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 Lake of the Woods and Ropi Lake, Desolation Wilderness, Round Lake and Dardanelles Lake, Meiss Country Roadless Area, Angel Island State Park, Coast Camp at Point Reyes National Seashore, Wildcat Camp and Alamere Falls at Point Reyes National Seashore, Hidden Lake (El Dorado National Forest), and Glacier Lake (in Tahoe National Forest). Or 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)