Recommend me some good rides around Glendale/Burbank
07-17-14, 11:02 PM
#26
Farmer tan
Note that the descent on Camino San Rafael is steep and a straight shot at potentially high speed. There's wildlife at the top and stop signs / driveways toward the bottom. I don't like coming down that way.
07-21-14, 11:42 PM
#27
Senior Member
I live in Burbank and do lots of local loop rides, often in the evenings. A few favorite areas and stretches...
Burbank to Lake Hollywood, then to Hollywood via the closed to cars daytime-only reservoir-route to Weidlake Dr. and Holly Dr. Or at night via Mulholland Hwy. and Ledgewood to Beachwood or Gower St.
Glendale Narrows Riverwalk to Fairmont Ave., then through S.F. Rd. area and various side streets towards Confluence Park.
Lankershim to Cahuenga West to Multiview, up to Mulholland, then down Nichols Canyon into Hollywood.
York St. and (the much shorter) Meridian St. are nice for getting across towards Eagle Rock and Highland Park.
Sunset from Chinatown (actually it's Chavez there) all the way up to Silverlake or Los Feliz is a really nice ride, at the junction I usually take Hollywood Blvd. west.
In the afternoons and early evenings the wind almost always blows from downtown towards the S.F. Valley. That's nearly guaranteed in summer months, though less sure in the winter. Usually, if including a river-adjacent route (LART, Crystal Springs, S.F. Road), I save that for the return trip to have the wind at my back.
Burbank to Lake Hollywood, then to Hollywood via the closed to cars daytime-only reservoir-route to Weidlake Dr. and Holly Dr. Or at night via Mulholland Hwy. and Ledgewood to Beachwood or Gower St.
Glendale Narrows Riverwalk to Fairmont Ave., then through S.F. Rd. area and various side streets towards Confluence Park.
Lankershim to Cahuenga West to Multiview, up to Mulholland, then down Nichols Canyon into Hollywood.
York St. and (the much shorter) Meridian St. are nice for getting across towards Eagle Rock and Highland Park.
Sunset from Chinatown (actually it's Chavez there) all the way up to Silverlake or Los Feliz is a really nice ride, at the junction I usually take Hollywood Blvd. west.
In the afternoons and early evenings the wind almost always blows from downtown towards the S.F. Valley. That's nearly guaranteed in summer months, though less sure in the winter. Usually, if including a river-adjacent route (LART, Crystal Springs, S.F. Road), I save that for the return trip to have the wind at my back.
Last edited by 3949dxer; 07-21-14 at 11:45 PM.
