Routes

Short Routes (<10mi)
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• 4.75 Wunderlich Park – 4.74 mi- Woodside, CA- Great hill climb with a really nice bay vista reward in the middle. Easy downhill that really helps with foot turnover.
• Portola Valley 6.5 mile- Portola Valley- Park at Roberts Market at the corner of Alpine Rd & Portola Rd and head out on Alpine Trail for easy rolling hills (mostly) and super sweet single track.
• Edgewood County Park – 4.84 mi- San Carlos, CA- Everything in this park is runnable. Most of the park is exposed. Pulgas Ridge is across the street to the north and Crystal Springs Trail is across the street to the west which will take you to miles of other trails!
• Eaton & Big Canyon- 3 or 4 mile- San Carlos, CA- Eaton has many more trails in it then any map will show you. The forests are really "woodsy" and some of the bridges are really nice. Lots of stairs. No need for a map, these parks are to small to get lost in but definitely worth running.
• Water Dog Lake Park - 5.36 mi- Belmont, CA- Beautiful Park in Belmont with great views of the bay and a few really serious climbs that are short but steep.
• Crystal Springs Cross Country Course- 2.95 mi- Belmont, CA- Crystal Springs Cross Country Course is designed to be one of the easiest courses to follow. There are only a couple of intersections where confusion might result. At these intersections, there are signs to point the way.
• Zoom! Racings Castle Rock race routes - These popular race routes are located in Castle Rock Regional Park in Walnut Creek
• Brazen Racings Badger Cove 10k course - Beautiful running through Del Valle Regional Park in Livermore

Long Routes (>10mi)
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• Canyon View & Eagle View Loop- 10.5 mile- Sunol, CA
• Steep Ravine Race Routes- Stinson Beach, CA
• Wunderlich Full Loop 10.25 mi - Woodside, CA
• Wunderlich & Huddart short loop- 14 mile Woodside, CA
• Skyline Ridge OSP 12 mi- Los Altos, CA
• Huddart Park via Raymundo Dr - 14 mi Redwood City, CA
• San Bruno Mountain- 14.32 mi South San Francisco-
• Huddart/ Wunderlich Loop – 17.75 mi Woodside, CA
• 20.34 mountain goat – 20.34 mi Redwood City, CA
• Los Altos Hills- 24.5 mi Palo Alto, CA
• 26.5 trail/ road/ trail – 26.56 mi Woodside, CA
• The Great Up & Over - 23.38mi Woodside , CA
• Woodside Crossover - Inside Trail Racing's version of the Great Up & Over

San Francisco & The Marin Headlands

• Matt Davis- Steep Ravine- Dipsea Loop- A legendary loop from the Pan Toll Parking Lot.
• Some of the best routes in the Marin Headlands can be found at The Endurables website.
• Most of the popular race routes listed below are ran in the Marin Headlands
• Trail Stompers has a couple great Marin routes you gotta try- 12 miler & 19 miler
• Presidio Marina Run- 5.3 miles just outside the Fishermans Wharf area
• Presidio Extreme- 5.5 mile run through the Presidio/ Chrissy Fields area

Other web resources

• Razorback - 8.8 mile- Windy Hill Open Space Preserve in Portola Valley, CA
• Grizzly Ryder - 7.5 mile- Huddart County Park in Woodside, CA. My brother & I ran this the day after completing the San Francisco Marathon. Nearly killed us!!
• Rancho-San Antonio to Monte Bello 21.6 mile- Los Altos, CA
• Nathan's San Francisco Bay Area Running Trails- A Stanford Trail runner publishing his favorite routes
• My article on the trails of Portola Valley
• Trail Stompers google map of routes
• My article on Laurelwood Park in San Mateo
• East Bay Trails- Website dedicated to its namesake

Popular Race Routes: Tried and true routes that are sure to please!

• The Dipsea- World Famous Muir Woods to Stinson Beach trail.
• The Miwok 100k- Popular ultrarunning trail in the Marin Headlands
• The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 mile - Marin Headlands Area
• TNF 50k - Marin Headlands Area
• TNF Marathon - Marin Headlands Area
• The Woodside Ramble - Huddart County Park in Woodside, CA. This course is used by many race directors many times per year and it is known by many different names but all of them are the same. Here is the map from InsideTrail.com
• Ohlone 50k (Trail Runner Magazine Trophy Series Championship)- Fremont, CA
• Mt Tamalpias 50k- Stinson Beach, Muir Woods Area

 

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