The trail runs right alongside River Ave. You can easily jump off the trail and jog up to the 31SB.
2012-03-26 00:01:33
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16th to 31st street bridge loop - running
Just a small question - I'm meeting someone in the strip tomorrow and we are going to do about 3 miles of jogging. I was thinking we could go across the 16th street bridge, then run east along the river to the 31st street bridge, then cross back over and hit Penn and return.
I notice that there is a riverfront trail on the north side of the river. Does the trail go up to the bridge? I was looking in google maps street view and I do see a sidewalk on the bridge, but I can't see where the trail goes to the bridge. It looks like the trail goes underneath...
Is anyone familiar with this?
Here's a link to the intersection I'm talking about:
2012-03-25 23:56:54
Last time I tried to use trail -- there were some kind of construction around bike and canoe rental place approaching from Duquesne Bridge. To get to a 31st bridge from the trail you need to jump to
Rever Street 200-300 yards before bridge. Approximatley here.
2012-03-26 00:08:03
Mikhail's picture is a good one^
Where you see River Ave sloping up leads to the 31st St Bridge.
2012-03-26 02:12:01
alternatively you could jog up the switchback to the old railroad bridge that connects to washington's landing and jog along the trail there to the base of the 30th st bridge (the little ramp down to washington's landing from the end of the 31st st bridge) you will see a sign for herr's island/washinton's landing along the trail as you head upriver. its really pretty hard to miss.
2012-03-26 04:23:07
Thank You - We ended up in the little condo plan on the island and there is an access from there.
Does anyone know anything about that little island community?
2012-03-26 14:31:33
That's the path I described above. Washingtons Landing/Herrs Island.
2012-03-26 14:54:29
We went through there on Friday's Flock ride. There's residential on the downstream end, quite a few offices on the upstream end, and a large parking lot under the 31SBr if you wanted to avoid Downtown parking and bike in -- though I don't know how full it gets during the average weekday.
2012-03-26 16:15:14
It stays pretty empty for the 'colder' 7,8 months of the year. June, July and August see it fill a good bit more due to the marina and rowing clubs, but it seems like later in the day. I can't imagine people who are taking the day off to 'go boating' are getting there as early as someone who is commuting in.
Not really sure who owns the lot…never honestly thought about it as a park-and-actually-ride lot, but great location for it.
2012-03-27 12:19:31
millvale park is a great park'n'pedal lot too. just a short ride down the trail from 31SB and much easier to access by car even with the construction.
2012-03-27 15:56:18
I used to work at the PA Environmental Protection office on the island (worst. location. ever...). While the parking lots between the buildings are restricted to workerbees and visitors for the individual building they're for--i.e., even workers in 400 can't park in the lot between 400 and 600, because that's the 600 lot--the big lot under the bridge is, as I remember it, unrestricted.
If you were coming from the north side of the river along 28, Millvale would probably be an easier place to get to, but if you were living between the rivers and working on the north shore somewhere, i could see the Landing being easier... There definitely are people who drive in to the lots along River and bike or walk the trail to the N Shore or Downtown, although they're supposed to be 4-hour parking.
2012-04-27 23:49:06