Happy Trails to … Richmond!
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could hop on your bike, put the pedal to the metal and zip along for miles right next to the San Francisco Bay shoreline, with stunning views of water and sky stretching all the way to the horizon and the wind blowing through your hair?
Well, actually, you can if you take the Bay Trail. Richmond currently has 25 miles of the trail completed, the most of any Bay Area city. The trail is also known as the “Ring Around the Bay,” which will eventually span 500 miles to link nine counties encircling San Francisco and San Pablo bays.
Some 80 percent of the existing trail is separated from traffic, a recent newspaper article informs us, and 146 species of birds can be found between Point Isabel and Marina Bay, including the great blue heron, snowy egret and burrowing owl. Many of you are probably familiar with Point Isabel, the famous dogwalking area on the bay at the Central Avenue exit off Interstate 580.
And yes, you can bike, or jog, or walk, all the way from Point Isabel to Marina Bay on this trail! Pretty cool, eh? Which is one of the big selling points of the condos in the Marina Bay area. Here are some recent sales thereabouts (Photo: Peter Kaminski).
1601 Kayak Court, Unit 100, Richmond: 1,265 sq ft, sold for $490,000 on Jan. 15. This condo and other properties in this post are all within walking distance of the Bay Trail.
139 Schooner Court, Richmond: 2 bedrooms/2 baths, 997 sq ft, sold for $351,000 on Feb. 15.
113 Melville Square Apt. 113, Richmond: 1 bedroom/1 bath, 734 sq ft, sold for $243,000 on March 4.
190 Schooner Court, Richmond: 1 bedroom/1 bath, 732 sq ft, sold for $279,500 on Jan. 10.
