Residents, city and park district staff and officials, hikers, cyclists, and even dogs gathered in mid-September along the shores of San Pablo Bay in Western Contra Costa County to celebrate two new sections of the San Francisco Bay Trail. In Pinole, a critical trail gap between Pinole Shores and Bayfront Park was literally bridged by a half-mile of new trail that includes a stunning, sloping bridge over the Union Pacific tracks. And less than a mile to the northeast, Hercules Bay Trail West provides a mile-long segment of Bay Trail that connects existing trail segments to Railroad Avenue in Hercules. Read more