Fairfax Bike Trail

The Fairfax Trail is 1.5 miles long and parallels the north side of Murray Ave, between Settle Street and Red Bank Road. The Murray Road portion overlaps with the Murray Road Hike/ Bike Trail. There are plans to link the Fairfax Trail to another trail planned to run between Cincinnati and Cleveland.

In 2021 the trail was extended along the former trolley line (now utility corridor) within the median of Murray Avenue, bringing the trail out east to Plainville Road. A separate extension of the Wasson Way trail also brought that trail just a short distance from the southern endpoint of the Murray Path, enhancing the area's network of walking and cycling routes. The Fairfax Trail is part of the coast to coast American Discovery Trail.

Parking and Trail Access

Parking for the trail is available at the shopping center at the southeast corner of Red Bank Road and Murray Avenue.

Best Leave This Trail to the Local Commuters and Shoppers

June 2019 orangedoug

Another Ohio TrailLink.com-listed trail checked off my list. This time a 3.2 mile round trip on the Fairfax Bike Trail between Mariemont and Madisonville in the Cincinnati area of Ohio. This is not much of a trail right now and appears to me as being something a commercial/retail developer threw in in order to sweeten a deal with the city in order to develop a particular piece of land. Apparently there are plans to connect the Fairfax Trail to another trail planned to run between Cincinnati and Cleveland. Could that other trail be the Little Miami Scenic Trail, which is part of the Ohio to Erie Trail route? There are several other biking trails in the area: the Little Miami Scenic Trail, the Armleder Park Trail, The Ohio River Trail, the Lunken Airport Trail, and Wasson Way. This trail could be a part of a much wider developing trail network, but at present I see no signs of this trail being expanded any time soon nor any reason for you to go out of your way to seek this trail out. Definitely a trail for just the local residents.