers.com website. There are now over 100 detailed trip descriptions with maps and pictures of backpacking trips in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Sierras!
Latest trips include Stewartville Backpack Camp in Black Diamond Mines, Round Valley Regional Preserve, Angel Island State Park and Point Reyes National Seashore and Gilmore Lake, Half Moon Lake/Alta Morris Lake in Desolation Wildernss. Use the map below to select an area you are interested in.

Secret trips not on map (they are off the map, not really secret, just hard to find)