Rose Bowl Three Mile Loop — Attraction in Pasadena

I’ll usually do the loop prior to or after attending stadium events. Here’s a beautiful setting with scenery for a relatively short hike! Brookside Park and Rose Bowl Stadium lots and restrooms are available to the public. There’s several hillside nature trails connecting from the loop, adding more of a semi-wilderness experience to the hike. For points of reference, I’d use the Rose Bowl Stadium for one, with the long parking lot south of the main entrance, the Arroyo aqua-duct on the westside and a golf course, on the backside. Also, the surrounding hillside homes are quite distinctive to spot from the get-go and notice...

Great place for running, both easy runs and intervals since it’s a big loop that’s almost completely flat. Free parking and not crowded. Only gripe is I had to use a porta potty that wasn’t maintained at all and trashed, and no sinks anywhere with running water to wash my hands. Came on a weekday between 5-6pm in Jan and there weren’t many people, about 70% walkers...

Easy and consistent loops around the rose bowl. The ground may be uneven in some spots and elevation keeps changing depending on the direction you go but it's one long continuous loop. Great for training, if you're running at night though beware running by the trees, the roots made the road uneven,...