Three Creeks Trail

The Three Creeks Trail is a 0.9-mile (1.5 km) pedestrian and bicycle trail that runs through the Willow Glen neighborhood in San Jose, California, from Los Gatos Creek by Lonus Street to the Guadalupe River, as the western alignment.^[1] An eastern alignment extends the trail to Coyote Creek.

The trail is unusual in that it does not run alongside a creek but instead crosses creeks.

History

The trail was previously a Union Pacific railway line as part of the Willow Glen Spur of the San Jose Branch line.^[2] A train used to travel to and from a cannery. The tracks were abandoned by the early part of 2000s decade.

As of 2013 the trail was under development. Most of the western alignment was usable although mainly as dirt track. A trestle bridge, the Willow Glen Trestle, was built in 1921 and crossed the Los Gatos Creek near Lonus Street.^[3]

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  Trestle bridge seen from south bank of Los Gatos Creek near Lonus Street.

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  Three Creeks Trail looking south-east from Coe Avenue.

The route

The trail crosses or accesses the following roads.

Diagrammatic map of Three Creeks Trail western alignment, San Jose, California

• Lonus Street
• Coe Avenue
• Leona Court, as access
• Broadway Avenue
• Willow Street, near the Bird Avenue intersection
• Bird Avenue
• Dorothy Avenue, as access
• Delmas Avenue and Milton Way, as access
• Minnesota Avenue
• Falcon Place passing Kyva Park

References