State: CA Length: 32 miles Surface: Asphalt
The American River Bike Trail (a.k.a. the Jedediah Smith Memorial Trail) hugs the banks of the American River as it flows through riparian habitat preserved by the American River Parkway. The trail runs for 32 miles between Discovery Park in ...
State: CA Length: 12.9 miles Surface: Asphalt
The Arroyo Mocho Trail is a part of a network of multi-use trails in Livermore and which also links with the city of Pleasanton. The trail provides access to neighborhoods, schools, numerous parks, the business district and municipal facilities. ...
State: CA Length: 1.3 miles Surface: Asphalt
A popular trail which runs through Jefferson School Park and Bannon Creek Parkway, utilizing a greenbelt throughout most of its length. South Natomas residents can use Bannon Creek Parkway and Natomas Park Drive to access the American River ...
Rail-Trail
State: CA Length: 0.8 miles Surface: Dirt
The Black Diamond Railroad Trail is within the Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve, a splendid place to visit with a fascinating and unique history. From the 1850s to the early 1900s, the region was the site of the largest coal mining operation ...
State: CA Length: 6.71 miles Surface: Asphalt
Riding alongside one of Stockton's levees, the Calaveras River Bike Trail services many communities and neighborhoods. This east-west corridor provides easy access to many educational institutions including local neighborhood schools, Stagg ...
State: CA Length: 27.5 miles Surface:
From Central Valley Rails to Trails Foundation website: The proposed trail will provide a safe location for hiking, biking, and equestrian travel, and will provide access to numerous planned and existing trails and parks in both Sacramento ...
State: CA Length: 3.2 miles Surface: Crushed Stone
The Clarksburg Branch Line Trail in West Sacramento runs between Jefferson Boulevard at S. River Road and Gregory Avenue where S. River Road loops around and returns. The surface is crushed concrete but plans are to pave the northern segment ...
State: CA Length: 1 miles Surface: Ballast, Dirt
NOTE: Delta Meadows River Park is closed. For more information visit the California State Parks website.
State: CA Length: 15 miles Surface: Asphalt
The Delta de Anza Regional Trail is 15 miles long, running between Willow Pass Road at Route 4 near Concord and Main Street (Rt. 4) at E. Cypress Road in Oakley. The eastern end in Oakley intersects Marsh Creek Trail. The trail also intersects ...
State: CA Length: 7.5 miles Surface: Asphalt
The Dry Creek Parkway is an enjoyable cycling and walking corridor through northern Sacramento County and southern Placer County that includes trails, parks and open space along Dry Creek. Currently, two segments are completed and future plans ...
State: CA Length: 6 miles Surface: Asphalt
This is a paved pathway with a couple of foot bridges and roadway underpasses. You will see many people walking, running, skating, and biking; many people are accompanied by their dogs on leash. At the western end the trail ends near downtown ...
State: CA Length: 12 miles Surface:
The East Bay Greenway is a proposed 12-mile long, $30-35 million rail-with-trail project that will service Oakland, San Leandro, Alameda County and Hayward. This project will partially be funded by a $10.2 million TIGER II federal grant, awarded ...
State: CA Length: 5.5 miles Surface: Asphalt
This right of way spans five and a half miles along an east-west transect in the north part of Stockton. It grants bikers and pedestrians a right of way along the full length of the pass. At this time, there are gaps in the project that have ...
State: CA Length: 13 miles Surface: Concrete, Dirt, Gravel
The college town of Davis is famous for bikability, due in part to the network of neighborhood greenways planned into the community as it grew. This series of bike paths crisscross the eastern part of Davis and links up with the popular South ...
State: CA Length: 11.3 miles Surface: Asphalt, Dirt, Gravel
The El Dorado Trail is a work in progress and will eventually run between the Sacramento County line southeast of the city of Folsom and the Lake Tahoe Basin. Much of the trail is yet undeveloped, and as of 2012, the main paved route runs between ...
State: CA Length: 5 miles Surface: Asphalt
The Folsom Parkway trail corridor extends from historic downtown Folsom to the Iron Point Light Rail station near highway. The trail provides a direct connection to three light rail stations, and two major employment centers within the Lake ...
State: CA Length: 14 miles Surface: Asphalt
Folsom South Canal provides a useful connection from southeast Sacramento County to the American River Bike Trail. The canal was constructed in the 1970s as a part of the Central Valley Project and is operated by the Bureau of Reclamation. The ...
State: CA Length: 9 miles Surface:
The partially abandoned UP tracks through Fremont offer an outstanding opportunity for an urban trail that has multiple connections to other planned and completed trails and the on street bike network. The extension of BART into the area also ...
State: CA Length: 3 miles Surface: Asphalt, Dirt
The Hetch-Hetchy Trail is a 2.8 mile Class 1 Trail on the approximately 100 foot wide right-a-way of the Hetch-Hetchy water pipeline, which is operated by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, extends diagonally east-west through the ...
State: CA Length: 13.3 miles Surface: Asphalt
The Humbug-Willow Creek Trail is really a collection of multi-use trails in the city of Folsom, about 32 miles' worth, and more are planned. The trails snake throughout the city, between Folsom Lake in the north and Alder Creek in the south ...
State: CA Length: 24.5 miles Surface: Asphalt
The area surrounding the Iron Horse Regional Trail has an important history as part of the San Ramon Valley's agricultural and ranching past. Today, the Iron Horse Trail connects two counties and twelve cities. It runs through quiet residential ...
State: CA Length: 3.2 miles Surface: Asphalt
The Isabel Avenue Trail provides a N-S corridor on the western boundary of the city of Livermore. This trail primarily services adjacent neighborhoods on the eastern side of the Isabel Ave/Kitty Hawk Drive. This trail also connects to the Arroyo ...
State: CA Length: 7 miles Surface: Asphalt
The Laguna Creek Parkway contains a variety of paved and dirt trails along the flood control features of Laguna and Elk Grove Creeks. There are several segments of paths, with the longest unbroken section about 2.25 miles long. That segment ...
Although most area residents (and Google Maps) consider the Lake Natoma Trail part of the American River Bike Trail, it is a separate trail in its own right. The Lake Natoma Trail dips and dives over many small rises along the southeast side ...
State: CA Length: 1.1 miles Surface: Asphalt
Although only a mile, the Tahoe City Lakeside Trail is a key connector between the bike paths along the north shore of Lake Tahoe and the Truckee River. The waterfront promenade stretches from the river dam through the Tahoe State Recreation ...
State: CA Length: 3.4 miles Surface: Asphalt
The Manteca Tidewater Bikeway is a multiuse trail running north to south through the city of Manteca, California. The flat, asphalt corridor is up to 100 feet wide in places and is popular with bikers, inline skaters and walkers. There is also ...
State: CA Length: 8.5 miles Surface: Asphalt
Marsh Creek Trail follows the sinuous course of Marsh Creek through the outskirts of suburbia and among the rich farmland of Contra Costa County. The 8.5-mile paved extends between Concord Road in Brentwood and Big Break Lake, where the trail ...
State: CA Length: 1.75 miles Surface: Asphalt
The Modesto Virginia Corridor represents the transformation of the Tidewater Southern rail corridor into a premier linear park, trail and recreational gathering place. The currently open segment of the Modesto Virginia Corridor (1.75 miles) ...
State: CA Length: 3.95 miles Surface:
From the City of Modesto Web site: Phase III of the Virginia Corridor Trailway project is currently under construction. This phase of the trail begins at College Avenue, north to Roseburg; and from Orangeburg to Granger Avenue. This will make ...
State: CA Length: 300 miles Surface:
From www.mc2ct.org: The Mokelumne Coast to Crest Trail (MCCT) will be a scenic, 300-mile non-motorized, multi-use trail extending from the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco Bay to the crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Users, including hikers, ...
State: CA Length: 4 miles Surface: Asphalt
With the completion of a new bike/pedestrian bridge over Interstate 80, this bike trail provides a long-awaited connection from North Natomas to the American River Bike Trail, South Natomas, and downtown. It allows commuters and recreational ...
This paved trail utilizes a utility corridor to connects the Northgate neighborhood with parks and the American River Bike Trail. A Master Plan for the full development of the Ninos Parkway into gardens and parks in complete and construction ...
State: CA Length: 8.4 miles Surface: Asphalt, Concrete
Neighborhood trails in North Natomas offer convenient access to parks, schools, and shopping centers through residential greenways. Most are well connected and travel through greenways and along flood channels and basins for the most natural ...
State: CA Length: 2.2 miles Surface: Asphalt
The Oak Parkway Trail covers just over 2 miles across Folsom, a suburb of Sacramento, providing an important connection between the eastern and western halves of the city. The tree-dotted pathway traverses gently rolling hills along a wide green ...
State: CA Length: 8.4 miles Surface: Asphalt
This commuter route between Sacramento and Davis parallels the Union Pacific and Capitol Corridor rail line on the adjacent old US 40 right of way. From Davis, the separated path runs between the rail line and I80 to Road 105. From Road 105 ...
State: CA Length: 1.5 miles Surface: Asphalt
This path dissects Weston Ranch diagonally in between French Camp Road and the San Joaquin River. It ends on the opposite side of Van Buskirk Municipal Park along the banks of the river. Due to its location in a residential neighborhood, there ...
State: CA Length: 9.8 miles Surface: Asphalt
Follow the Sacramento Northern Bike Trail for a tour of Sacramento and its surrounding communities, weaving through historic neighborhoods and parks and finishing in a scenic rural area. The bikeway also connects with a number of other local ...
Hugging the eastern bank of the Sacramento River, this trail travels through Old Sacramento and along the Sacramento Southern excursion rail line to connect neighborhoods to the south. The trail makes useful links to the American River Bike ...
State: CA Length: 1.5 miles Surface:
This project will connect the three isolated segments of trail that are already complete in the area to form a continuous trail along the Bay alongside the active UP and Amtrak rail lines. The project to connect the Pinole Shores to Bayfront ...
State: CA Length: 2.7 miles Surface: Asphalt
This trail along the San Joaquin River and French Camp levees gives access to the riparian areas south of Stockton from the Weston Ranch neighborhoods. It connects to the PG&E Greenbelt for a potential loop. There is limited access to the trail ...
State: CA Length: 2 miles Surface: Concrete
The Sunrise Bikeway is a short but important commuter route in the suburbs of northeast Sacramento, linking neighborhoods with businesses and providing an off-road route that parallels busy Sunrise Boulevard. A bridge allows access across the ...
State: CA, NV Length: 116 miles Surface:
The Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway is a vision of following the Truckee River by foot or by bicycle from its source at forested Lake Tahoe to its desert terminus, Pyramid Lake. The route will descend over 2000 feet in 116 miles, using a combination of ...
State: CA Length: 3 miles Surface:
The Three Creeks Trail will provide a critical link between the Los Gatos Creek Trail, Guadalupe River Trail, and Coyote Creek Trail through urban San Jose. The City is currently purchasing the western portion of the corridor which will connect ...
State: CA Length: 2 miles Surface: Asphalt
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State: CA Length: 1.7 miles Surface: Asphalt
This trail runs adjacent to the American River and connects Jibboom Street and Highway 160. It was awarded the 2007 Project of the Year Award in the Parks & Trails Category by The Sacramento Chapter of the American Public Works Association. ...
State: CA Length: 5.4 miles Surface: Asphalt
This is a bike path often used by the residents of Davis. It begins at the beautiful UC Davis Arboretum and runs alongside Putah Creek for most of its length. It traverses through the Putah Creek Bicycle Undercrossing in order to pass under ...
State: CA Length: 5.5 miles Surface: Crushed Stone, Dirt
Tucked away in the sparsely populated Tuolumne County, this portion of the Stanislaus National Forest's Westside Rails is a hidden treasure, combining spectacular scenery and a route that represents an amazing feat of railway construction. The ...
State: CA Length: 55 miles Surface: Dirt, Gravel
The Western States Pioneer Trail runs for 55 miles between East Folsom Lake and Auburn at Squaw Pass. The trail, open to hikers and horseback riders only, follows the winding course of the American River along the old railroad grade built by ...