My preferred route is to take the Los Gatos Creek trail up to Lexington Reservoir, take Alma Bridge Road along the east side of the reservoir, and take Old Santa Cruz highway to Summit Road, to Soquel San Jose Road, and take that down to Soquel. There is a fair amount of traffic on Soquel San Jose Road as you approach Soquel.
The Google Maps route takes you down Mountain Charlie, which I've gone up, but not down. It's narrow, steep, and has rough pavement. It's a popular route northbound (its steep grades attract a lot of climbers), but I don't hear of people taking it in the southbound direction much. I've taken Highway 9 too. It is okay early on weekend mornings, but there is quite a bit more traffic than Old Santa Cruz Highway/Soquel San Jose. Horace. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:16 AM, franklyn <sini...@msn.com> wrote: > For those familiar with routes in the South (San Francisco) Bay area, > can you recommend a route from San Jose to Santa Cruz? My wife and I > are taking the train down to San Jose then riding to Santa Cruz to > stay overnight. Google suggests a route that includes Los Gatos Creek > Trail and kind of goes along the highway (17). I also found a route > that goes to Saratoga, then up to the ridge on Big Basin Way and then > follows HWY 9 to Santa Cruz. > > We would like to avoid cars as much as possible, and enjoy some good > scenery. Since we are staying at a hotel, we won't be carrying too > much stuff. I am thinking about taking my Bleriot, which has just > received a VO front constructeur rack and a Campagne bag (I had > sitting around). She will probably take her Trek 620. > > It should be fun. > > Franklyn > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
