My First Ride on the Elysian Valley Section of the L.A. River Bike Path

A few happy days a year I have to take my car into the shop. On these days, I strap my bike onto my car rack and take the car into my old dealership in Glendale and get to ride the 9 miles from the shop to work.  Along the way I retrace my old bike commute route from Glassell Park to downtown L.A.  While most of that route is fortunate enough to have actual bike lanes or bike routes, there is one stretch of San Fernando between Glendale Blvd and Fletcher that is outright hostile to bike riders. I recently found out from my friends at Bikeside LA that the Elysian Valley section of the L.A. River bike path opened back in December of 2010, and looking at a map I realized that I could now completely circumvent that nasty bit of road by taking the L.A. River bike path from Glendale Blvd all the way down to the Riveside Drive bridge where I’d pick up my old commute route.  See the map below:

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