Hello everyone! This is a friendly reminder that any of these fun places we may visit, we are a guest at. Please treat both businesses and trails with the utmost respect. We here at Hidden San Diego follow the 'Leave no Trace' mantra, meaning whatever you bring with you comes back with you. If you see trash on a trail, please do your part to help remove it. Remember, we are not picking up trash from another person but instead cleaning up for Mother Nature. Happy adventures!
We are no longer offering directions to this spot due to the eroding of the trail from too much foot traffic.
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Personal Experience: This trail kind of goes hand in hand with Mushroom Beach, which is located in La Jolla, due to the strange nature-made formations that you will come across.
Be prepared for a mini adventure which is not necessarily safe. This trail is completely made of sandstone after all, which can crumble at any moment. It is never safe to explore this trail after a rainfall as the sandstone becomes far weaker and is more likely to come apart. People have been greatly injured here due to hiking after a storm. With that said, you can look forward to crawling down sand steps, walking across a plank and a climbing down rope to get to the beach. Are you ready?
There are pretty cool slot canyons here, offering an alternate route to the shore:
Peter pham
As a Vietnamese communist refugee from Vietnam. Communist is not anything I glorified. Ho Chi Minh was not our leader but a terror to my people. I would request to change the name to something else. Thank you.
August 10, 2015
Bobbing for apples
Peter, go hide in your safe space. This wasn’t named for offensive reasons. As a caucasian, I would like to request that the name of crackers be changed to “wafers”, as I find it offensive to my people. Thank you.
April 23, 2016
Admin
Peter, I respect your wishes but I did not name it, merely posted my adventure while visiting it.
April 24, 2016
Simon Kuang
I’m gay
August 9, 2016
Wade
The inclusion of this trail on this website is leading to its destruction. The foot traffic has increased ten fold in the past 6 months. La Jolla surfers have been using this trail unhindered for years and now it is jam packed with families and other hikers. Some spots are meant to stay hidden. Someone is going to get hurt, the easement is going to be closed and those of us who have been using it daily since we were kids are going to be SOL
January 3, 2017
Tran
Why on EARTH is this trail named after a communist leader? That is nothing to be proud of. I don’t understand how Vietnamese Americans in California haven’t caught wind of this and asked for a change of name.
April 11, 2017
Anonymous
Ho Chi Minh is not a hero to Vietnamese The name reminded to Vietnamese refugees like Hitler / Nazi to Jews. Please change this awful name for the beautiful San Diego, land of the proud Marines and Navy Seals
August 15, 2017
Nam
How would people enjoy this trails as it named with a known communist mass murder man.
August 15, 2017
BaoLong Nguyen
We are asking the leaders of San Diego to change the trail’s name. Ho Chi Minh is a murderer and he is everything against what America stands for. We will not forget the favor if you take the name down.
August 15, 2017
Anonymous
ho chi minh is one of the top murderers in the world. I don’t understand why people, especially a famous university in California, glorify him.
August 15, 2017
Anonymous
Please remove that bloody , killer Name.
August 16, 2017
Anonymous
LOL, communist murderer Ho Chi Minh wants to see Black Beach with full of nude American girls!
August 31, 2017
Andy Tran
murder-killer = ho chi minh = hitler = fidel-castro = mao-zedong and google map associates with them, boycott google …
October 1, 2017