Cowles Mountain’s main trailhead is located at 7001 Golfcrest Drive. It leads up to San Diego’s tallest peak, at 1,593 feet. The city treasure offers breathtaking views at the summit – particularly at ...

Barker Way Trail and the Cowles Mountain Trail. This route is a welcomed change from the more well-known out-and-back route up the peak that starts on Golfcrest Drive. Cowles Mountain, the tallest ...

About a dozen other hikers were nearby Sunday morning when a young man running down the popular Cowles Mountain trail in San Carlos stopped and fired a gun at a group of young men holding rocks ...

If popularity is any indication of quality, then the Cowles Mountain trail from the staging area at the intersection of Golfcrest Drive and Navajo Road is among the best in San Diego, if not the best.

San Diego Fire-Rescue Department crews responded Monday to two open-space rescues on the Cowles Mountain trail in the Mission Trails Regional Park. The first call came in just before 11:30 a.m ...

The main trailhead leading to the peak of 1591-foot-high Cowles Mountain is scheduled to reopen May 18, a date coinciding with Explore Mission Trails Regional Park Day, a celebration for the park ...

With 65 miles of lush trails, a historic mission dam and the highest mountain in the city of San Diego, Mission Trails ...

Happy Birthday! Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of Cowles Mountain at Mission Trails Regional Park. Its purchase and preservation in 1974 was a pivotal moment in the park’s history ...