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Palo Alto Cycling - Ravenswood and Cooley Landing Park

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  Being to Byxbee Park and Baylands Nature Preserve in Mountain View, now push northward further. Revenswood Open Space Preserve is very close to Highway 84, the Dumbarton Bridge. It would be nice to see the bridge from there! Still park at the Casey Forebay Street Parking at the end of San Antonio Rd same as last time. But don't take the Adobe Creek loop Trail. Take bike lane detour. This runs in parallel with Highway 101 (as you can see on the map above). Connect to Renzel Trail and all the way north. From here you can go north from the left side of the Palo Alto Airport or from the right side. Cooley Landing Park is a beautiful place. Good scenery and plenty of parking space. Today is cloudy and a bit rainy. Cooley Landing Park on the far right Continue north is Revenswood Open Space Preserve. Very close to the bridge now. At the end of the trail, there is an observatory platform. That's the end of the trail. Oneway is about 9km. Mostly flat. Very easy ride. Bikers and runn...

Mountain View Cycling - Byxbee Park and Baylands Nature Preserve

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  Finally the fear of gravel is overcome. We would try going north on the Shoreline Park that we turn back twice. This time, we parked in the Casey Forebay Street Parking ( maps ). This is the end of northbound San Antonio Rd. From here, as you can see on the map, we will reach the Bowl first, then visit the Baylands Nature Preserve, back onto the service road off Highway 101, and return to our car. Total around 8miles. There are numerous restrooms along the path. Although there is no shade at all, early morning's breeze is still quite comfortable. It is mostly flat. You can ride up to the small hill if you want. This is right on the edge of the bay looking toward the east. We exit out of the Byxbee Park, pass Palo Alto Airport, Palo Alto Duck Pond, and reach Baylands Nature Preseve. The pedestrians can stay on the trail, cyclists mostly take the paved road. marshland If you put the image on Google lens app, it can quickly identify this the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve! Bayla...