With a hilly and challenging course that takes runners through both Joaquin Miller Park and Redwood Regional Park just outside Oakland, the Cinderella Trail Run is actually run in both the spring and the late summer — in mid-May and mid-August.
Organized by Coastal Trail Runs, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based race management company that stages trail races up and down the California and Oregon coasts throughout the year, the Cinderella Trail Run races run through Joaquin Miller Park, a 500-acre park filled with groves of redwood trees and oaks as well as creeks and wetland areas, that lies just a few miles east of downtown Oakland.
Runners in the half marathon make basically two loops. The first, a counter-clockwise loop through Joaquin Miller Park, takes them along that park’s Sunset and Sequoia Bayview trails.