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In this week's Around Town column, read about the new California Dinosaur Garden, the state of Palo Alto's wildlife and an upcoming celebration at Mike's Diner Bar.
Skip to main content Currently Reading After 51 years, you can finally hike this Bay Area park. I did, and it made me furious. FacebookTwitterEmail Palo Alto’s Foothills Park opened to non-Palo Alto residents for the first time in 51 years on Thursday, December 17th, 2020. I, Grant Marek, hiked the entire park on Sunday.Christopher Partin/ Special to SFGATE I’m blinded by seething rage as I pass by the entrance kiosk of Palo Alto’s Foothills Park. “Look at this f—king lake. It’s beautiful,” I mutter under my breath. “Jesus, are those docks? And of course there’s a god damn m...