Los Gatos Creek Trail

The route is, starting from the south and progressing north: There are two trails between Lexington Reservoir and downtown Los Gatos.

[1] The Jones and Flume trails connect with Novitiate Park and the St. Joseph's Hill Open Space Preserve.

As the trail reaches downtown Los Gatos, the first access point is at the Main Street bridge.

Nearby there are access points at the end of Lundy Lane and immediately behind the Old Town shopping area.

[1] Attractions in this pair of parks include the Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad and a Lockheed T-33A airplane on which kids can crawl.

Via Oak Meadow Park there is access near the corner of Blossom Hill Drive and University Avenue.

Via Vasona Park there is access from the west at University Avenue and Pepper Tree Lane and from the north at Garden Hill Drive.

This park also features a bridge to the east side of Los Gatos Creek that connects to additional trails around the two large percolation ponds there.

The trail next heads through San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood, ending at Meridian Avenue.

[5] Lonus is a stub street extending west/northwest from Lincoln Avenue, approximately 9⁄10 mi (1.4 km) northeast of the main trail's terminus on Meridian.

The terminus of the trail at Dupont is immediately below a set of stairs that allows easy access to the bridge that carries West San Carlos Street over the creek and the Caltrain lines.

This bridge connects the trail into central downtown San Jose and the east side of the train station.

The Town of Los Gatos has a current construction project to add a new connection to the trail at Highway 9.

This project adds a ramp on the south side of the highway along with a new bridge over the creek to reach the trail.

The trail on the western bank of the river starts on the north side of W. Virginia Ave, just east of the bridge over highway 87.

Climb the stairs to San Carlos, travel east on San Carlos, north on Barack Obama Avenue, east on Santa Clara Street, and then down the access stairs to the trail on the eastern bank of the river.

This connection provides a good path between the eastern part of Willow Glen and Downtown San Jose.