2011 Bike Ride
July 9th
Registration begins at 6:30am
7:00 am Start for the 100 Mile Ride
8:30 am Start for Other Rides
All rides begin at Adams again this year.
Routes are the same this year as last year's rides.
The "Bike Ride" page has all the details,
including maps and registration forms.
The trail now is 15 miles of 8 foot wide asphalt
from the
eastern trailhead in LeRoy
to the Adams City Park on the west end.
Further westward extension of the trail about 7
miles toward Rose
Creek is underway. The earthmoving and bridge work
were completed in 2010 and now that funding for paving has been
authorized adding more miles of hard surface is anticipated this summer of 2011.
There is plenty of parking at both trailheads at
LeRoy and Adams with
restroom and covered picnic areas. And at Taopi is another
restroom and picnic table with parking. Bike racks are
being added this summer at a number of key places and rest benches,
too.
Riders who wish to stay overnight may contact the
Rose Pedaler /
Log Cabin Inn (Rose Creek) or
Sweets Hotel
(LeRoy). It will also be "camping season" at
Lake Louise State Park, one of the top-rated camping facilities
in the MN State Park system.
Adams
City Park also has overnight camping and an outdoor swimming pool
near the park. All the cities, Rose Creek,
Adams,
Taopi and LeRoy have
other places of interest to visit, such as historical buildings,
prairie preserves with many native wildflowers, including some rare
ones (see our sister web -- Shooting Star Byway.
Delicious food service is available in Rose Creek,
Adams and LeRoy with choices of fine dining, down-home cooking, and
take out.
Much of the trail follows the long-abandoned railway
of the Milwaukee Road. In addition to public restrooms and
sheltered picnic areas, the trail runs through Lake Louise State
Park with its picnic and camping facilities.
You will find a warm welcome at all these places.
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Download Your
Maps
for
2011 Bike Rides
This site is one of three related webs.
The others are: Prairie
Visions and
Shooting
Star Scenic Byway. Together all three represent a cooperation by
the four small cities of Adams, LeRoy, Rose Creek and Taopi in
southeast Mower County
plus a dedicated cadre of volunteers who proudly wish to share their historic and
scenic attractions with the rest of the state and country.
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