SF BAY AREA DAY TRIP ADVENTURE

Destination: Almaden, San Jose

Hike Almaden’s Quicksilver Park, Visit The Mining Museum, And Summit Mt. Umunhum

This is part of a series of family-oriented day trip outings around the San Francisco Bay Area I look forward to enjoying with my kids once social distancing and shelter in place isn’t the norm any longer.

Almaden Lake with Mt. Ununhum in the Background by Don DeBold

Destination: Almaden, San Jose

1. Hike Almaden’s Quicksilver Park
2. Visit the Mining Museum
3. Summit Mt. Umunhum

Hike Almaden’s Quicksilver Park

• https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/parkfinder/Pages/AlmadenPark.aspx
• https://www.alltrails.com/parks/us/california/almaden-quicksilver-county-park

By Eugene Zelenko — Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3587896

Hiking here has been on my to-hike list for a while. We’ve made it to the mining museum (listed below), but not out on the trail. Quicksilver is a reference to Mercury found in the cinnabar located in the mountains here. Quicksilver was used in thermometers and switches, but it was also used in…