This region corresponds to the Mount Diablo map from Redwood Hikes Press.
| Rating | Length, miles | Climbing, feet | Trail name |
| Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve | |||
| ★★ | 7.3 | 1560 | The Star Mine Trail |
| ★★ | 5.4 | 980 | The Ridge Trail |
| Mount Diablo State Park | |||
| ★★★ | 14.1 | 3800 | Mount Diablo |
| ★ | 7.9 | 1650 | Wall Point and Green Valley |
| Diablo Foothills Regional Park | |||
| ★★★ | 6.4 | 1100 | The Stage Road Loop |
| Round Valley Regional Preserve | |||
| ★★ | 4.6 | 970 | The Hardy Canyon Loop |
| Morgan Territory Regional Preserve | |||
| ★★ | 7.9 | 1060 | The Tassajara Creek Trail |
| ★ | 10.5 | 1880 | Sulphur Springs and Highland Ridge |
| ★ | 5.9 | 300 | The Volvon and Blue Oak Trails |
| Los Vaqueros Watershed | |||
| ★★ | 5.4 | 1150 | Eagle Ridge and Vista Grande |
| ★ | 10.2 | 1900 | Peninsula Crest and Oak Savanna |
| ★ | 5.6 | 530 | Los Vaqueros and West Loop |
| ★ | 4.2 | 940 | The Valley View Trail |
| Brushy Peak Regional Preserve | |||
| ★ | 5 | 1030 | The Brushy Peak Loop Trail |
| Rating | Open | Price | Campground name |
| Mount Diablo State Park | |||
| ★★★ | All year | $30 + $8 | Juniper Campground |
| ★★★ | All year | $30 | Junction Campground |
| ★ | All year | $30 + $8 | Live Oak Campground |
| Rating | Open | Price | Campground name |
| Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve | |||
| ★★★ | Apr–Oct | $5 | Stewartville Backpack Camp |
| Morgan Territory Regional Preserve | |||
| ★★★★ | Apr–Oct | $5 + $8 | Morgan Backpack Camp |
A popular suburban park with a nice variety of scenery, including open rolling hills and a wooded valley.
A very popular park just outside Antioch that offers mine tours and miles of rolling grass- and oak-covered hills.
The chaparral-covered Mount Diablo has some of the best views in the Bay Area, although the trails themselves aren’t that attractive.
A popular park outside Brentwood with some very scenic blue oak groves and open cow pastures.
An attractive, remote area of partially-wooded hills east of Mount Diablo.
In the stark, treeless landscape north of Livermore, Brushy Peak stands out because it’s capped with a little oak grove.
A huge property east of Mount Diablo with a lot of little-used trails through open grassland.
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