Comments on: Burke-Gilman Trail / Sammamish River Trail

By: Jennifer Hodgdon

Jennifer Hodgdon — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:27:12 +0000

Indeed, it’s an interesting choice on what must be the most popular bike trail in the Seattle area… but on the other hand, most paving-related projects in the Northwest have to be done in summer, due to weather concerns, so maybe that is it? (Trying to give them too much benefit of the doubt? Perhaps…)

By: Mike Wallace

Mike Wallace — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:30:59 +0000

I don’t understand why they would start this construction right at the beginning of summer.

By: Todd Holman

Todd Holman — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:00:02 +0000

It’s official. The BG trail is scheduled to be closed June 15th, 2011 through December 15th, 2011. Yep. That’s 6 months to fix 2 miles.

By: Todd Holman

Todd Holman — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:36:07 +0000

This seems a bit late now but some of our readers may not know. They are redoing the two mile section in Lake Forest Park from Logboom Park and 145th. The plan is to shut this section of trail down completely for SIX months while they redo. Last report is starting time is late May, 2011 or early June 2011 and any detour route is sketchy. In fact, they recommend you take the bus along this stretch. In fact, at the time of this writing, a detour route has not been officially selected.

http://www.cityoflfp.com/city/planning/bg-trail/default.html

By: Jennifer Hodgdon

Jennifer Hodgdon — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:15:23 +0000

Yes, there are some spots like that! King County has been making some repairs the last couple of years though, and I’ve heard that Lake Forest Park finally stopped blocking trail repairs, so some of the worst sections up at the top end of Lake Washington will hopefully get fixed.
–Jennifer

By: Art

Art — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:45:53 +0000

The problem I have with the Burke-Gillman trail is roots pushing up underneath the asphalt making a bumping ride in places.

By: Todd Holman

Todd Holman — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:47:54 +0000

I have to disagree with a couple minor points on Dave\’s post above me. There are indeed several places where the rider waits at stop lights. Two of them in fact are in Kenmore at the northeast corner of the lake. In addition, there are at least three stop lights in the U-District and a couple on the street ride in Ballard. In fact, I can see why people in that area are anxious to get this connecting piece of trail. The street ride, while short, is a bit lame. But all-in-all for a ride of 31+ miles that travels through a major urban area, it\’s got very few stop lights to contend with and almost all stop signs are located on the western side of the lake.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:56:22 +0000

Hello, I ride this route quite often between Redmond and my home in North Seattle. The best thing about it is that there are no stop lights to wait at. It makes the trip quick and satisfying and there isn\’t too much street riding. If you want more info on the best routes around Seattle, see info on the great Seattle and King County bike maps on my blog at http://www.chikenz.com/Blogsite/?page_id=17

By: Theresa

Theresa — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:45:14 +0000

Thanks! Thank you for the quick reply too. :)

By: Jennifer Hodgdon

Jennifer Hodgdon — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:28:31 +0000

Sorry, I don’t have that GPS trace any more. On my To Do list is to make a way to get a GPX generated from the same database that puts the blue lines on the map, but I haven’t done it yet.

Maybe I’ll have some time over the holidays to work on this, we’ll see!

Jennifer