Golden Gate, Central Park, what else? Actual cities not the flagstaffs/bolders of the world.
Ideally have some soft surface options
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Griffith Park (LA)
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Van Cortlandt
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Reach 11 in Scottsdale is a hidden gem that I love every winter I visit
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Also, Ft. Snelling in/near Minneapolis, you've got Pike Island, Picnic Island and Snelling lake that all connect to the river trail system with Crosby farm and Minnehaha falls. Easy to get 20 miles in without repeating much and you can get hills or not.
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South Mountain Park in Phoenix. I think it has 50 or 60 miles of desert trails and several access points from different spots in the city. At one point it was the largest city park in the US or world I believe.
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Steele Creek in Bristol.
It depends how you define a city park though, if we can include state parks in cities, or national forest sections in cities the answers will change. For instance Bent Creek Experimental Forest in Asheville is a research station sublet of a national forest, but its in or on the outskirts of a city.
It depends how you define a city too. 100k is probably a city, but is 50k? 20k? 10k?
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Small city with a population of about 20,000, but Anacortes Community Forestland Trails are absolutely fabulous for running.
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Eagle Creek Park, Indianapolis, IN
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Forest Hills Park in Queens is among the best park in NYC, and it has a track as well as hilly, woodchip, forest trails.
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you already said it but having lived and run in many cities over the course of my life, it's really hard to understate how great Central Park is
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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.
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Rock Creek Park, Washington DC
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lagatita wrote:
Griffith Park (LA)
Unless they cleaned it up, this is a great place to get mugged and step in dog doody.
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EatYourVegTables wrote:
Golden Gate, Central Park, what else? Actual cities not the flagstaffs/bolders of the world.
Ideally have some soft surface options
Stay away from Bolders for sure!
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San Diego! Miles of canyon trails, soft, flat, hilly in Balboa park, anything you want!
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Shelby Farms in Memphis, largest urban park in the country.
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Forest Park Portland.
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.
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granfalloon wrote:
Shelby Farms in Memphis, largest urban park in the country.
Shelby Farms is only 4,500 acres. There are a number of parks bigger including Chugak State Park in Alaska which is 464,000 acres.
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Sally Vix wrote:
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?
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