Beautiful vistas aren’t the only intriguing sights during a Bay Area hike . Sometimes there are vehicles. Abandoned vehicles. The kind that are being reclaimed by Mother Nature that you find corroding off to the side of a hiking trail on Mount Tamalpais or refashioned into a footbridge on the Peninsula.
These rusty, stripped frames from antiquated cars all seem to share at least some common characteristics: They’re decades old and how they got there is usually a mystery. Or a tragedy.
I first stumbled onto this odd vehicular trend at a city park in Belmont. The Rambler Trail, in Hidden Canyon Park, is aptly titled since it passes over a bridge created on what looks like an old Nash Rambler — steering wheel intact…