The City of Harrisonburg offers various walking/running trails throughout the various parks.
- Purcell Park
Purcell Park has a 1.5-mile path around the park and is a popular target among Harrisonburg residents.
- Ralph Sampson Park
Ralph Sampson Park has a natural surface paths looping the perimeter of the park.
- Smithland Athletics Complex
Smithland Atheltics Complex has a natural surface trail (0.75 miles) as well as comfort stations.
- Bluestone Trail
The Bluestone Trail is a 1-mile shared-use path that connects people between James Madison University; Port Republic Road and Hillside Avenue; Purcell Park and the surrounding neighborhood; and businesses along Stone Spring Road. The shared-use path is 10-feet wide, hard surfaced, and is used by many walkers, joggers, and bicyclists for transportation and recreation.
Visitors driving to visit the Bluestone Trail can park their vehicles at Purcell Park.
- Northend Greenway
Northend Greenway is envisioned to be a 2.5-mile shared-use path connecting people in north Harrisonburg with places they want to go. Multiple phases of the Northend Greenway have been completed.
- Friendly City Trail
Friendly City Trail is more than two miles long and connects three schools (Harrisonburg High School, Bluestone Elementary, and Thomas Harrison Middle School), two parks (Hillandale Park and Westover Park), and several neighborhoods. This trail also passes along The Rocktown Trails.
- Rocktown Trails & Hillandale Park
Rocktown Trails at Hillandale Park is a joint effort of Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition volunteers and the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA). The trail system offers three different levels of difficulty to appeal to a complete spectrum of runners, walkers and cyclists from novice to expert. Designed and developed in accordance with the IMBA guidelines for sustainable shared-use trails, it has a system of stacked loop trails with three levels of difficulty.
There are two entrances to the trails: (1) in the parking lot across from Shelter #11 in Hillandale Park for vehicular parking and (2) for pedestrian and cyclist users at the far west end of South Avenue where South Avenue intersects with South Dogwood Drive (no vehicular parking allowed).
The trails are also open to runners and walkers.
Hillandale Park also has a 1.3-mile path.
- Heritage Oaks Golf Course
Heritage Oaks Golf Course has miles of cart paths that are open for walking prior to 8:00am.
Learn more about planned and proposed biking and walking routes in Harrisonburg on our Transportation Projects page.
Check out full City biking and walking maps:
