The 150 miles of trails at the Point Reyes National Seashore nearly all began as ranch roads, logging roads, utility routes or military access roads—practical paths cut for work and later repurposed for hikers after the park was formed from a patchwork of private land.
Now, more than six decades later, that inherited network is being reconsidered from the ground up.
A new initiative called Point Reyes Trails Forever, the most ambitious trail-planning effort…