Ready for a race that takes you up and down some monster hills along the single-track trails that wind through this gorgeous park overlooking San Pablo Bay, roughly a half-hour’s drive from San Francisco?
That’s what awaits at the China Camp Challenge Half Marathon, which is part of a series of races known as the “Leader of the Pack” series, organized by Urban Coyote Racing in Northern California.
Run through China Camp State Park. The 1,514-acre park that you’ll run through offers beautifully scenic views of the waters of San Pablo Bay, with its tidal marshes along the shoreline that look up onto hills and mountains filled with wide-open meadows and forests, and plentiful hiking and mountain biking trails.
The land that the park sits on has a history that dates back to before the 1700s, when the indigenous coastal Miwok people lived here, hunting its woods and fishing along the bay. But after the Spanish arrived in the late 1700s and settled the area, the Miwok were largely wiped out decades later.
