{"id":235,"date":"2010-05-06T14:40:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T22:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2010-05-08T15:00:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T23:00:49","slug":"hiking-santa-barbara-mcmenemy-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/hiking-santa-barbara-mcmenemy-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking Santa Barbara – McMenemy Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

The McMenemy Trail<\/a> is nestled in the foothills of Montecito, CA and offers a nice day hike with great views of Santa Barbara. The trail is accessible either directly from Mountain Drive in Montecito, or via the San Ysidro Canyon Trail (which also starts from Mountain Drive, about 1.5 miles east). This is where I started the trail; it seems to be a popular spot for many and accommodates walkers, runners, bikes and horses.<\/p>\n

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The McMenemy trail begins a half mile into the San Ysidro trail, cutting off left (to the west). After crossing a creek, it climbs steadily upward until you reach the stone bench commemorating the trail. After that it dips down for about a half mile before beginning to climb upwards one last time before the final descent. If you hike straight across, you’ll see about 850 feet in elevation gain over a little under two miles (although the actual trail is longer, the rest of it is downhill).<\/p>\n

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For most people, they hike out the same way they came in (and back to their car). Hiking up the bench and back makes a nice hike of about 3 miles. The bench area also provides great views of the coastline and the Santa Barbara area. Although it’s in the sun, it makes a nice rest spot.<\/p>\n

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If you’re looking for more, instead of hiking straight across and back there is a nice loop you can take that extends the total to about 6 miles. You will see a sign for the Girard Trail as you’re passing the bench. If you keep going on the McMenemy Trail for a little less than a mile, you’ll find another trail going off to your right for Saddlerock. Following the Saddlerock Trail will have you hiking the ridge to the north until you finally meet up with the Girard Trail and end up back at the bench.<\/p>\n

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Overall, this is a great hike both for those experienced and those looking to get into hiking. While the elevation gain may prove a challenge to those not in shape, the distance is short enough to not provide too much of a challenge. The views are great and the trail is popular and well maintained.<\/p>\n

For more information, the website SantaBarbaraHikes.com offers step by step instructions here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hiking Santa Barbara! The McMenemy Trail is nestled in the foothills of Montecito, in the Santa Barbara Front Country. This trail is great for both experienced hikers and those new to the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,40,102,103,104],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-exercise","tag-fun","tag-hiking","tag-nature","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}