Goat Trails examines the gay nude cruising beaches hidden up and down the coast of California, famous for their hard-to-access, unstable “goat trails”. The hikes hold mythical and sacred qualities, far from society, and the beaches have become places where men cruise for anonymous gay sex. On the edges near the canyon walls, “desire paths” snake through the landscape; unclothed men have developed rituals in walking them, in and out of dense brush and open canyons marked by a single untamed palm tree. Stephen Milner documents these locations as landmarks: without human presence, the nuances of sexual tension remain in the human-altered landscape, and the makeshift structures rarely survive the winter storms.