I am looking for a trail not as rocky as Starr Pass that one can hold a good (better) pace on. Please if anyone knows a few, let me know.
Chris
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Try the powerline/phoneline trail at sabino canyon. its a pretty nice single track that goes to the end of the tour road.
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East monument at the end of Broadway Rd. - very nice dirt trails (not rocky like Starr Pass or Phoneline).
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As a "west-sider" I tend to run the Yeatman Trail (off of Camino Del Oeste) for easy runs, can't go too fast, but better footing than Starr Pass. For faster runs I like running the Baja Loop (dirt road) - I do multiple loops for long runs, you can add on the Golden Gate part to Picture Rocks/Wade road to add on an out-and-back that would be about 11 miles. Another route I have been running of late are the series of trails near the Gilbert Ray campground ... I get 14 miles by running the outer trail loop there and then adding on some of the inner trails. You can find these trails by looking at a map of Tucson Mountain Park, look for the Prospector Trail, Golden Gate Trail and Gilbert Ray Campground.
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I would not recommend the powerline trail at Sabino canyon. It is a single track and runs along the edge of a cliff, pretty dangerous for a place to do regular runs.
One of the adjacent trails like bear canyon may be a bit better.
I've run both and found the bear loop to be a bit rocky (boulders) and the powerline trail to be fairly treacherous. 2 steps off the trail and you fall a thousand feet in some places.
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Trails in Tucson are hard. If you want to run fast, don't run on a trail. Star Pass is about as easy as it gets, really.
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I'm only using my mountain bike knowledge here, but Sweetwater and 50 Year Trail are both less rocky (or in the case of the Catalina SP portion of 50Y, a different type of rocky) than Starr Pass. Also, the west side of TMP is a little smoother than the east side.
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The trails at Catalina SP are pretty awesome. Some of the longer ones are rocky and some have steps in them, but if you can deal with that its a great place to run.
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