Urbano Drive

Run like a racehorse. A relatively flat 1 mile loop.
Open ²⁴⁄₇. Great for kids.

I live nearby and frequently walk this beautiful neighborhood street

This little road down the hill from my house is where I like to jog on sunny days. It’s exactly a mile from start to finish, which is convenient. Pretty houses, also :)

On the suggestion of my friend Chery D., I decided to write a review about Urbano Drive in the Ingleside District of San Francisco.
Living in the 21^st century in a bustling commerial city with modern gadgets and gizmos, we San Franciscans tend to forget the rich history of this beautiful and glorius place — that San Francisco existed as part of the wild west that had to be slowly tamed to the city we know today (if we can call our city «tame»). And each neighborhood had its part in history to help it.
Urbano Drive is a one-​mile loop in the neighborhood Ingleside neighborhoord less than half a mile from San Francisco State University. In this quiet residential neighborhood one would never guess that this was once a place of recreation for San Franciscans away from the booming, developing city in the early 1900s.
The one mile– loop that is Urbano Drive follows the one mile loop of the Ingleside racetrack that was built in about 1895. Hundreds of people dressed in their Sunday best to partake in the horse racing while sipping on mint juleps and braving the infamous San Francisco fog. This race track then held the 1^st car race west of the Mississippi. The life of the race track was short lived and after the 1906 earthquake, the neighborhood housed San Franciscans who lost their homes.
The once famous San Francisco race track slowly began to turn into a neighborhood of homes and developers quickly wanted to draw more residents in. As a gimmick, a large sundial was built in the neighborhood which was then known as the world’s largest Sundial. today, it is the world’s 2^nd largest Sundial.
The Sundial still stands today for all to see. It’s one of San Francisco’s hidden treasures, hidden within the area surrounded by Urbano Drive. Today, the houses you see are full of character, some are even the original houses where the jockeys once resided. The neighborhood is peaceful and beautiful and is always worthwhile to take a peek at the sundial.
So on your next run why not consider Urbano drive’s one mile loop as your track and channel the spirits of the horses that once flew over the track? And then stop in by the sundial and revel at the world’s second largest sundial that we can proudly say belongs to San Francisco.