Advice - Running in Seattle

Used to do a loop around the lake - then through Ravenna Park to the Burke Gilman Trail - west to Fremont. Then back up the hill north to Greenlake. I've alway run through Ravenna, never any loops in Ravenna.

That's a decent loop, about 7 miles total (3 for L, 4 r.t. to Ravenna PK). Have you run in Rav Pk before? Fairly easy to find the trails and you could easily add 2-4 miles, and for additional miles you can run down to Burke-Gilman and the UW.

flatliner wrote:

That's a decent loop, about 7 miles total (3 for L, 4 r.t. to Ravenna PK). Have you run in Rav Pk before? Fairly easy to find the trails and you could easily add 2-4 miles, and for additional miles you can run down to Burke-Gilman and the UW.

No, never been around Green Lake or in Ravenna Park before. Is it easy to get lost on the trails in Ravenna Park? Or is it pretty idiot proof?

Discovery Park

Redmond Watershed Trails

UW Arboretum

Cougar Mountain trails

Tiger Mountain Trails

St. Edwards Trails

Bridal Trails

Seward Park

just to name a few....

stay way from green lake unless you want to breath in polution equivelent to something like 5 cigarettes per lap, and have it be overcrowded with not even that great a surface to run on.

Ravenna is pretty much idiot-proof. Just go up and out and you hit a street. The other areas listed are much easier to get lost/disoriented. Green Lake isn't pristine but not near as bad as the above poster makes it out. Just flat with lots of people, which I don't mind, but I live in this city and like people.