❊ ABOUT US ❊
OUR MISSION
City Gurlz Hike is an urban hiking and community programming series for Black, Indigenous, and other racialized women and gender expansive folks to play, connect, heal, and liberate through nature. Through its programming, City Gurlz Hike seeks to center Black, Latina, and Indigenous women in San Francisco’s great outdoors and beyond.
OUR STORY
City Gurlz Hike was created to address the glaring lack of diverse faces in San Francisco’s outdoor spaces. As a woman of color, our founder would often find herself to be the only brown person on a trail or in a park in San Francisco. Although San Francisco boasts that all of our city’s residents live within 10 minutes of a green space, there is an undeniable lack of diversity in the people who use those green spaces.
Every month, City Gurlz Hike brings 50-70 BIPOC-identifying women and nonbinary folks to San Francisco’s/Bay Area’s outdoors spaces. We have collaborated with partners, including the California State Parks and Save the Redwoods League to lead overnight camping and backpacking trips for
first-time campers. City Gurlz Hike was explicitly founded to center joy, healing, and community for those who have not traditionally felt welcome in outdoor spaces.
Time and time again, research shows that connecting people to nature counters stress, strengthens resilience, and improves overall wellbeing. Many folks in our CGH community identify as people of color, low-income, first-generation, queer, and/or gender nonconforming, and many are first-time campers or hikers.
Daisy Prado, founder of City Gurlz Hike, is an alumna of All Hands Ecology
equity-centered California Naturalist certification course.
