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A beautiful family park with many picnic and playground areas

This is a pleasant wooded singletrack beloved of locals, who hike, run, and bike here. However, a profusion of side trails in the area, so it's surprisingly easy to get lost if you're not paying close attention. Once you have your bearings, you can always turn those other trails into a longer ride.

The Cranberry Trail is a pleasant wooded loop not far from Fairbanks. It's a relatively serene amble that's mainly frequented by locals and is full of nature. As the trail loops around the south slope, you can expect around 150 meters (500 ft) of elevation gain.

This is a summer-only trail, and one of the older bike trails in this area. As the name suggests, it's lots of bump-eriffic fun and you might just want to ride a few loops of it with the nearby Powerline/Commuter Trail. Travel is allowed in both directions. In the winter this is designated as a ski-only trail.

At this point you're passing the University of Fairbanks Alaska Georgeson Botanical Garden to the north of the road. If you like plants, it's well worth a stop near the beginning or end of your run, although it's only open from Memorial Day to Labor Day. There is a requested donation to enter: https://georgesonbotanicalgarden.org/visit/

This starts out as a roadside run, then dives into the trees along Sheep Creek Road. If you'd like, you can use this route to connect the University of Alaska Fairbanks, or UAF, campus to the wonderful running and biking trails near Ester Dome — or just enjoy it as a fun, straightforward run in its own right.

This dirt-and-gravel trail is an easy way to piece together running loops in this area. Keep an eye out for hikers and mountain bikers — the Skyline Ridge is popular with them, too, and travel is allowed in both directions. Watch for the bright yellow of aspen leaves during the fall.

This is technically a windy, rooty mountain bike trail, but trail runners tend to love this area as well. Travel is allowed in both directions, and bikers are usually so busy dealing with the trail's twists and turns that they don't get going fast enough to present a real hazard, as long as everybody watches out for other trail users.