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title: Hongqiao Airport Loop
description: The airport loop does as the name suggests, goes around hongqiao airport. Get ready to see planes continually taking off and landing as well as bird scarer
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## Hongqiao Airport Loop

- A 15km loop around Hongqiao Airport
- Publicly accessible roads and paths
- Shops to get supplies on the southern side
- Few traffic lights to interrupt your running flow
- Can be noisy from road traffic, planes and the runway bird scarer cannons
- Not much shade from the summer sun

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## The Route

As the name would suggest, this route goes around the Hongqiao International Airport. It is accessible from many directions and connected to metro lines 2 and 10 with stations not too far away. Can be run both clockwise and counter-clockwise

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