Batteries to Bluffs

Campbell Grading Inc. was hired to design and construct a pedestrian trail called the Batteries to Bluffs trail in San Francisco.

The trail begins at Battery Crosby South and continues along the Coastal Bluffs to the parking area near Battery West. The trail includes a spur trail built into the rocks leading down to Marshall Beach.  The design objective was to create a sustainable trail along the bluffs that provided the users an exceptional and unusual experience apart from the surrounding coastal trails. Campbell Grading Inc. accomplished this by creating a meandering trail through the natural landscape, which left only minimal impacts on the land.

As part of the trail construction, we built several hundred stringer steps, box steps, drain lenses, wet water crossings, two bridges, and an anchored stairway to Marshalls Beach.  In addition we decommission hundreds of feet of social trails and rehabilitate many sections of eroded gullies.

The Batteries to Bluffs Trail was the recipient of the City of San Francisco Trail Beautiful Award and was also named in an international publication as one of the top ten urban hikes.