Category: Bike trails
Hundreds of cyclists took to the roads of Pierce County on Sunday for the annual Tour de Pierce bike ride, sponsored by the county parks and recreation department.
New for this year's ride was a section of the Foothills Trail, which meanders for about 17 or 18 miles from Meeker, near Puyallup, to South Prarie Creek and beyond to Buckley. Although the bike ride didn't follow the entire route, cyclists did get a taste of the 12-foot-wide trail that boasts stunning views of Mount Rainier, above.
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Bicyclists are celebrating today's official opening of a 10.6-mile rail-to-trail that links Sarasota and Venice.
The Legacy Trail takes the place of an abandoned CSX Transportation railway line that was purchased for $14.5 million in 2004. It's one of more than 1,460 rail-trails in the US that stretch across nearly 14,000 miles of landscape.
The paved path is 12 feet wide and is already popular with walkers and rollerbladers as well as cyclists. It has six trailheads …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/03/28/legacy-trail-opens-for-bicyclists-in-florida/
There's a more than 100-mile-long abandoned railway corridor on Washington's Olympic Peninsula that is being transformed into a first-rate bicycling trail named the Olympic Discovery Trail.
When completed it will stretch all the way from La Push on the Pacific Ocean, across the base of the northern slope of the Olympic Mountains, to bustling Port Townsend on Puget Sound.
More than a third of the trail is routed and paved (primarily the central portion connecting Port Angeles and Sequim on the Strait of Juan del Fuca), and volunteers are beginning work on another section east of Sequim that brings the trail closer to Port Townsend ……
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/12/20/work-continues-on-olympic-discovery-trail/
One day as a newspaper reporter in an earlier life, I was stuck on a small boat in the Chesapeake Bay with a US Fish & Wildlife Service biologist. To avoid justifying the environmental policies of the current adminstration (Reagan), he swung the conversation around to books.
His favorite was “A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold. I had never heard of this conservationist (he died in 1948), so I bought that book a few days later. It later found a place on the bookshelf with John Muir, Edward Abbey, Colin Fletcher and John McPhee.
Leopold's home state of Wisconsin has honored his memory by naming the state's 42 trails as the Aldo Leopold Legacy Trail System….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/25/wisconsin-trails-named-for-conservationist-aldo-leopold/
Many of the long bicycle trails in the Eastern US don't fade away at the state line, they just change names and keep on truckin'.
I'd been digging into some cool, long-distance suggestions for bicycle tours on “non-motorized trails” when I discovered that many well-known bike trails meet at the state borders.
Such is the case on the Georgia-Alabama border where Silver Comet joins the Chief Ladiga. It happens twice between Maryland and Pennsylvania, where the C&O Canal and Northern Central meet the Great Allegheny Passage and York County Heritage Trail…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/16/6-eastern-bike-trails-that-make-the-connection/
By MikeBitton at flickrMany of the rails-to-trails routes in Washington state are suitable for skinny-tired road bikes. In fact, more than half of the 63 rails-to-trails in the state have surfaces that road bikes can handle.
Not the Klickitat Trail in southern Washington. One of the most remote rails-to-trails in the US, it is recommended that visitors use mountain bikes, preferably with front suspension.
The 31-mile trail is the trail-of-the-month for the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. The trail starts in Swale Canyon then hooks up with the meandering Klickitat River, nationally designated as a Wild and Scenic River. It ends at the confluence of the Klickitat and Columbia rivers (above). …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/04/klickitat-trail-welcomes-mountain-bikers-in-southern-washington/
There's a bicycle path in northern Pennsylvania called the Pine Creek Rail Trail that meanders 62 miles along a river that passes through a valley aptly called the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania.
The Rails to Trails Conservancy conducted a survey there last year that proves the adage heard in the movie Field of Dreams: “Build it and they will come.”
The survey found that not only do they come, but they contribute to the local economies. While the trail has cost about $12.6 million to build since 1995, the Pine Creek survey determined that visitors spend from $5 million to $7 million a year, most of which is spent in the local communities along the trail.
Leaving aside the aesthetic or fitness benefits of a trail, that economic impact should encourage all communities to take those old bike trail plans off the shelf, dust them off, and start spreading the crushed limestone or asphalt…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/29/build-it-and-they-will-come-and-spend-pennsylvanias-pine-creek-rail-trail/
Instead of complaining about all the trash along a section of a bike path, members of the Mid-Valley Bicycle Club in Corvallis, Oregon, are taking matters into their own hands.
Ten cyclists met at the bike path along 99W, and in little more than an hour had picked up 20 large garbage bags of crap from along the one-mile stretch. Among the items they found was a stripped down bicycle frame, which they're considering upgrading into a new bike.
Good deeds like these aren't isolated to Corvallis. Bicycling groups all over are joining “Adopt-a-trail” campaigns in communities to keep their trails clean ……
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/28/tired-of-trail-side-trash-adopt-a-bike-trail/
A bike ride among some friends along the 57-mile New River State Park trail in Virginia ended in tragedy recently when a rock slab broke loose from an overhang and killed a cyclist.
Park officials say the rock fall “appears to have been an isolated natural act.” It's the second time since the abandoned railroad bed was converted to a trail that someone has been killed by a falling rock.
According to reports, Sudie Jenkins Hatcher, 48, from High Point, N.C., was riding with friends in the Austinville area of the trail on Oct. 20. A slab from a rock overhang broke loose, rolled down a hill before it tumbled through the air and struck Hatcher …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/28/falling-rock-slab-kills-cyclist-on-virginia-bike-trail/
Piece by piece, the proposed 3,000-mile East Coast Greenway bike trail is coming together.
The latest section to be designated for the Maine to Florida bicycle route is about 11 miles of the Bronx River Trail (about half is complete) between White Plains and the Bronx. The unfinished portions are in the planning stages.
When complete, the East Coast Greenway will stretch from Calais, Maine, to Key West, Florida, with the ultimate goal of being off-road and traffic-free. About 21 percent of the trail is open to public use…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/19/another-link-added-to-the-east-coast-greenway-bike-trail/
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