Trail users and multi-use trails.

Major issues for trail user communities.

Walk

Dish access restricted to paved roads.

Stanford's recent closure of most of the Dish area trails restricts walkers and hikers to paved roads. The outdoor experience is much reduced. (Details to follow.)

Run

Cardiac Hill closure

"Cardiac Hill" trail, 1998.

Trail destroyed in late August 2000 as part of Stanford's "conservation plan."

Intersection of Stanford Avenue and Junipero Serra at the upper right.

The only good running hill near Stanford is now closed to runners. (Details to follow.)

Bike

Sand Hill Project bike path gap.

Bicyclists still have to struggle through a heavily travelled two-lane bridge on Sand Hill. The City of Menlo Park has decided not to add more vehicle lanes to Sand Hill Road, and this has been taken by Stanford as a way to evade the requirements in the Environmental Impact Statement for additional bike and trail access through that bottleneck. Path and trail access doesn't have to be tied to road widening, and some other path alignments are possible. (Details to follow)

Horse

Stanford Equestrian Center now landlocked.

Horses from stables on the campus have used the Dish area for a century. With the Dish area now closed to horses, the Equestrian Center not only loses access to the Dish, but all trail connections. (Details to follow.)

This site is operated by a group of Stanford-area people, many of whom are Stanford alumni.
It is not an official site of Stanford University.
Last update November 16, 2001.