I am going to be in the area for a few weeks and I usually do a couple track workouts a week, long run of up to 16 miles, and the rest are just recovery runs 50-60 minutes a day.
Are there any good parks, trails, and tracks in the area? Any tips or places I should avoid?
Thanks!
There are some nice neighborhoods near Limestone College in Gafney. Maybe look up the Peach Festival 10k course and run it. Lots of hills.
Thanks, anyone else?
USC Upstate has some mountain bike trails that are nice to run on. Southside Park has a great single track trail system with a 9.7 mile loop and lots of interior trails.
don't know if you're able/willing to travel about an hour if so:
I'm the president of the local running club. There are a lot of good places to run. If you like trails, Croft State Park is great (single-track and horse trails), though it costs $2 to get in. You can get a lot of miles in there.
Milliken (hosts a lot of XC meets) is a nice place to run on grass. Spartanburg High School has a mondo track. Neighborhoods to the east of downtown (near the Rail Trail) are nice to run through (Converse Heights, Duncan Park).
Shoot me an e-mail if you want to know anything else. I could join you on a run and show you around, if you're interested.
The Croft State Park trails and Southside Park share a lot of the same trails. $2 parking fee at Southside as well but I'm pretty sure there are no gates to lock at Southside so you can run a little later there.
I live in spartanburg.Converse Heights is a neighborhood in downtown that is a great place to run...and safe. Many places I. spartanburg are not safe to run in. Spartanburg has some cool trails. In town, there is Cottonwood Trail and Duncan Park trails, as well as Milliken research park (USC Upstate runs XC here and the facilities people keep the course mowed year round. South of town is Croft State Park and separate but attached is South Side Park. Paris Mountain is in Greenville and worth the drive for a run.
http://spartanburgconservation.org/properties/cottonwood-trail/
http://www.sctrails.net/Trails/alltrails/mountainbike/CroftMtBike.html
http://www.southcarolinaparks.com/croft/directions.aspx
Croft and south side are hilly. Cottonwood is pretty flat. You can get about 4.5 miles out of Cottonwood, and there are about 20 miles of trail in South side park (the link I sent says 10.5, but this is highly inaccurate. Croft has another 20 miles or so. In town, you can ask where Converse Heights is. Everyone knows. Let me know if you have any more questions.
Thanks for all the info guys. The two larger parks sound like a great place to check out. As well as the nice neighborhoods.
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