Stevens Creek Trail

Stevens Creek Trail has been a long effort to connect the bike trail sections along Stevens Creek. It has not been an easy task as easements and the paving of the trail don’t happen overnight or even in several years.

I enjoyed these trails when my children were young and learning to ride a bike. We could travel miles on good, paved trails with access them from our neighborhood in Los Altos. When you are on the trails, it is much safer than the residential streets.

The longest section of the Stevens Creek Trail is from Shoreline Park to Dale & Heatherstone Street, about a 5-mile stretch. There are access points all along the trail. Then there is a separate more southern portion of the trail that has been completed. It goes from Blackberry Farm Golf Course on Stevens Creek Blvd. to dog friendly Linda Vista Park in Cupertino.

You can park at the Blackberry Farm Golf Course lot and walk across the bridge, or better yet you can drive to Linda Vista Park and start from that end. Linda Vista to Blackberry Farm is more forested and you pass through the old Stocklmeir property and alongside the Deep Cliff Golf Course. That section is just over a mile long.

Stevens Creek was named after Elijah Stephens also was a local blacksmith and trapper. It was formerly called Cupertino Creek. Elijah Stephens was part of the Murphy Party which was the first wagon train to cross the Sierra Nevada, even before the famous Donner Party.