Start in Edgartown, and then take the road south to the beach. If you're into the uber-wealthy homes, you'll see them on your left. Ernie Boch's compound is probably my favorite. Then you're just along the South Beach and it's incredible. Or. you can take the path that leads you to Oak Bluffs, and over the famous Jaws bridge. Whole island is beautiful.
-
00
-
Absolute best was Iceland. Laugavegur Trail was unlike anything else. Myvatn was pretty amazing as well.
Through the botanical gardens and down past the opera house in Sydney.
Grand Canyon
Through and around Cortina d'Ampezzo
Leadville
Lake Lucerne
Way too many others to list.
50 -
Spring Lake, NJ. I've run in major cities and resorts all over the world but my favorite is close to home. Big mansions along Ocean Ave are great but even better are the well kept mansions all over the first few blocks in from the beach. The setting is very affluent yet with a real home town feeling.
00 -
Titus Canyon. 26 miles thru the Nevada desert and then down into Death Valley.00
-
....Spring Lake is also home to one of the biggest 5 mile races in the country if you want to see it for yourself.
00 -
Bear lake road in Colorado
10 -
Pacific Coast Highway through Carmel.
10 -
Cornish coast path from Penzance towards Landsend. Couldn't do it now, but breathtaking.
00 -
Squamish, BC, Canada.
Interesting and challenging yet runnable low-mountain trails, massive trees, creeks, waterfalls, views to the ocean. If you know, you know.
10 -
The best track and arguably the best place I've run on was the one in Mammoth Lakes. Great for altitude training, no crowds to deal with, and spectacular views.
Here's a picture I found:
50 -
another causal observer wrote:
Start in Edgartown, and then take the road south to the beach. If you're into the uber-wealthy homes, you'll see them on your left. Ernie Boch's compound is probably my favorite. Then you're just along the South Beach and it's incredible. Or. you can take the path that leads you to Oak Bluffs, and over the famous Jaws bridge. Whole island is beautiful.
Martha's Vineyard 20 miler is a great way to run the island if you don't mind the cold (IIRC it's in February). As a bonus, everything's much cheaper/quieter in the winter.
00 -
The best area that I have ever run in or through was probably Memphis or Philadelphia because anywhere away from my registered sex offender uncle is great.
02 -
The wh*teness of Martha's Vineyard triggers me. I wish it was more diverse (our strength), but at the same time I don't want poor Latinx to lower property values.
411 -
Live high, train high wrote:
The best track and arguably the best place I've run on was the one in Mammoth Lakes. Great for altitude training, no crowds to deal with, and spectacular views.
Here's a picture I found:
I've been there as well. In addition to what you wrote, it's pretty well maintained and open to the public, which is always a positive. But that track is only runnable for half the year unless you like shoveling snow and slipping on black ice.
00 -
A1 Mountain, Flagstaff. In the late 70s and early 80s, it was a true distance runners paradise...
10 -
need somewhere warm wrote:
Live high, train high wrote:
The best track and arguably the best place I've run on was the one in Mammoth Lakes. Great for altitude training, no crowds to deal with, and spectacular views.
Here's a picture I found:
I've been there as well. In addition to what you wrote, it's pretty well maintained and open to the public, which is always a positive. But that track is only runnable for half the year unless you like shoveling snow and slipping on black ice.
It's closed from November 1 to March 31. Beautiful track, though:
20 -
teachertaylor wrote:
Nicest scenery: Either through Zion National Park (UT), or through Acadia National Park (coast of Maine) up Cadillac Mountain.
Wealthiest neighborhood: probably some of the rich suburbs near Washington D.C in NW. I don't find rich neighborhoods fun to run in. In fact, I find their progressive identity politics yard signs an infuriating sign of terrible leftist politics gone awry.
Originally from bar harbor in northwest harbor near acadia. Such a great area.
10 -
I had the good fortune to live in Wellington, NZ in the early 1980's. Pretty much anywhere in the city and its inner 'burbs would be at the top of my list: lush, hilly, beautiful and well maintained homes, ocean/harbor, etc. On my first weekend long run with the running club I joined they said the loop would be just under 9 miles. Kinda low-key, I thought. But it seemed in places to go straight up or plummet down (the kind of downhill where you're "braking" all the time and can't relax). There was no reliable way to measure elevation gain and loss, but it had to be in the 1,000s. I was duly chastened, and ready for more once my calves stopped screaming. Go to Google Street View and look around. Definitely a spectacular place to run (and made all the better for having Walker, Dixon, Roe, Audain at/near their peak and having the average Kiwi appreciate them!)
10 -
San Clemente, Calif - El Camino Real - early evening - Christmas season. The Best!
00 -
rollinghillsftw wrote:
In contrast to the worst, what are some of the best places you've run through? Whether it be for trail system, homes, people, etc.
-Jackson Hole Wyoming / Grand Teton National Park are some of the nicest places I've run. Amazing people, trails, and you can't beat a constant view of the Tetons throughout the run. Plus being at ~7,000ft of altitude can't hurt.
-In contrast, by far the worst place I've run is Oakland California, homeless people, trash, broken glass and bottles, the city radiating heat. I felt like I was going to be mugged throughout the run00
What People Are Talking About On LetsRun
No top threads at the moment. Check back soon.