Guadalupe Creek Trail

The Guadalupe Creek Trail (GCT) is a ±1.75-mile trail located at the North end of Almaden Valley. The trail begins across the street from Almaden Lake on the opposite side of Almaden Expwy, and actually has two trailheads (one by Chris Hotts Park and one closer to Coleman Rd) that eventually converge, about a few hundred feet into the trail. The trail parallels the north edge of Guadalupe Creek and continues in a southwesterly direction before ending on Singletree Wy, by the massive PG&E Substation. Overall, it’s a pretty unimpressive trail that has some decent views, but ultimately it’s just too short – for now. Here’s a quick rundown:
Access points:
–Almaden Expwy/​Chris Hotts Park
–Meridian Ave
–Singletree Wy
Trail Difficulty:
Very easy to navigate trail that’s really wide, and very flat. My biggest complaint is that none of it is paved and is that funky aggregate base rock that makes a lot of dust and gets rocks in your shoes when you try and run on it.
Views:
The beginning of the trail takes you by the 10 Los Capitancillos Groundwater Recharge Ponds, that are sitting mostly empty these days thanks to the drought. The rest of the way you’ll have the creek to the south and neighbor’s fences to the north, until you reach the final half-​mile where you’ll be on a SCVWD maintenance road and surrounded by giant transmission towers.
They have a pretty awesome ±$ 10M Master Plan for the GCT that includes extending it far south along Hicks Rd, and all the way up to Almaden Quicksilver County Park – and they even have designs on a pedestrian bridge to get you safely across Almaden Expwy and connect to the Upper Guadalupe River Trail; which can take you to Almaden Lake, and eventually as far north as Alviso. However, it’s just a plan at this stage and I have no idea when, or if, it’ll ever happen. In the meantime, it is what it is.