Just saw the video and was wondering if anyone knows any good 8-11 mile routes in and around the UCLA area. I don't have a car. but can bike a reasonable distance.
Any good trails/routes near UCLA?
College Running
-
30
-
Head through the neighborhoods north of San Vicente Rd and run forever up Sullivan Canyon from the trail head. If UCLA doesn't train there, they're dumb.
70 -
No!
01 -
thanks!!
10 -
West Mandeville Canyon Fire road gives you access to dozens of miles of dirt trails across multiple open space preserves and state parks and is leas than 4 mile walk / ride from Campus.
Runyan Canyon is 7 miles aways and while it can get crowded offers access to the hollywood sign and amazing 360 views.
40 -
If you have time to take a bus (route 602), I recommend checking out Los Liones Trail (great view from a spur on the Parker Mesa overlook nice day) and you can go up from there for a long way.
Or you can take a bus to Will Rogers State Park and go for a long run up that trail and around that area.
Google Maps will help you figure out the bus line.
30 -
If you have the time to take a longer bus ride, you can go to Zuma Beach and run on the sand up Zuma Beach. You can go south and run up into Pt Dume State Park for a short little loop that is really cool. The very south end of Zuma aka Westward Beach aka Free Zuma is where a ton of TV shows and movies are filmed.
Go north/west and you will run along a packed beach in the summer up and then ggo up through Trancas Beach up Broad Beach (super expensive homes and be sure to stay to below the mean tide line along this stretch as the locals are known to hire private security to harass anyone who go above the high tide line).
Or you can do a mix of run along the beach on the sand and on PCH and go up to El Matador State Beach. Lots of movies and professional photos are filmed there. It isn't that far from Zuma.
Or if you want hills you can go do a scenic but tough 10.7 Zuma-Trancas loop. No water along this route so make sure you run with some. It is a tough 10.7 mile run.30 -
westridge canyon is also an excellent trail for a long run...
10 -
#9
This post was removed.
-
Looks like the excess rain lead to part of the Zuma Trancas loop becoming overgrown.
You could always go up Zuma Ridge and then go onto the Backbone Trail towards Kanan. The Zuma Ridge is a big fire road. And that section of the Backbone Trail is pretty cool single track for a fun out and back. It is a lot of uphill on the way out with great ocean views coming back down.
backbone trail near Kanan -ages10 -
18rabbitskiing wrote:
West Mandeville Canyon Fire road gives you access to dozens of miles of dirt trails across multiple open space preserves and state parks and is leas than 4 mile walk / ride from Campus.
Runyan Canyon is 7 miles aways and while it can get crowded offers access to the hollywood sign and amazing 360 views.
What’s it take to drive four miles in LA, like 40 minutes?
00 -
Very good trails suggested so far. If you don’t mind asphalt, plenty of routes you can do right from campus. Classic long run for me was just crossing the VA down to San Vicente and taking the greenway down to Ocean Ave (about 12 total). Hillier option from campus is to follow Bellagio road until it branches off then cross Beverly Glen up towards Harvard-Westlake, then you can follow most roads back down to sunset and extend it through Beverly Hills or head back on wilshire or through Holmby park back to campus. Not much traffic in the higher roads and surprising how long you can go before coming to major intersection. Again, these can be done straight from the dorms/apartments but are all asphalt.
MoVB
00
What People Are Talking About On LetsRun
No top threads at the moment. Check back soon.