Great to hike, bike and see lots of nature.

A great spot to look across the bay at the hills surrounding the Bay Area. The boardwalk further out towards the bay is closed but you can walk the first 100 feet or so. Great spot to watch the sunset and enjoy the amazing views and wildlife.

Walk it on your own or hear what Baylands life is truly like with docents. Great for kids age 8 and up. Bring a no-trash lunch and walk the trail. So many wildlife beings live in the marsh. Incredible ecosystem.

Great resource to learn about the history of the bay and the wetlands restoration efforts...Nice hike trails with great and endless views of water, birds, all sorts of animals, and nature in general.

What a peaceful place! The wetlands here have a serenity about them.

Some nice exhibits about the local wildlife. Water fountains, bathroom and wifi also.

The trail is beautiful and easy. Its nice to have a stroll particularly on a sunny and hot day.

Great place to walk and its a peaceful place. Enough parking and we saw artists painting the scenery. We saw some people fishing too.

This was such an interesting and clean place they have fully stocked clean restrooms. Many great sights I especially like how they built boxes for the swallow birds. Really fun way to see them up close

A lovely place to dance the Sun up on May 1st. The Rangers here are lovely people and its a nice place to get out into nature. There is a small airport nearby and you will hear little airplanes but other than that its beautiful place

Marshland and wetland, a convenient place not far from town to enjoy and learn about for the amateurs.

Havent been put here in about 8 years.It sure has changed for the better. Wildlife is pretty abundant. Spent most of the time watching the aircraft. Time well spent!

Nice for an evening stroll and some bird watching.

Need to go back when the center is open, but its still cool!

A wonderful place for a nature walk with knowledge, enthusiastic guides. Great place for kids to learn about the importance of preserving ecosystems.

Nice place for a peaceful walk after a warm afternoon rainstorm

Good for bird watching. Especially, water fowl. Theres a new boardwalk that juts out into the marsh with benches which allows to sit and enjoy you to surrounding.

A lovely place for some bayfront views and perfectly flat terrain. Great way to get some sun. You need to walk a bit to get away from thevtraffic noise, but thats the price for access. Downside is the lack of loops: strictly an out n back deal.

Beautiful place take my kids there n they enjoy it to.

Its fun to go out there different times of the day when the tide changes in and out of the Salt Flats there are all kinds of wonderful decks and other birds and animals that hang out really fun to take your children but do not feed them bread if youre going to take wild bird feed to not hurt those animals you have to either feed them wild bird food or even better pass

Such friendly staff to help educate on biodiversity and importance of this preserved estuary.

Lovely spot on the bay. We stopped and had a nice lunch while my daughter explored the area. Watched the tide roll slowly in. Also enjoyed getting on the boardwalk, but its damaged in parts. Would love to see the county invest in building it back up.

Serene overlook of the bay and Dumbarton bridge with a nice view of the eastern hills beyond the water. Newly built boardwalk is super solid and nice to venture onto.

Great sight seeing and walk

They have a free phone not far from the boat launch area. Its the type you saw everywhere before cell phones. I remember you had to pay 10 cents for 3 minutes

There is a lot of good bike riding and sightseeing out there as well as bird watching if youre into that.

A very pleasant walk on the marshes of Palo Alto; beautiful and a great place to birdwatch and take photos. This is a great area to spot various ducks, shorebirds, egrets, occasionally white pelicans, kites, and hawks. Theyve even seen peregrine falcons here at times. And of course, the non-native (but spectacular) ring-necked pheasant who begs for food!

Great wildlife preserve with more than 10 miles of trails for bird watching, running or biking. Wind-surfing or kayaking is also permitted in this area. I am surprised that so many birds live here peacefully with an adjacent busy airport.

Great place to wonder. Lots of imfo about baylands. Been going here since 80s

Hundreds of swallows nesting on the building. It was closed when we visited - walk around it to get to the new boardwalk.

Very nice views, I go sit at the benches a lot and meditate

Its a beautiful area. Great for walks or bike rides as well as just a relaxing time away from the computer and into nature. Very windy though so bring a coat.

Its beautiful, we walk out there every week

We went on a lovely winter afternoon when the sun was still high but the wind was cooler .. its a delight for the bird watchers .. we saw many birds including the Falcon !! Which is rare in this area . The place has many beautiful trails to have lesuire walks around the preserve . While returning we saw hundreds of birds circling round and round like crazy ! It was a great sight .

Its a cool and nice place. The center provides a lot of useful information on the ecosystem of the bay lands.

Awesome place to connect with nature.

Great trails for biking and walking, though might be windy and no shade. Lots of fun watching air plains landing and taking off.

Brand new boardwalk, with a great view and some peaceful place

Great place to take your kids to

Oh yeah, really love it here. Cozy nature center with aquarium thats nice on a foggy day. Boardwalk out to the wind whipped edge of the bay. Lots of birds. And a short hike to the edge of the airport where you can watch planes from atop a hill.

A nice small reserve

The naturalist has great tours. The staff is friendly. Lot to see and learn.

They were closed but I can already tell the place is awesome!

Like the openess and quiet.

Great place to have a walk and chill a little whenever your corporate overlords are driving you mad.

Great fresh water and salt water marshlands for bird watchers and photographers. Numerous nesting areas for Avocets, Stilts, Pelicans, Night Herons, Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Great Blue Herons, Clapper Rails (including the rarer California Clapper Rails), Brandts Cormorants, Pelagic Cormorants, American White Pelicans, Canadian Geese, Mallard Ducks (many other species of ducks visit the duck pond during the year), Snipes, Harriers, Sandpipers, Long-billed Dowitchers, Gulls, and many other species. Follow the Bay Trail to the south watching the taller trees near the Skunk Works to see nesting Harriers. Great place to photograph birds in flight. Visit several times a year to see various migratory birds. I photograph birds all over the country, but the Bay Trail encircling from the central penninsula around the bay to Hayward offers one of the best wildlife photography experiences in the country. Great place for bicycle day trips if you have a rear bike rack and a set of foam padded panniers for carrying your gear.

Simple and educating

Absolutely beautiful and free!

If it wasnt for the airplanes noise, out would be a perfect relaxing area.

Windy, but a nice place to have a walk or a bike run. Its said to be great for birtwatching, but I guess I came there on a bad day.

Great place for a picturesque walk and to ask the rangers about the areas ecosystem!

Subtly beautiful.

They have rebuilt the boardwalk!

We got there after 2PM and it was already closed.

So pretty out thereGreat hiking

Airfield made it not terrible.

Great place to enjoy the outdoors, a lot of birds.

Beautiful, lots of birds

Excellent

Very informative

Nature center staffed by knowledgeable volunteers.

Peaceful

Beautiful!!!

Beautiful place

Bridge is down and repairs are a long planned affair

I see touches of nature here

Nice little center

Peaceful trails with many birds.

Great place to walk with kids and watch birds.

Wide variety of water birds up close.

Everything natural in such a convenientPlace!!

Nature close to home.

Good place for family.

Exhibit of natural preserve

Nice place

A nice place to spend a couple hours with the kids.