Is Your Community a Great Place to Ride Bikes? Let Us Know!
- 30 November, 2017
- Jared
Is your community a great place to ride bikes? Want to know how your town stacks up against other places?
Taking and sharing the PlacesForBikes Community Survey is the best five minutes you can spend to make bike riding better in your town.
Your feedback will be used to encourage your local government leaders to build better places to ride. This survey is a part of the PlacesForBikes City Ratings, which launch in May 2018 and will identify the best U.S. towns for bicycling and reward those that are improving the fastest. You can also win great prizes for simply sharing your thoughts—including a new bike!
We also want to hear from your family and friends, so please share this survey through your social networks. The survey closes on December 8th.
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The Des Moines area has several great bike trails such as the Neal Smith, The
Bill Riley, The Trestle Trail, The Gae Lee
Wilson Trail the Greenbelt Trail, The Raccoon River Trail and the Chattauqua
Trail! New Bike lanes in Des Moines and The Great Western which needs improvement! Really wants the biking
community to savor their experiences
in this area! Much appreciated!
The Cannon Valley Bike Trail in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, starts above the falls of the Little Cannon River and runs along the path of the Big Cannon River for 20 miles to the historic riverfront town of Red Wing. The trail is well maintained and is a nice, level ride. It connects with a leg of the Mill Towns State Trail at it’s western terminus and runs 2.5 miles to Lake Byllesby. A newly constructed pedestrian bridge crosses the Little Cannon River downstream from the dam, affording a nice view of the spillway and bedrock below.
Is anyone else getting a message from USA Today Network when trying to take the survey? It’s referencing my “IT Department” but I am using my home computer.
“USATODAY NETWORK requires you to enroll this device to access message links
Your IT department has enabled Targeted Threat Protection for all users. This is a service that protects you from email attacks and provides live security training.
Enter your email address and we’ll send you an authentication code to verify your identity.”
I just want to make sure this is legitimate before I continue.
Me too Jill. I just don’t care to “enroll my device” in any more dark and secret places than is already necessary.
RIDE RIGHT
The Delaware and Lehigh Canal trail in eastern Pennsylvania is an outstanding place to ride. It runs along the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers from just outside Wilkes-Barre to the northeastern suburbs of Philadelphia. There are a few small gaps in the approximate 165 mile route, but land acquisition is ongoing.
My favorite portion of the trail runs from the town of Jim Thorpe, through the Lehigh Gorge State Park and ends at a trailhead about 25 miles north of the town of White Haven. You just can’t beat a sack lunch next to one of several waterfalls, or at a lakeside picnic table! Bring a camera along for the ride, because the scenery is beautiful.
Easily accessible yet far enough away from the hustle and bustle of urban areas, the D & L Trail can’t be beat.
I live in Kansas City area. This area has some great areas to bike. I don’t mind riding the paved 2ndary roads, but, for safety reasons I try to ride on bike trails. Gary Haller Trail and Oak Creek Trail in Johnson County are great. They are paved bike/walk paths with connections a person can ride 50 miles pretty easy.. Just to south, within 30 miles in Lee’s Summit you can get on the Katy Trail and ride all the way across Missouri to the Mississippi just North of St. Louis. Since it is a packed gravel old rail bed, it is flat – just long slight inclines. It goes thru some great areas (Hermann, MO) and some of the towns along the way have rail stations that have been updated into businesses to stop at.
I tried to enroll my device – used 2 different email addresses & it failed both times. Not impressed. However, my community, Warrenville, IL, is a Bike Friendly Bronze Level City (as recognized by the League of American Wheelmen). The Illinois Prairie Path, the second oldest Rails to Trails trail in the country, runs through our city and connects us to a robust network of trails that go through forest preserves and neighboring cities. If you bike here, be sure to stop at Two Brothers Brewery for lunch & a beer or just take a break and look at the wildlife in McKee Marsh or along the DuPage river trail/ This part of Illinois is pretty flat so not great training for RAGBRAI hills but good for RAGBRAI distance training.
One of the best bike trails in the South is the Atlanta to Anniston, Al 95 mile trail. This bike trail starts in Atlanta and is known as the Silver Comet Trail, at the Alabama state line the trail becomes the Chief Latiga Trail. The trail has bridges over rivers and creeks and stop lights at big road crosses. The state of Alabama is trying to extend the trail to Birmingham, another 100 miles. Wonderful ride!