{"id":1953,"date":"2008-05-30T09:50:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T17:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2008-05-30T09:51:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T17:51:48","slug":"namesake-trails-they-really-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/05\/30\/namesake-trails-they-really-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Namesake trails: they really rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea is simple: they&#8217;d never create a <em>bad<\/em> trail in somebody&#8217;s honor. Most obvious example is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/matt-davis-trail-stinson-beach\" title=\"click for Yelp reviews of the Matt Davis Trail\">Matt Davis Trail<\/a> at Mount Tamalpais State Park. I have no idea who Matt Davis was, but he must&#8217;ve had something on the ball because his name is on one of the finest trails in the Bay Area. <\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m scanning a map, I always look or trails with human names. A couple examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ray Linder Memorial Trail, Butano State Park.<\/strong>  It&#8217;s tucked into a redwood-studded hillside in the far northern reaches of the park. You&#8217;re looking at a 10-mile round trip just to get there, but it&#8217;s one of the best trips through second-growth redwoods in the area. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Betsy Crowder Trail, Windy Hill Open Space Preserve<\/strong> &#8212; not spectacular but proves my point: it&#8217;s one of the prettiest stretches of dirt at Windy Hill: tree-lined, passing a peaceful pond and working its way up into the park. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, of course, there&#8217;s the legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcta.org\/about_trail\/muir\/over.asp\">John Muir Trail<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>These are just the ones that spring immediately to mind. If you can think of any more, please leave a comment. Don&#8217;t worry if you&#8217;re not a Bay Area local &#8212; the concept is universal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea is simple: they&#8217;d never create a bad trail in somebody&#8217;s honor. Most obvious example is the Matt Davis Trail at Mount Tamalpais State Park. I have no idea who Matt Davis was, but he must&#8217;ve had something on&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/05\/30\/namesake-trails-they-really-rock\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}