Most Route 66ers know about the historic Arroyo Seco Parkway in the Los Angeles area, which served as an alignment of Route 66 for many years.
However, did you know the Arroyo Seco has a walking trail? The Los Angeles Times has the details:
This is a lovely country-in-the-city walk, flat and undemanding, offering rare views of the untamed river — less than five minutes from Old Town Pasadena.
The 22-mile-long Arroyo Seco, a river-bed canyon that begins in the San Gabriel Mountains and runs into the Los Angeles River, was a lot of things before it became home to the world’s first freeway and a concrete ditch with water in it.
Today it’s a great hiking opportunity.
The walkway also gives you the opportunity to walk under the historic Colorado Street Bridge, an Art Deco masterpiece that once carried U.S. 66.
This site contains a good map of the trail. And here’s a video that shows you many of the sights along the walk:
Good find, Ron. Yes, there are a lot of trails throughout the San Gabriel Mountains / Angeles National Forest. But this one is a good way to experience the Lower Arroyo Seco from a completely different perspective than the National Scenic Byway Arroyo Seco Parkway allows. Anyone that has time to spend in the Los Angeles area would be wise to check out as much of 66 and the surrounding areas as possible on foot!