Memorial Park in Houston is really nice now. They are spending $200 million to fix it up. Crushed granite. Have rerouted much of the 3-mile trail away from the road. Added a lake and many other items. Really scenic now.
Out of curiosity, how many continuous miles of crushed granite does it have?
It doesn't have that many miles of crushed granite - the main trail is only 3 miles with a one-mile parallel trail.
Yeah, I wouldn't really count some of those as "city" parks as they are not completely surrounded by city. You could be in Chugak and be hundreds of miles from Anchorage. Shelby Farms is in the heart of an urban area. It's not a state park, national park, or federal preserve. It's five times the size of Central Park. Beautiful area with lots of trails. And, it's free!
Memorial Park in Houston is really nice now. They are spending $200 million to fix it up. Crushed granite. Have rerouted much of the 3-mile trail away from the road. Added a lake and many other items. Really scenic now.
Out of curiosity, how many continuous miles of crushed granite does it have?
Here's a decent breakdown of the park trails. Once they finish the land bridge over memorial drive, the connected trail system will be massive for an inner city park.
The wissahickon park in Philly is fantastic, and you can bike there from center city entirely along the Schuylkill River trail and passing through some nice parts of fairmount park too
In love running in parks so whenever I travel that’s the first place I go. My all-time favorites which include some already listed:
City Park New Orleans, City Park Denver, Golden Gate, Van Cortland, Central Park, Humboldt Park + Boulevards, Forest Park(both of them), Rock Creek, Sugar House, Flatwoods, Griffith Park, Arboretum
Leif Erikson is 11 miles plus through a forest with rolling hills and mostly fully shaded. Excellent in the summer.
Then there are more traditional single track trails like wildwood.
I find most Portland runners are either Team Lief or Team Wildwood and not both. I’m in the Leif camp but how many cities have two different trail system of the quality and variety? Forest Park is a great running resource.
This is the answer. Many others are saying massive state parks on the outskirts of cities that I would not really count. Rock Creek Park runs right down the center of DC, has a ~4 mile mostly flat road with no traffic running down its center, fantastic runnable trails on either side (can choose hilly or flat), and other hilly roads to choose from on the sides.
Not true, Fairmount Park in Philadelphia is largest urban park.
with paved flat trails along the river drives, trails, the Belmont Plateau cross country course. The Wissahickon, Forbidden Drive, Pennypack Parks flat side and hilly side trails (used by Uber Endurance’s races) which also connect to extensive suburban rails to trails possibilities
