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Bernal Heights Trail Construction Nearing Completion!

Rec Park Improvements | All Project Updates Posted on March 24, 2020

Construction work on the Bernal Trails Project is ongoing and nearing completion.  We expect to have all the newly restored trails open by early April. 

The only trail that currently has a detour is on the eastern end where the completion of box steps and regrading work is taking place. 

Here are photos of that area of work:

View of dirt trail at Bernal Heights with orange construction fencing and construction crew in the b

View of Box Steps Up Bernal Hill (Foreground) and construction crew next to orange construction fenc

View of Bernal Heights Trail construction showing erosion control measures in the foreground and con

The entrance from Bernal Heights Blvd. on the east side is open and we hope you enjoy the new box steps.

View of Box Steps Up Bernal Hill with orange construction fencing and crew standing at the top of th

View of Box Steps Up Bernal Hill in construction with orange construction fencing, crosswalk (person

Reopened this week is the north-south trail that connects the summit to the top of the new stairs above Esmeralda Ave.

View of a trail splitting off three ways at Bernal Heights. Upper Trail is shown with orange constru

The stairs at Esmeralda have been open for some time but we are leaving the orange fencing up for erosion control.

Bernal Heights trial under construction showing box steps with orange construction fencing on either

And the box steps installed across from Ellsworth Street have been holding up nicely.

View of Box Steps Up Bernal Hill


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