💚Green Exercise🥾Unlocking Secret Trail Hidden Gems Foothills Nature Preserve✨

Hello Nature Lovers, let's meet new friends and go on a green exercise wellness Hike, enjoy the nature and the beauty of the healing mountains for our physical health and mental well-being😇

For years, Foothills Nature Preserve was one of the area's best-kept secrets. Now the gates are open to everyone, and we couldn't be more excited to finally explore it.

Join us for a relaxed hike through these trails, with great views, fresh air, and good company. No secret handshake required🌲

​We’re heading out to explore one of the Peninsula’s most famous hidden treasures! Tucked away in the hills, this stunning park was kept a complete secret from the general public for over 50 years—reserved strictly for Palo Alto residents until the gates finally opened to everyone.

​Now that the public can freely enjoy it, I have secured our official approved permit to lead our group through its pristine trails, tranquil lake, and panoramic mountain views. Having hiked these trails extensively since the park opened, I’ve mapped out a fantastic route so our team can experience the very best of this once-forbidden gem!

Bounded by Portola Valley, Los Altos Hills, Pearson-Arastradero Preserve and Los Trancos Open Space Preserve, the 1,400-acre Foothills Park is a nature lover's paradise. Miles of trails provide access through rugged chaparral, woodlands, fields, streams, and a lake, and provide spectacular views of the Bay Area. Wildlife abounds, and it is common to see deer and coyotes

Address: 11799 Page Mill Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Keep driving up about 1.5 miles from entrance gate
⏰Meet time: 12:30pm at Orchard Glen Picnic Area
parking lot near the restrooms
GPS: https://goo.gl/maps/BvsGyX7z14TbzfP46
🥾Hike time: ⏰1:00m

🎒 Bring good vibes🌿
✅Smiles for miles😊​A fantastic, positive attitude!
✅Water, Snacks, ​Sunscreens
✅ Wear Hiking Shoes, Layers

Length: 5-6 miles
Elevation gain: 800ft
Route type: Loop
Level: Moderate challenging
Permit: I have an official approved permit, Yay! for our team Hike this park!
Dog: No! You'll need to leave pups at home — dogs aren't allowed on weekends.
Parking: $6 per vehicle, per day
\Free Vehicle Foothills Park Pass are Available at Palo Alto Libraries​.
You can go there to check out any day in advance anytime\

Optional Post-Hike Hangout or and Dinner🧺
Not ready to head home? Join us after the hike to relax, refuel, and keep the adventure going off the trail. Bring your favorite food, a drink, and good conversation. Location to be confirmed on the day.

🚗Encouraging carpooling if you know each other well for everyone's safety. Please contact each other in a private message not on the message board. Thank you! https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/q4b67h

💚 Support Our Group!
Thanks for joining our wellness club event, it does take time and money to make it happen. Thank you for being prepared and supportive 🌿

Our hikes, dinners, and events run thanks to member support. A small contribution is appreciated to help keep our wellness community active and fun! Thank you for helping us make every event special!

Requested contribution suggested amount $5-$20 to keep the club going!
​Dr. Heidi will ask for the contribution during event check-in. Accepted in person. Your support helps cover the many behind-the-scenes efforts that make these events possible, including route scouting, Meetup platform fees, permits, communication with park staff and members, and planning hikes, dinners, and road trips.
This community exists because of the support and kindness of its members.

The organizer reserves the right to ask a participant to depart!
If they refuse to contribute or follow event guidelines. This ensures our community remains a positive and respectful space for everyone.
Thank you for helping keep our wellness community positive, respectful, and active. 🌿

Our meetup events have a very positive impact on people's lives, people meet, fall in love💘 meet new friends, HAPPY, better health, less stress, anxiety, depression, isolate being alone and got extra bonus for LOVE ​💞

DO NOT ATTEND if you're experiencing any cold or flu symptoms, have a compromised immune system.

Hike at YOUR OWN RISK. Open trails aren't necessarily free of hazards--by entering the wilderness, you assume responsibility for your safety and must use good judgment.

Participation in this event is strictly voluntary! The event host/organizer assumes no responsibility for any injury, damage, or loss you may incur. You join and hike entirely at your own risk.

We are an intermediate hike group. Please be ready to keep up hiking with us from 5 miles without any health issues.

LIABILITY WAIVER: By signing up for the wellness walking/hiking event, you hereby release its organizers, hosts, and participants from any and all liability, claims, demands or causes of action that you now have, or may have in the future, for illness, injuries, damages, and/or economic loss of any kind or nature, arising in whole or in part out of the activities, advice, or information contained herein. You agree to full responsibility for your own health issues.

DISCLAIMER: By participating in this wellness hiking event, you understand that Meetup event Host/Organizer assumes ABSOLUTELY NO responsibility and you have to assume all at your own risk of injury, damage, and economic loss, without limitation, and release host/Organizer of all liability.

If anyone wishes to join our hike team, please answer the RSVP question every time for everyone's safety in the group. If you are unable to send me a message confirming that you are in good health and you are able to hike 5 miles without health issues we CANNOT approve you come to the hiking event.
Please don't just walk in. Thank you for your cooperation!

I'm looking forward to meeting, hiking with you and making good memories together.
Yours in good health! Dr. Heidi💝

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