Dunn Trail and Monteiro Trail Loop is a 5.5 kilometer heavily trafficked loop trail located near Oakland, California that features beautiful wild flowers and is rated as moderate. The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, running, and bird watching and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
A hiking or cycling circuit that explores the Redwood Regional Park Area
April 16, 2021great afternoon hike! not too many people, lots of variety. mostly shaded with some beautiful views. spectacular trees. highly recommended!
April 3, 2021Pretty aggressive incline basically the whole time but beautiful!!
February 20, 2021Pretty muddy and slippery at points because of the steepness. I recommend going counter clockwise to avoid some of this. Most people still had their dogs ON leash even in the OFF leash section which made me feel like I needed to leash mine as well but that made it really hard to navigate slippery areas being attached to a dog but I get some people think it’s more covid safe.
February 13, 2021February 7, 2021.Trail is beautiful, with sunshine, shadows, and dappled areas. We met great dogs on this trail, including a rat terrier (Pepper), an Italian greyhound and a bunch of Chihuahua mixes and little fluffy dogs. We picked SuperBowl Sunday, hoping to escape toxic maskless masculinity, but now we’ll have to go back to see what it’s usually like.
January 10, 2021December 31, 2020Crowded at the beginning but otherwise great
July 24, 2020Good trail overall. We went counterclockwise and the first half mile was pretty mundane as it followed the road and behind several houses. The trees began once you descend into the canyon. The trails are all hard pack dirt, so it was very easy to walk on. There were enough up and downs to get a little work out.
July 8, 2020Lovely loop in Redwood Regional starting a little farther south and west of other entrances. This hike doesn’t start with redwoods like the other entrances do, but you’ll eventually get to the beautiful trees.
February 3, 2020Mostly shaded, surprisingly dry right now despite the lack of sun. There’s a lot of horse poop on the Monterio trail, so keep an eye out for that. You eventually pass by the Skyline ranch, and the last bit is along a row of houses, which felt a little awkward being so close to everyone’s back yards. Beautiful trees and canopies but no large/vast views.
January 18, 2020Agree that there are lots of puppers on the first part of the trail. Trail was not as muddy as I was expecting given recent hard rains.
November 10, 2019Nice trail, first half feels too busy and way too many dogs. Second half much quieter and nicer. Good amount of shade.
August 21, 2019Was a wonderful trail, just so many bugs!!! We did a longer route and took us 2hr45min with a bit of sightseeing as well.
August 14, 2019Awesome trail to run - just enough elevation to make it interesting but the whole thing is totally runnable!
March 28, 2019February 18, 2019Beautiful little hike.
January 17, 2019loveliest
January 13, 2019Relatively easy and somewhat busy loop, with a bits of steepness. Great views throughout, a few decent climbing trees, and lots of gorgeous (and poisonous) mushrooms.
October 15, 2018Nice and rather short, easy to add more miles to it
September 1, 2018Beautiful hike however I missed the switchback and ended up going a bit further and ended up by a horse corral lol. There was a short bit after the horse corral where the trail was poorly maintained but thankfully I saw some more hikers making me feel a bit more at ease. Note to self, don’t do this part of the hike alone-or maybe I was just a bit paranoid? All in all, beautiful hike that ended up to be 3.7 miles that clocked in at about 1.5 hours.
June 24, 2018Good trail for a hot day, lots of tree coverage. Needed to check the map a few times as there are not any signs to keep you on the loop. Also at one point the trail is gated off and we had to go around a horse arena to get back on the trail. Overall it was nice, only a few ppl along the way and very quiet.
April 24, 2018Great hike with lots of shade. Golden Spike trail is fascinating with some narrow passages and lots of back and forth amidst redwood trees and a few streams. Enough climbs to keep it interesting but on the east side of moderate.
March 18, 2018This hike was full of pleasant twists and turns! Beautiful Bay Tree canopies, redwoods, a good variety of trail terrain, from fire road, to steep and rocky. I waited till it stopped raining and went right up to the trailhead at the Ranger Station, so I could experience the running streams! I wasn’t disappointed. NOTE: AllTRrails map is not accurate. Look up http://www.fojmp.org/map/. And there are lots of spit trails off the main ‘marked’ trails, partly because of the single track riders, and shortcuts in a very popular park.
November 26, 2017Lovely hike. The only issue we had was that the “loop” includes more than just Dunn trail. We got off track a couple times thinking we should stay only on Dunn.
October 28, 2017Perfect mix of sun and shade. Note that you have to take Serpentine and Goldenspike trails to get to Dunn if you are starting counterclockwise from the south. No benches or water fountains on the trail.
September 8, 2017Not many people far away from city Good work out Natural
September 5, 2017I'm 6 months pregnant and this was a good workout for me. This is a moderate hike with relatively mild ascends and descends if you tackle it counter clockwise. Lots of shade, beautiful redwoods, and nice views. The only downside were the horse piles near the beginning and end of the trail.
August 3, 2017It is an awesome trail!! Minor issue I encountered was having to maneuver around the horse piles in the middle of the trail
