Bay Area Hike to an Abandoned Plane Crash Site from 1953

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Here’s a great free weekend hike idea from SFGATE’s Grant Marek,

Just west of Woodside, California, and buried fairly deep in the El Corte de Madera Creek Preserve, you’ll find the Resolution Trail, part of a commemorative loop that winds through the Kings Mountain canyon and past the crash site of an ill-fated DC-6 commercial airplane that crashed in October 1953 on its approach into SFO.

That was almost 20 years before El Corte de Madera Creek Preserve would even become a preserve.

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Getting to the Resolution Trail actually takes a little bit of work hiking past the Tafoni Trail fork. Today, 67 years after the fact, debris from the crash can still be found throughout the preserve along with the Resolution Aircraft Memorial, which was erected in 2006.

When you see it — a mixture of twisted metal, bolts, springs, washers and even the remains of airplane windows — it’s remarkable to see something like that deep in a nature preserve but also unsettling. It feels like you shouldn’t be looking at it, or even be on this stretch of the trail.

Read the full story of the hike and the history of the site at SFGATE.

Getting There:
Skeggs Point parking area, El Corte de Madera Creek Preserve, 15463 state Route 35, Redwood City. Open daily, 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset.

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