This is a list of bike paths in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
Paths
98th Street bicycle path – runs from Avalon Boulevard to Clovis Avenue along 98th Street in the
South Los Angeles area. Bike Path ID: 1. Mileage: 0.52.[1]
Balboa Boulevard East bicycle path – runs along
Balboa Boulevard, from Victory Boulevard to Burbank Boulevard, in
Encino, Los Angeles. Bike Path ID: 1818. Mileage: 1.[1]
Burbank Boulevard bicycle path – runs in the
Sepulveda Basin park, from Balboa Boulevard to 727' west of I-405, near the Encino Golf Course. Bike Path ID: 12. Mileage: 2.37.[1]
Burbank Channel bicycle path – located in
Burbank with two segments: Cohasset Street to Tulare Avenue (0.3 mi), and Buena Vista St. to Jackson Street (0.6 mi).[2]
Cabrillo Beach bicycle path – runs in
San Pedro, from Oliver Vickery Circle Way to the end of the jetty at
Cabrillo Beach Park. Bike Path ID: 13. Mileage: 0.38.[1]
Canterbury Avenue bicycle path – runs from Chase Street to Reedly Street along Canterbury Avenue in the San Fernando Valley. Bike Path ID: 14. Mileage: 0.52.[1]
Chandler Boulevard bicycle path – on Chandler Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley. The LADOT-maintained portion runs from Vineland Avenue to Clybourn Avenue in North Hollywood (Bike path ID: 18. Mileage: 0.8).[1] The bike path, which changes names to Chandler Bikeway, continues 1.91 miles in Burbank from Clybourn Avenue to Mariposa Street.[3]
Compton Creek bicycle path – runs along
Compton Creek in
Compton and Rancho Dominguez for almost six miles. It extends from
El Segundo Boulevard east of N. Parmelee Avenue(near Centennial High School) to
Del Amo Boulevard near the Blue Line Del Amo station.[4]
Devonshire Street bicycle path – Runs from Woodman Avenue to Arleta Avenue. Bike Path ID: 21. Mileage: 0.5.[1]
Dominguez Channel bicycle path/Laguna Dominguez bicycle trail – runs along the
Dominguez Channel, and is partially maintained by the city of Los Angeles and partially maintained by the county of Los Angeles. The city-maintained portion runs from .03 miles west of Vermont Avenue to West 190th Street along Dominguez Channel in
Gardena. Bike Path ID: 23. Mileage: 0.79.[1] The county-maintained portion continues for 2.7 miles along the Dominguez Channel.[6]
Duarte bicycle path – located in
Duarte, this 1.6-mile-long (2.6 km) trail was created by the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.[7]
La Cañada Verde Creek Bicycle Path – a short bike path in
Whittier, running 0.1 miles along the south side of La Cañada Verde Creek from Mulberry Street to Broadway.[9]
Los Angeles River Bicycle Path – runs along parts of the
Los Angeles River, in separate sections currently. One runs . Another runs in the
Glendale Narrows from Riverside Drive at Zoo Drive in Griffith Park to
Elysian Valley in Los Angeles. (Bike Path ID: 1905, Mileage: 4.5).[1] The path has recently been extended south to Elysian Valley, just north of downtown Los Angeles, for a full length of 7.4 miles.[10] NBC Universal has agreed to pay $13.5 million in order to have an additional 6.4 miles of the L.A. River bicycle path built, from its current northern Glendale Narrows terminus in Burbank to Whitsett Avenue in Studio City.[11]
Los Angeles River Bikeway – also known as the Los Angeles River bicycle path or by its acronym LARIO. It runs along the lower the
Los Angeles River from
Vernon downstream to the Downtown Marina
Long Beach and its mouth. It is 29.1 miles long and runs along the east side of the Los Angeles River.[8]
Lake Los Angeles bike path – located at
Lake Los Angeles in the
Mojave Desert, it runs along 170th St. East. for 2.7 miles between Avenue M-8 and Avenue P. A spur runs 0.5 miles along Avenue O from 170th St. East to 165th St. East.[12]
Mark Bixby Memorial Bicycle-Pedestrian Path on
Long Beach International Gateway Bridge, 1.5 mi (2.4 km)[14] COMING SOON “connector bridge from Ocean Boulevard to the bridge is currently under construction”
Marvin Braude Bike Trail – a 22-mile-long (35 km) bike trail along the Pacific Ocean shoreline of western Los Angeles County, from Pacific Palisades south to Torrance. Sections of the bike trail are managed by a wide variety of municipal authorities and have several different names.[15] Sections, listed north to south and managed by a variety of municipal authorities, include:
Will Rogers State Beach bicycle path – northernmost section, within
Will Rogers State Beach in Pacific Palisades from Temescal Canyon Road southeast to Santa Monica city limits. Bike Path ID: 65. Mileage: 1.37.[1]
Santa Monica bicycle path – along the beach in Santa Monica, and connecting Will Rogers State Beach bicycle path to the Venice Beach bicycle path.
Venice Beach bicycle path – along
Venice Beach, from the Santa Monica bicycle path to Washington Boulevard. Bike Path ID: 61. Mileage: 1.51.[1]
Palos Verdes Drive bicycle path – runs on Palos Verdes Drive, from South
Western Avenue to Gaffey Street in
San Pedro. Bike Path ID: 50. Mileage: 0.8.[1]
Plummer Street bicycle path – runs on Plummer Street in Chatsworth, from Shoup Avenue to Hunt Club Lane. Bike Path ID: 52. Mileage: 0.41.
Sale Avenue bicycle path – runs on Sale Avenue in
Woodland Hills, from Oxnard Street to Calvert Street, in the western San Fernando Valley. Bike Path ID: 53. Mileage: 0.14.[1]
San Francisquito Trail – a 4.36-mile trail in
Santa Clarita between Newhall Ranch Road and Brook Road at the Decoro Drive Bridge.[21] This trail connects to the
Santa Clara River Trail.
San Fernando Road bicycle path – runs along the Metrolink
Antelope Valley Line route and
San Fernando Road. Phase 1 runs from Roxford Street to Hubbard Street in the northeastern San Fernando Valley. Bike Path ID: 55. Mileage: 1.91.[1] There is a bike path connecting Hubbard Street to Wolfskill Street. Phase 2 opened in 2014 from Wolfskill Street to Branford Street. Mileage: 2.75.[22] When completed, the bicycle path will run to Cohasset Drive in Burbank to connect with the
Burbank Airport–South station.[23]
San Jose Creek bike path – along San Jose Creek in the
City of Industry, for 2.1 miles from 7th Avenue to Workman Mill Road.[9]Whittier plans to extend this path by 15.6 miles.[24]
Santa Anita Wash Bicycle Path – along the
Santa Anita Wash for 1 mile, from Live Oak Avenue to the east side of the spillway of Peck Road Water Conservation. It connects to the
Rio Hondo bicycle path.[9]
Santa Clara River Trail – also known as the Chuck Pontius Commuter Rail Trail. Located along the upper
Santa Clara River in
Santa Clarita, running 7.29 miles from Soledad Canyon Road & Deep Creek Drive to Valencia Boulevard Bridge south of Auto Center Court.[25] This trail connects to the San Francisquito Trail.
South Fork Trail – in
Santa Clarita, California, connects to both the
Santa Clara River Trail and the San Francisquito Trail. It is 8.32 miles long and runs from the intersection of Lyons Avenue and Ave Entranta to west of McBean Parkway and Magic Mountain Parkway.[27]
Thompson Creek trail – runs along Thompson Creek in
Claremont for 2.8 miles. Access points include Base Line Road, Higginbotham Park, North Indian Hill Boulevard, and Pomello Drive. The park has a parking lot located on North Indian Hill Boulevard across from La Puerta Sports Park.[28]
Tujunga Wash bicycle path – runs in
North Hollywood from Oxnard Street to Burbank Boulevard in the eastern San Fernando Valley. Bike Path ID: 56. Mileage: 0.52.
Watts Towers Crescent Greenway – a paved 0.2-mile-long (0.32 km) trail in
Watts near the
Watts Towers. It is on Willowbrook just north of 108th Avenue.[29]
Whittier Greenway Trail – parallel to Whittier Boulevard in
Whittier, between Mills Avenue and Pioneer Boulevard near I-605. It is currently 4.7 miles long, but plans exist to extend it east to the border of Orange County.[30]
Woodley Avenue bicycle path – on Woodley Avenue in
Sepulveda Basin park, from Burbank Boulevard to Victory Boulevard. Bike Path ID: 66. Mileage: 1.28.[1]
Bike trails by watershed
Initial “river trails” organization framework created by Loren MacArthur in 1985.[31]
NOTE: Legg Lake Loop at
Whittier Narrows Recreation Area is a bridge point linking the Los Angeles River and the San Gabriel River watersheds.
I. LOS ANGELES RIVER
“The river goes east-west through the Valley, then turns north-south in downtown L.A., flowing into the Pacific in Long Beach. There are bikeways along only about half of the length of the river currently [2022].”[32]
IV. Separate watersheds[33]
(Bike trails in Los Angeles County adjacent to watercourses that are not connected to the San Gabriel or Los Angeles Rivers; listed roughly north to south.)
Up-to-date bicycle tourbooks for Los Angeles County have been written by the following authors:
Patrick Brady
Don and Sharron Brundige
Wayne D. Cottrell
Legalities
Bike paths in
Los Angeles County are maintained by various government organizations.
California Bike Paths are explicitly defined in Chapter 1000 of the Highway Design Manual (HDM) published by the California Department of Transportation (
Caltrans).
Bike paths are uncovered by any warranties as to fitness for safe cycling. This is in direct contrast to ordinary city streets. There are two pieces of case law which establish this clearly, one of them being Prokop v. City of Los Angeles.[34]
It is legal in the City of Los Angeles to ride on sidewalks as long as riders do not show "wanton disregard" for the safety of other sidewalk users.[35] This does not apply to all areas of Los Angeles County. In California, when mounted and riding on the road, cyclists are required to "behave like vehicles" when it comes to obeying signals, signage, and lane restrictions.[36]
^"Whittier Greenway Trail". TrailLink. Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.
Archived from the original on 14 September 2022. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
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MacArthur, Loren (1985). L.A. Bike Rides: A Guide to 37 Specially Selected Bike Routes in Los Angeles County. San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books.
ISBN0-87701-316-0.