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Ballona Creek Bike Path starts at Syd Kronenthal Park in east Culver City
and extends about 7 miles to the Coast Bike Path. This page details its various
entrances and gives suggested approaches. Click on their names for street maps. Note that the bikepath entrances are locked when there is a possibility of substantial rain. During rainstorms, the creek waters become dangerous and too tempting to some who might play in them.
Terminus at Syd Kronenthal Park (1)
From Jefferson Boulevard, heading west across La Cienega, cross Ballona Creek (now on National) and turn right at the creek onto the sidewalk and the bike path entrance behind the park's ballfield backstop. You'll go down a steep ramp and make a u-turn onto the bike path. Before you do that, check out the colorful mural on the retaining wall behind the backstop. BCR helped create it with the young people depicted in the design. One of a few alternate approaches to the entrance is down National from Washington Boulevard, but care needs to be taken when crossing National to get to the entrance.
Approachable from either Culver or Jefferson, this well-used entrance is on the downstream side across from Culver City's Transportation Facility. You can't miss BCR's “Rivers of the World” mural on the entrance ramp (unless you entered at Syd Kronenthal Park) or the giant urn sculpture across the creek.
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Approachable from either Culver or Jefferson, this entrance is on the downstream side next to the Culver City Julian Dixon Library, where you'll see BCR's “Postcards From Ballona” mural on the parking lot retaining wall behind the library as you enter the bike path. There is a second entrance on the upstream side of Overland Avenue.
This entrance is located on Ocean Drive, which is immediately south of the creek west of Overland Avenue, and crosses the creek to the bikepath via the pedestrian bridge.
There are bikepath entrances on both sides of Sepulveda Boulevard on the north side of the creek.
The entrance is located on tiny Culver Drive on the north side of the creek, a block west of Sawtelle Avenue.
This entrance is located where Slauson Avenue dead-ends into the creek on the north side. The entrance ramp passes through a little community garden.
Entrance is on the east side of Inglewood Boulevard.
One entrance is on the west side of the street, where there is some off-street space for parking. Another entrance is on the east side of Centinela Avenue, a few yards down a small side street called Culver Drive.
Reachable from Culver Blvd or Braddock Ave, this entrance is located where McConnell Ave ends at the north side of the creek.
There are entrances are on both sides of Lincoln Boulevard, but there is no parking available. Lincoln Boulevard is at present not a bike-friendly street, although there are tentative plans to install bike lanes or off-street bike paths which would connect to Ballona Creek.
You can park at Fisherman's Village (a fee lot) to access the Ballona Creek bikepath off of Fiji Way.
At the western end of Ballona Creek, the bikepath crosses over the Pacific Avenue bridge and connects with the beach bikepath which extends south to Redondo Beach.