The way points of this bicycle route:
Start at Fremont & Wright -- easy to get to this spot from Mtn View and Los Altos as well.
Left on Cascade
Continue on Cascade across Mary. Light sensor works well. Short to medium length light.
Right on Hollenbeck. Hollenbeck a bit busier but this way you don't have to wait for a light.
Left on Cheyenne.
Right on Revelstoke.
Continue to left on Fort Laramie
Right on Richelieu
Left on Alberta
Sometimes a long light crossing Sunnyvale Saratoga. Continue on straight onto Harwick on other side.
Right on Bittern
Left onto Inverness
A long to medium light crossing Wolfe.
Right on Lochinvar
Often a long light crossing Lawrence
Right onto Pomeroy
Usually a short light crossing Homestead.
Left on Forbes Ave
School traffic & pedestrians can slow you a bit around 8am when school is in session.
Light usually quick to turn crossing Kiely.
Often a very, very long light crossing San Tomas.
Right on Los Padres
Usually a quick light crossing Saratoga
Short light
Left on Dolores Ave
Quick right left jog onto Kenwood across Winchester. Crossing Winchester sometimes tricky but center left turn lane helps.
Right onto Redwood
Left onto Woodland
Right onto Monroe
Left onto Hedding, light usually fairly quick.
Underpass repaved in 2008 making it smoother but often best to ride sidewalk going under 880 due to high speed autos.
After underpass, return to street and take right on Bellerose
Left on Emory
Often tricky crossing Bascom to continue on Emory -- no center turn lane and often steady streams of traffic both ways.
Right on Garden. Note the wonderful San Jose Rose Garden!! Many interesting nice houses in this area.
Left on Naglee
Right on Hadley
Left on Brooklyn
Right on Dana
Left on Hester
Right on Park
Quick left on Shasta. Note the interesting houses on Shasta.
Right on Tillman. More interesting houses on Tillman as well as a number of small rotaries (traffic circles).
Left onto Yosemite (stay right on right of the little traffic circle!)
Sharp left onto Race St.
Left onto San Fernando (if you continue down Race another few blocks you'll find Slough's Bike Shoppe on your left just before San Carlos -- very small shop yet well stocked)
Right on Cleaves Ave. Cleaves is bumpy as of 2008 but short.
Left on Park
Quick light crossing Sunol
Underpass under railroad tracks, very wide relatively smooth shoulder.
Medium to short light crossing Montgomery to continue on Park. This section of Park is the "ugliest" part of the ride but at least it is short.
Fairly short light crossing Delmas unless you get caught by a light rail train at the wrong time.
Easiest way to get to Adobe HQ is to get in left turn lane under Guadalupe Pkwy, take a left, and ride up onto the sidewalk over Guadalupe River -- or you can do a U turn with the cars at Park & Almaden.
Easiest to ride up onto left sidewalk from here to Adobe parking garage.
Adobe Headquarters! Take a left from sidewalk into the Adobe parking garage at 345 Park Ave. There is a bike cage for employees and monitored/guarded bike racks for visitors.
Welcome to Bikely, take a step by step tour of this path:
Press Start Tour - then use the navigation buttons below to move along the path.
This is the prettiest, least traffic, most trees & shade route between Southern Sunnyvale and Adobe headquarters in downtown San Jose. Bulk of route credit goes to Roberto Perelman.
Tagged with: Commute, Onroad, Smooth, Basic, Low traffic, Safe, Urban, Scenic
