The way points of this bicycle route:
Ride on pedestrian paths to get around tennis courts.
Use path at Atherwood Ave to enter/exit school campus to/from Selby Lane
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.
Lovely bridge between residential Menlo Park (San Mateo Drive) and Stanford (Clark Way), crossing San Francisquito Creek.
The whole campus is one big bike-friendly shortcut...
Bike/Ped connector between the end of Frenchman's Road (a cul-de-sac) and Junipero Serra Blvd
Residential path between Stanford Ave and Sonoma Terrace
Residential path between Santa Fe Ave and Stanford Ave
Residential path between Stanford Ave and Esplanada Way
Residential path between San Francisco Ct and Bowdoin Street
Wonderful divided bike path between Hanover Street and Arastradero Rd, allowing commuters to avoid steep hill going up Hanover. A pretty route.
There are two paths that run between the Gunn High School athletic fields and Arastradero Rd.
Lovely divided bike path between Arastradero Rd (near the cemetery entrance) and Los Altos Ave
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
This underground pathway allows access to the San Antonio Caltrain Northbound train platform and Central Expressway.
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.
If only the whole Caltrain route had a path like this along side the tracks! It would make biking or walking here irresistable.
Bike path crosses over Embarcadero Rd
Tunnel from bike path to Homer Ave/Alma St intersection
Tunnel Under Train Tracks at University Ave
Be careful crossing this intersection, it can get complicated.
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.
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.
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.
Cars cannot get through here, but there is an opening for bikes.
Fair Oaks Ln, like most Atherton throughway roads, is narrow and relatively unsafe for bikes.
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.
Pretty Lloyden neighborhood with wide streets makes biking here very pleasant. But you still need to return to El Camino to keep going.
Cars cannot get through but bikes can.
One way for cars but bikes can make it throgh.
Somewhat unappealing neighborhood.
Shortcut through Target Store parking lot
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
It's actually a straight shot between Elm and Franklin streets here.
Pennsylvania Ave here is a quiet frontage-type single lane road useful for avoiding busy Middlefield Rd. Short cut through library parking lot
There's a helpful traffic light here at the Whipple/Arguello intersection.
Much safer to use this alley than to use Howard or Laurel Sts.
