Climbing In California

What is this hiking place called? it’s in the Bay Area in California?

Someone told me about a place where we can go hiking and they said there were a bunch of rocks and boulders that you can climb on. It’s somewhere in the Bay Area in California.

Mt. Diablo State Park is east of San Francisco near the cities of Danville and Walnut Creek and has an area where you can climb on the rocks….it’s even called Rock City. Learn more about this state park at http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=517

I hope this helps!

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