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This is the southern half of the Santa Ana River Bikeway - the longest and best off-road cycling route in the Los Angeles area. (Click on the Upper Santa Ana, on this web page, for the northern portion.) You'd have to go down toward San Diego to find anything comparable. The bikeway runs more than 40 miles in all, from Green River Canyon, where the Santa Ana first emerges from the mountains in San Bernardino, through all kinds of residential neighborhoods and nature preserves, passing by The City, the Big A, and even affording a view of Disneyland's Matterhorn in the distance.
The path finally reaches the Pacific Ocean between Huntington Beach and Costa Mesa, where you can easily connect to the bikeways to the north or south along the beach. Fairview and Centennial are two of the larger parks along this half of the route; Mile-Square isn't too far away, and there are lots of smaller rest stops as well. (Access is virtually continuous.)
To get a really good idea of the many moods of the Santa Ana Trail, Upper and Lower, check out Dan Slater's photos of Southern California Bicycle Trails. Thomas Guide, pp. 799, 829, 858 and 888.
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