Beach Cities Greenway

[1][2] The greenway is a linear park on the median between Valley Drive running along the west side and Ardmore Avenue on the east.

The boundary between the two municipalities is approximately the 1st Street crossing but technically occurs “mid-block.”[3] Popular with joggers and dog walkers, amenities along the trail include quarter-mile markers, outdoor fitness equipment, public art installations, benches and drinking fountains.

[5][6] For those who seek an extended workout, two blocks from the southern terminus of the greenway, down Herondo Street, is the Strand, part of the larger 22-mile (35 km) Coastal Bike Trail along the Pacific Ocean.

A depot at Ardmore and Pier Avenue was demolished in the 1960s as the rail route was already languishing, and local residents began guerrilla gardening trees along the easement.

[2] Hermosa Beach is planning to make sections of the route more accessible to wheelchair users, initially by replacing wood chips with decomposed granite along a five-block stretch between Pier Avenue and Eighth Street.