Best Cities and States for Running Trails/Path Systems? (2015, houses)

[knrstz]

Northwest Arkansas has great trails connecting from Fayetteville to Bentonville.

[masssachoicetts]

For Large Cities: Boston definetly has a lot with the Emeralnd necklace!
For Medium Size Citiies; Raleigh

[kyle19125]

There's over 4,500 miles of trails in Washington DC spread out over 100 varying options.

https://www.traillink.com/city/washington-dc-trails/

[riffle]

Omaha has an amazing trail system along the creeks and around the reservoirs in the west suburbs. Mostly hard surface, not trail running though.

[TCHP]

Colorado Springs is over 11% parkland within the city offering over 5000 acres of parks and 500 acres of trail, amounting to nearly 400 miles within the city alone. Since it adjoins other municipalities, national forest, and the omnipresent Pikes Peak, there are additional thousands of miles of trails in the region. Sometimes you even encounter Olympic athletes doing some freelance training on these trails.

https://coloradosprings.gov/parks/pa...ls-open-spaces
https://medium.com/great-runs/great-...co-6c02e893f53
https://www.trailrunproject.com/dire...lorado-springs
https://parks.coloradosprings.gov/si..._trail_map.pdf

[frimpter928]

I think Chicago does a solid job with the Lakefront trail, Boulevard system and 606. Now the river is all getting connected too. Not sure it's the best but Chicago does well in this category.

[mjtinmemphis]

Originally Posted by frimpter928

I think Chicago does a solid job with the Lakefront trail, Boulevard system and 606. Now the river is all getting connected too. Not sure it's the best but Chicago does well in this category.

Chicago is in the top 5 biking cities.

[frimpter928]

Originally Posted by mjtinmemphis

Chicago is in the top 5 biking cities.

Biking for sure. Lots of bike lanes everywhere. And they keep adding more.

[Pavlov's Dog]

Surprised no one has mentioned them yet. Maybe too obvious but the Oregon trio of Eugene, Portland and Bend have both great trails and great running scenes. I would imagine no city in the World has more people working in running shoe design, marketing and testing than the Portland area thanks to the presense of Nike (global HQ), Adidas (N.Am HQ), Under Armour (footware division) and so on.

https://www.wweek.com/arts/2016/01/2...shoe-industry/

[WestsideMac]

Thanks everyone who listed. Appreciate the responses.

Definitely some places I knew had great running trail systems and just slipped my mind (like Oregon), but some others that I didn't know about or consider like Raleigh, Boston, Omaha, or others.