Puma & Bobcat Sightings Map
While many people are confident they've seen a puma, not all of these sightings are accurate. The map below includes both confirmed and unverified puma sightings in the larger San Francisco Bay region (and beyond) since 2004.
Over time, this will help us evaluate problem areas, movement barriers for wildlife, and potential for human-puma conflict.
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Sightings List
Sep 13, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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4 Bobcats traveling together
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.65653 N, 121.83898 W
Sep 11, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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Bobcat walked thru backyard
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.23400 N, 121.93000 W
Sep 10, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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Seen around noon.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.10663 N, 121.58519 W
Sep 9, 2025: Puma Sighting
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i was enojying the night view on 28 mile road by the bridge , it was 11 pm dark time very silent .as i was staring into the lake on the bridge , i heard a very very large growl .the growl similar to a mountain lion . i own 2 dogs and 2 cats . so i know what a growl sounds like . i ran back into my car and locked the doors and left scared . in this same area 2 years ago i saw a mountain lion 2 years ago same area daytime but i was driving 35 mph and it was running faster than my car and crossed the street in front of me and dashed into the empty foot hills . i pass thorugh 28 mile alot of times and its very very rare to encounter a mountain lion or a mountain lion growling at you .
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.85274 N, 120.83368 W
Sep 8, 2025: Puma Sighting
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Uncollared puma
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.32167 N, 122.27221 W
Sep 8, 2025: Puma Sighting
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this puma visits our property every month.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 38.53391 N, 123.06515 W
Sep 7, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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A bobcat was directly on Mine Hill Road about 0.2 miles up the road from the parking lot. I saw it about 100 feet away, and waved my arms and made a little noise. It stared at me awhile, then turned and went into the brush.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.17433 N, 121.82754 W
Sep 7, 2025: Puma Sighting
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She's been hanging around for a week or so. Almost caught a deer in this same spot earlier in the week.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.35100 N, 122.14000 W
Sep 7, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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It smelled around my hot tub where raccoons regularly go.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.54139 N, 122.36053 W
Sep 6, 2025: Puma Sighting
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Collared Puma seen right next to our front porch/door
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.09300 N, 122.00000 W
Sep 5, 2025: Puma Sighting
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I was riding my bike from Inspiration Point and saw the mountain lion from about the length of a basketball court away. It was about 20 feet off the trail to the west side. This area was mostly open grass with a few trees and bushes. I stopped right away and thought maybe I was seeing things and it was really logs or something. I waited a bit and then beeped my bike horn and it looked straight at me. We just watched each other for about a total of 3 minutes. During that time it went up in a nearby tree. Then it came down the tree. It started to walk away over the ridge line and seeing it walk confirmed to me it was a mountain lion. It was much too big to be a bobcat, and the way it moved was classic big cat movement with very muscular shoulders. It did not look like a coyote. It never approached me. I left after it walked away.
I am not sure I marked it correctly on the map. I encountered the mountain lion about a mile or two from the dividing line from Tilden into Wildcat Canyon, just a bit north of the top end of San Pablo Reservoir.
I have been to Tilden park hundreds of times and this was the first time I ever saw a mountain lion and it was quite unexpected.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.92340 N, 122.25103 W
Sep 5, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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Low quality video, but looks like a Bobcat came by at 3:55am today.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.88151 N, 122.10375 W
Sep 4, 2025: Puma Sighting
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My husband and I heard a strange sound like a child whining outside our window after our kids went down to bed.
We looked out the window and saw an adolescent mountain lion on a mound of topsoil just outside our window. It’s extremely long tail, odd screechy sound and size all pointed to it being a wildcat.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.98191 N, 122.51700 W
Sep 4, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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This bobcat was seen at the bottom of the hill just off the paved trail (about 20 ft) resting in the brush around 5:15 pm. It was seen again near the top of the hill about 8-10ft off the trail at the dead end of Rock Oak Road.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.93966 N, 122.00881 W
Sep 3, 2025: Puma Sighting
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Juvenile puma seen in back yard, coming from 662 Escalona to 700 Escalona, then jumped over back fence to 1044 Laurent St.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 36.97482 N, 122.04241 W
Sep 2, 2025: Puma Sighting
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Leaving Bolinas Cemetary at 4am mountain lion caught on video
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.92147 N, 122.69316 W
Sep 2, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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Bobcat caught on Blink hunting in backyard.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.65653 N, 121.83898 W
Sep 1, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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Hanging out about 50yds from busy trail on Labor Day.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.21393 N, 121.88503 W
Aug 29, 2025: Puma Sighting
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two deer are grazing in the backyard. the hear something so they freeze. then you hear heavy panting (the puma or the deer? i think it's the puma) and then the deer streak across the backyard. moments later you see the puma (watch for the eye glow) in the upper right corner of the frame. after a short pause, the puma walks around the other side of the house.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.35100 N, 122.14000 W
Aug 28, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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Bobcat has been spotted by multiple neighbors for multiple weeks (on and off). Drinking water, hunting, hanging out.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.76480 N, 121.95444 W
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