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This is a cue sheet for the Shortcuts Bicycle Map. You can print it out for later use.

Cumulative Distance Where Notes Direction Elevation
3.86km 3.86km Red Morton Park Ride on pedestrian paths to get around tennis courts. SE 132° 12m
6.5km 2.64km Selby Lane School Use path at Atherwood Ave to enter/exit school campus to/from Selby Lane ESE 99° 0m
9.92km 3.42km Sacred Heart School When the Elena Ave gate is open you can ride through the school parking lot. Or, you can go through the back of the campus via Park Ln when that entrance is open. NW 312° 29m
12.72km 2.8km San Francisquito Creek Bridge Lovely bridge between residential Menlo Park (San Mateo Drive) and Stanford (Clark Way), crossing San Francisquito Creek. S 158° 25m
15.49km 2.77km Stanford University The whole campus is one big bike-friendly shortcut... SSE 157° 37m
16.83km 1.34km Frenchman's Road Bike/Ped connector between the end of Frenchman's Road (a cul-de-sac) and Junipero Serra Blvd S 164° 0m
18.13km 1.3km Sonoma Terrace Residential path between Stanford Ave and Sonoma Terrace NW 305° 35m
18.59km 0.45km Santa Fe Ave Residential path between Santa Fe Ave and Stanford Ave ESE 103° 26m
18.82km 0.23km Esplanada Way Residential path between Stanford Ave and Esplanada Way NNW 318° 0m
19.53km 0.72km San Francisco Ct Residential path between San Francisco Ct and Bowdoin Street E 79° 0m
21.79km 2.25km Path behind Veterans Admin Hospital Wonderful divided bike path between Hanover Street and Arastradero Rd, allowing commuters to avoid steep hill going up Hanover. A pretty route. SSE 155° 21m
22.74km 0.96km Paths around Gunn High School There are two paths that run between the Gunn High School athletic fields and Arastradero Rd. S 160° 25m
25.16km 2.42km Path beside Alta Vista Cemetery Lovely divided bike path between Arastradero Rd (near the cemetery entrance) and Los Altos Ave E 83° 0m
26.99km 1.83km Bruce Bauer Lumber The lumber company site extends between Del Medio Ave and San Antonio Circle, allowing you to avoid San Antonio Ave traffic and get easy access to the San Antonio CalTrain station SE 122° 11m
27.49km 0.5km San Antonio Caltrain Station Underground Path This underground pathway allows access to the San Antonio Caltrain Northbound train platform and Central Expressway. NNW 353° 0m
32.69km 5.19km Shortcut: Mariposa Ave There is at least one pedestrian path between Mariposa Ave and Castilleja Ave along this block. It's helpful to cross Churchill nearer to Castilleja Ave to avoid the congestion of cars at the Alma intersection. WSW 234° 0m
32.98km 0.3km Shortcut: Bike Path Along Train Tracks If only the whole Caltrain route had a path like this along side the tracks! It would make biking or walking here irresistable. NW 309° 0m
33.49km 0.5km Embarcadero Rd Overpass Bike path crosses over Embarcadero Rd NW 307° 0m
33.95km 0.47km Homer Ave Tunnel Tunnel from bike path to Homer Ave/Alma St intersection NE 36° 17m
34.83km 0.87km Palo Alto Caltrain Station Tunnel Under Train Tracks at University Ave ENE 47° 0m
35.5km 0.67km Bike Bridge at the Palo Alto Tree NW 303° 21m
36.71km 1.21km Be careful crossing this intersection, it can get complicated. NW 308° 21m
38.1km 1.38km Shortcut: Victoria Dr Gate Gate (usually unlocked) between Menlo College campus parking lot and Victoria Dr. This is handy to avoid riding on El Camino for the stretch from Encinal Ave to the Valparaiso intersection which is a busy left turn lane with no shoulder. NE 29° 23m
38.77km 0.68km Locked Gate (nevermind) This would be a wonderful shortcut between residential Felton neighborhood and Holbrook-Palmer park for avoiding El Camino but it is padlocked with a sign saying it's only for use by neighborhood residents. NW 313° 16m
38.94km 0.17km Hollbrook-Palmer Park This park doesn't actually work very well as a pass through route since the gate to the Felton neighborhood is padlocked and the only way into/out of the park is halfway down Watkins Ave, but if you can make it work somehow, it would be a helpful alternative to El Camino. NE 30° 17m
39.57km 0.62km Shortcut: McCormick Ln Cars cannot get through here, but there is an opening for bikes. NW 312° 17m
39.94km 0.38km Fair Oaks Ln, like most Atherton throughway roads, is narrow and relatively unsafe for bikes. SW 211° 0m
40.16km 0.22km This is a path between Lloyden Dr and Redwood Way here. It is not entirely paved, but very pleasant for way for Redwood Way residents to walk to the Atherton Train station and library. NW 298° 19m
40.49km 0.33km Pretty Lloyden neighborhood with wide streets makes biking here very pleasant. But you still need to return to El Camino to keep going. SW 210° 16m
41.58km 1.09km Bikeway Cars cannot get through but bikes can. NW 301° 10m
42.03km 0.45km One way for cars but bikes can make it throgh. NW 304° 9m
42.5km 0.47km Somewhat unappealing neighborhood. NW 309° 0m
42.99km 0.49km Shortcut through Target Store parking lot NNW 322° 7m
43.57km 0.58km Ride on street passing under 84 (Woodside Rd). Trying to get across this road any other way is more problematic. Semi-industrial, somewhat unappealing neighborhood W 264° 5m
44.26km 0.69km Lathrop St extension It's actually a straight shot between Elm and Franklin streets here. E 90° 0m
44.73km 0.47km Redwood City Library Pennsylvania Ave here is a quiet frontage-type single lane road useful for avoiding busy Middlefield Rd. Short cut through library parking lot NNE 7° 2m
46.03km 1.3km There's a helpful traffic light here at the Whipple/Arguello intersection. NNW 315° 2m
47.59km 1.56km Alley Much safer to use this alley than to use Howard or Laurel Sts. SSE 142° 0m
48.13km 0.53km WSW 227° 7m