I'm specifically looking for nice mountain bike trails in the East Bay or South Bay. Please include any links to maps with trails. Thanks!
2007-01-08 14:20:38 · 4 answers · asked by l.marie 3 in Sports ➔ Cycling
There are several good routes in the Bay Area... while the best routes are in Marin County, many of those involve varying degrees of inclines. Will you be riding a mountain bike or road bike?
The Bay Trail provides a smooth and beautiful excursion around the entire San Francisco Bay. The circumnavigation has not yet been completed, but maps can be found at the link below. The flattest areas can be found in the South Bay near Alviso/Santa Clara/Sunnyvale/Mountain View, where the dykes from the Cargill Salt Ponds have been converted to trails within extensive wetlands preserves. Check out the Alviso Salt Ponds restoration project and wetlands reserve. there are extensive well-maintained trails on the dykes with views of diverse wetland wildlife.
Silicon Valley also has extensive on-street bike lanes - perhaps better than any other city in the Bay area. Riding from Google/Yahoo/Moffet Field to Stanford University along Old Middlefield Rd to E Charleston to Park Blvd is a nice route.
If you are brave, try Rt. 1 (PCH) from Pacifica to Santa Barbara next April after the rains stop - the flowers are beautiful and the views spectacular.
For more local, yet challenging rides, try Mount Tamalpais and surrounding open spaces during the dry season, so as not to destroy the trails and pollute the streams for spawning salmon with erosion runoff.
Have fun!
2007-01-08 15:55:08 · answer #1 · answered by Cagey 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Road Bike Trails Bay Area
2016-10-21 12:04:04 · answer #2 · answered by gammons 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marin does have a super form of mind-blowing trails (mountain cycling comes from Marin). I used to bypass to Jack London State Park in Glen Ellen and Annadell (?) close to Santa Rosa. They constantly had advantageous trails with a super form of form.
2016-10-30 09:43:21 · answer #3 · answered by deliberato 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try this link http://www.bikely.com/listpaths/srchkey/San+Francisco+
There are almost 300 listed from easy to hard. directions gps co-ordinates and links to google earth.
There are thousands from all over the world for everyone else too.
2007-01-08 19:25:05 · answer #4 · answered by Glenn B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋