Entering From The Whittier Narrows Recreation Area
San Gabriel Blvd and Rosemead Blvd is a very busy intersection but there is a small public utilities driveway on the south side of Durfee Ave about 300 feet (91 m) east of the intersection where you can briefly pull in to unload passengers (i.e., bike riders). The vehicle gate is closed to cars but there is a small gate for bicycles to enter the path. Travel east (left as you enter the path) and go less than a mile to join the San Gabriel River bicycle path or travel west (right) to enter Whittier Narrows Recreation Area and connect up with the Rio Hondo bike path at the far west end of Whittier Narrows. If you must park your car, from the intersection of San Gabriel Blvd and Rosemead Blvd, travel north on Rosemead about 1/2 mile and park in the free recreation area parking lot next to beautiful Legg Lake (The maintenance facility just north of this lot has an address of 555 N. Durfee Ave). To get back to the San Gabriel River bike path, go to the middle of the parking lot (halfway between the two driveway entrance/exits) and carefully cross Rosemead Blvd to a wide, smooth path marked by a green sign indicating the way to a bike path. Follow that path into the brush area and always bear right (there are numerous branches that lead onto off-limits municipal property). Within a quarter-mile you will arrive at the paved San Gabriel River connector road. Turn left and shortly come to the main path and go either left/up/north or right/down/south alongside the river.
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