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You walk along the left side of the parade ground, where views stretch to the Golden Gate Bridge, Angel Island, and Mt. Diablo. With a sports field on your right, you turn left on the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail, part of the Bay Area Ridge Trail. You walk on pavement between two buildings (numbers 1207 and 1208), cross Ralston, and then come to Lincoln. Cross carefully, and then follow Langdon Court about 50 feet to a trail post. You jog left, then veer right through a parking area, heading toward the Pacific Ocean.

At the west end of the parking area, follow a paved road that soon changes to dirt and gravel. Turning right at a trail post, you get on the Coastal Trail, a wide dirt-and-gravel path that is part of the Anza/Bay Area Ridge Trail. Near the bunkers the trail forks: hikers stay left, bicyclists stay right. You follow the rocky and eroded hiking trail to another fork, where the left branch is signed for the Anza/Bay Area Ridge Trail. The low concrete bunkers beside the trail were built from 1891 to 1900 for coastal defense. At the end of World War II, the guns in these bunkers were removed.