What are your best biking places in your city?

[Donald Bridge]

I live and ride in Eustis, FL

[dh08]

Hello, bike riders!
Let's share our favorite biking places in our own cities. It can be a loop around the local park, a mountain bike trail or simply your daily morning commute route.

[*]The Detroit Riverwalk in Detroit
[*]It's my favorite because I love riding next to the water.

[Xaun Loc]

Shepherdsville KY -- no "good" places to ride, but no really "bad" places either (unless you count the Interstate that runs through town).

Most of our rural roads are a bit narrow and a bit twisty, there's not too much traffic, but what traffic there is tends to be going a bit too fast and not really looking for anything like a bike, so it's up to you to keep from getting hit.

[Ashley]

Bullitt County KY. Anywhere outside Shepherdsville & Brooks are two lane asphalt. The road maps were all drawn by a snake with a broken spine.

[KF40272]

I mostly just ride around my subdivision in Valley Station Kentucky. Occasionally out to the Dollar Store or Circle K.

[Suzanne Brown]

Holden, MO - The stretch of the Katy Trail that runs from Pleasant Hill, MO to Holden, MO. I like it because it is a short ride from my hometown to the town where my sons antique store is located. So I have a place and time to rest before I head back again, plus a nice visit with my son. Also its fairly level, which makes it easier for a beginning rider. And there is a nice parking area so I don't have to ride along the narrow country road to get to it.

[R A Bollinger]

It's not a loop but I think that the new dedicated bike lanes in downtown Seattle make it so much easier to get around the city center and allow me to do everything I want to on my bike.

[wocot]

In Manitowoc, WI, we have a beautiful trail along Lake Michigan, connecting to an even more beautiful trail through the woods in a state park. Two distinct rides in one.

[Laurie L Freeman]

(07-02-2021, 02:37 PM)Nicholas Wrote:  Hello, bike riders!
Let's share our favorite biking places in our own cities. It can be a loop around the local park, a mountain bike trail or simply your daily morning commute route.

• Huntsville, AL, Hayes Nature preserve
  Nice wide walking/biking paths that go for miles.
  

[Circuitboyscott]

The best place to ride in Paducah, KY is a big downtown park called Noble Park. It has a big lake in the middle and you can ride on the the road that goes around the lake through the park.

[PrettyCurious]

I have only been to a few so far, but I really like the trails at Oakdale in Lapeer Michigan. Sorry, I didn't take any pictures.

[Xia Lee]

(07-03-2021, 06:49 PM)Michael Perkins Wrote:  Pretty much anywhere here in AZ , summer aLL year long

Lake Shore in Chicago

[Leland Lee Lee]

Lake Shore in Chicago

[Anita McMurtrey]

Is the new bike path across the street which is wider and safe.

[jlee9355]

Burke Gilman Trail in Seattle is Amazing. Really beautiful and a good workout.

[Papa Dom]

(07-03-2021, 09:58 PM)Criminal Wrote:  MCRT gorge sections near Rutland MA

thanks for sharing your photos, Howard. these sections have a very nice, even magical/fairytale feel!

[Anne Millbrooke]

The best places depend upon mode of biking in any locale. I love bike riding, roads, paths, fields. I also love walking and hate to play dodge-a-bike on trails not open to bikers or not open to ebikers, dirtbikes, motorbikes. My right to bike does not negate someone else's right to walk. I wish more people understood the concept of personal agency and responsibility, then we all could have fun without conflicting-use problems along the way. I travel a lot and encounter this here, there, and elsewhere.

[ardy22]

Tanglewood Park in Clemmons NC is a great place to ride.

[Criminal]

(07-24-2021, 07:00 AM)Papa Dom Wrote:  

(07-03-2021, 09:58 PM)Criminal Wrote:  MCRT gorge sections near Rutland MA

thanks for sharing your photos, Howard. these sections have a very nice, even magical/fairytale feel!

You are welcome! I wish more folks would add some imagery since I drive by many of those areas described and would not mind taking a detour now and then. I delivered a bike to someone in N. Carolina who purchased it online, but needed someone to bring it to him to save on shipping. It was a nice break to get out the car and take ride around his neighborhood (he rode with me as a guide) and see the sites. It does not matter whether a mile ride or dozens of miles; new trails/roads to me are exciting; probably why I enjoy touring now since racing is no longer feasible.

As a side note I have done photography as a side job before and those gorge shots needed a wee bit of help due to the rainforest effect caused by the cold stone and the humid air. You were literally riding through a mist in that area so I modified to cut out some of the haze; but the sun glare added a nice touch.

[Dave Taube]

I live in Eugene, OR. My favorite biking place is the paved path along the Willamette River. I ride on the path regularly and I always look forward to going past the Delta Ponds, where I usually see herons, ospreys, kingfishers, turtles, nutria and other wildlife.