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Geographically, the hike selections include the suburbs and nearby communities that surround the city of San Diego: just picture the Pacific Ocean coastline from Oceanside in the north to Imperial Beach near the Mexican border. Add to that the various bay and river shorelines. Then color in the hills, canyons, and valleys stretching east up to—within the parameters of this guidebook—about 20 miles inland from the coast. (San Diego County actually extends much farther east than that, encompassing mile-high-plus mountain ranges and a vast desert region. Those remote, eastern areas are covered in detail in a companion book published by Wilderness Press titled Afoot & Afield: San Diego County.)

The roughly 1,000 square miles of landscape covered in this book offer a year-round mild climate, easy to moderate types of terrain suitable for almost any hiker, and amazingly varied scenery. To put icing on the cake, you may reach the trailheads by car via one of the world’s most efficient roadway systems. In the next few paragraphs, let’s focus on these superlative claims.