Walk Santa Barbara Pocket Guide: Best Walks In And Around the City

Welcome to what just might be the most walk-able city on the West Coast. Discover Santa Barbara's secret stairways, hidden gardens and magical paseos. Step into the city's rich history and admire its signature Spanish architecture. Explore the contemporary scene, too, with walks into the Funk Zone, to shops, galleries and tasting rooms. Surprises everywhere. A good time guaranteed.

Get a lively look at the city's signature Spanish Revival style and must-see attractions from the Courthouse to Stearns Wharf.
Enjoy walks to shops, galleries, tasting rooms, plus walks for Foodies, Families, and yes, Health and Fitness!
Discover SB's hidden paseos, the Riviera's secret stairways and gardens, and ìThe Best Last Placeî (Santa Barbara Cemetery).

Perfect for your pocket or pack, Trailmaster Pocket Guides feature colorful stories, trusted trail accounts, and easy-to-follow maps for two dozen of the best day hikes in a region. Carefully crafted, handsomely designed, with top quality printing in the USA. High value and low-cost, Trailmaster Pocket Guides make great gifts, sure to delight those special hikers in your life.

Along with WALK Santa Barbara, check out the other popular Trailmaster Pocket Guides, including HIKE Santa Barbara and COAST WALKS Santa Barbara.


About the Author


John McKinney is the author of 30 books about hiking, parklands and nature, including The Hiker's Way and Hiking on the Edge: Dreams, Schemes, and 1600 Miles on the California Coastal Trail.

For 18 years, John, aka The Trailmaster, wrote a weekly hiking column for the Los Angeles Times, and has hiked and enthusiastically described more than ten thousand miles of trail across America and around the world. The intrepid Eagle Scout has written more than a thousand articles about hiking plus numerous trail guidebooks, including HIKE Southern California: A Day Hiker's Guide and Day Hiker's Guide to California's State Parks.

One of the nation's top hiking experts, John is particularly passionate about sharing the trails of his home state of California. John solo-hiked the entire California coast while pioneering the California Coastal Trail and is the only one to have visited, hiked - and written about - all 270 California State Parks.

When John McKinney says, Take a hike! people do. Many people - hikers and not - credit John's talks and books with inspiring them to hit the trail to a better life. John and his team created The Trailmaster Pocket Guides to share the best day hikes around California, and to give hikers the information they need in an engaging and easily accessible way.

A passionate advocate for hiking and our need to reconnect with nature, John McKinney shares his expertise on radio, TV, online, and as a public speaker. John has been featured or interviewed in major media from the Los Angeles Times to NPR to ABC World News, and appeared on numerous regional talk shows and news programs. Organizations that ask John to share his tips, trails, and inspiring tales include: schools and colleges, churches and retreats, the health and wellness community and conservation and trails organizations.

As John explains it, I've walked a lot of life trails, happy and sad, easy and challenging, and, frankly, more than one path to nowhere. What I've learned along the way I want to share and help others enjoy the benefits of hiking.