Gregory Thomas

After years, a set of highly anticipated scenic trails opened in the mountains south of San Francisco, for the first time allowing hikers into a beautiful nature corridor hidden in the hills.

You don’t have to travel to the Sierra to catch Northern California’s fall color shift. Here are five under-the-radar leaf-peeping places in the Bay Area.

Hikers attempt to set a “fastest known time” on the famous Pacific Crest Trail almost every year. An Australian ultrarunner just finished the whole thing in 70 days.

Stranded on an isolated ridge and facing an 800-foot drop, two California backpackers were rescued by helicopter in the nick of time.

The world’s preeminent “skyrunner” just climbed all of California’s 14,000-foot peaks in less than a month — and smashed a High Sierra speed record along the way.

Hiking through the highly trafficked Mist Trail area at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley will be more complicated than usual this fall.

A new Northern California business venture makes small-scale versions of Yosemite’s beloved trail signs as souvenirs.

While Yosemite’s granite cathedrals and Tahoe’s stunning views pull in millions of visitors each year, a slice of spectacular Sierra wilderness wedged between the two has gone mostly unnoticed.

While Yosemite’s granite cathedrals and Tahoe’s stunning views pull in millions of visitors each year, a slice of spectacular Sierra wilderness wedged between the two has gone mostly unnoticed.

A group of extreme slackliners rigged a walking line nearly one-third of a mile through the air at Kirby Cove in Marin.