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I have drafted our 2026 bike ride schedule, and will post the routes after more of this year's construction is completed and the new routes are mappable on RWGPS. (The Kenilworth Trail is now half open!) We will again run this program from May through September, at 9AM Monday mornings departing from Maetzold Field Parking lot. Our trip to Lanesboro on May 31-June 2 is already full, so please contact me personally if you would like to be on a waiting list. Winter has arrived in Minnesota, but spring biking will be here before you know it!
Peggy
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We finished our biking season on a perfect day, with lots of sunshine and pleasant temperatures. Jackets were shed along the way. Our ride was short but had enough hills to balance out the feast afterwards. Thank you, everyone, for sharing great food and conversation! Once again I forgot to take pictures at the party, but see the ride report for some taken at our break at Gray's Bay Dam, the Headwaters of Minnehaha Creek. ridewithgps.com/trips/337842191 See you in the spring! Peggy  The weather doesn't feel like it, but summer is Over. Our final bike ride will be on Sept. 29th, an 18 mile trip to the Headwaters of Minnehaha Creek at Grays Bay. We will mostly be biking on quiet residential roads on this route.
ridewithgps.com/routes/49109036 We should get back to Hopkins at 11:00 AM, to wrap up the season with a potluck lunch party. Everyone who biked with me on Mondays is invited, along with partners/spouses. Please come on over even if you don't bike the morning ride! You can drop your food off at the Hopkins Activity Center before our ride, and they have some refrigerator space. We will gather in the lounge, and enjoy the A/C. Thanks for biking with me this summer! Peggy This morning we biked 32 miles on our trip to the Minnesota Arboretum Applehouse. It hailed and stormed last night but the rain moved out before our ride so we stayed dry. The sun even came out for the last half hour! We had a fun ride nearly completely on wooded trails. Unfortunately the donut truck was closed but inside the Applehouse some found delicious caramel apples. After our ride jet-lagged MA shared Turkish Delight. For our route and photos, see ridewithgps.com/trips/335285308.  Fall colors are just beginning to tint our woods, so I updated our ride to take us along wooded trails throughout. Our destination is also a fall special - the Arboretum Applehouse. You can purchase a snack or a bushel of apples, whatever you desire! We'll take a break there and have time to check the place out - and probably return later in your car for that bushel. Our 32 mile route is ridewithgps.com/routes/48977105. The trails we'll follow include the Minnesota River Bluffs Trail, the Rice Marsh Lake Trail, Lake Susan Trail, Bluff Creek Trail, Arboretum Trail and Lake Minnetonka Trail.
Year End Party for Hopkins Bike Club Monday Active Ride Bikers
It’s time to celebrate a great biking season with a year-end potluck party after our last bike ride. We will gather indoors, in the lounge of the Hopkins Activity Center. Please park at the Maetzold Field lot as usual. Before our bike ride you can stop by the HAC to drop off food. There will be some refrigerator space available.
No need to RSVP for lunch, although you must register as usual for the bike ride. It will be great to see everyone on September 29th! Thank you so much for joining my bike group this year. It’s been such fun sharing my favorite routes with you! Peggy Kvam and the Hopkins Activity Center Feeling more like summer than September, we avoided scattered storms and welcomed the morning's dark clouds on this hot, humid day. We biked the Nine Mile Creek Trail, then cruised through the airport roads without catching a plane, to reach Fort Snelling State Park. It's a huge park! The Visitor Center was a nice shady respite, where we read the educational displays about the Native Americans who were forced to leave the area. Then we biked up the beautiful Minnehaha Trail for one last look at Minnehaha Falls for the season. We returned on trails and roads to Hopkins. Our ride report is posted at ridewithgps.com/trips/332605506  We have a long ride planned for Monday, about 36 miles round trip to Fort Snelling State Park. We will probably get back to Hopkins close to 1 PM as there will be several water breaks on this warm summer day. It's not a flat rail trail ride, but it's not particularly hilly.
Our route is https://ridewithgps.com/routes/48881442. We will take the Nine Mile Creek Trail to its end in Bloomington, then swing through the airport to enter the park at Post Rd. Don't zoom down the hill until after our photo op at the Fort Snelling State Park monument sign! The park trail is very bumpy so we will take the less bumpy park roadway down to the Visitor Center for our break. Our return takes us up the lovely newly repaved Minnehaha Trail and we will stop to see the falls one last time for the season. Then we will mainly follow the Minnehaha Trail back to Lake Harriet, and take a shortcut back to the South Cedar Trail which leads back to Hopkins. There are very few restrooms along the Nine Mile Creek Trail, and many cities have already removed port-a-potties from parks for the season. I plan to make a short detour at Centennial Lakes where there is a lovely indoor facility around 9.5 miles into our ride. You can refill water bottles there, too. This stop adds a half mile to our route, but I think it's worth it! We only have 7 signed up for this ride so far. See you on Monday! We enjoyed both a beautiful fall day and 8 bridges crossing the Mississippi. Photos were taken at the historic Stone Arch Bridge and the little Nicollet Island footbridge. We also got a taste of campus life, crossing Northrup Mall at the U of M and the double-decker Washington Ave. bridge to West Bank. We bumped over cobblestone pavement in the St. Anthony Falls neighborhood, then took a break at Water Works Park. After that we crossed a couple more bridges to see quaint Victorian homes as we circled Nicollet Island. We returned along Nicollet Mall and stopped to say hi to Mary Tyler Moore. Our last scenic stop was at the iconic Spoon and Cherry in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Our ride report with more photos is posted at ridewithgps.com/trips/329914783.  The Mississippi Bridges ride is so fun. The very familiar South Cedar Trail brings us to the river, where we will enjoy a stretch with lots of scenery and interesting new routes before taking the North Cedar Trail back to Hopkins. Our ride takes us across 8 river bridges, and we will stop on a couple for photos: the recently reopened historic Stone Arch Bridge, and the footbridge between Nicollet Island and Boom Island. We will also bike through the East and West Bank campuses of the University of Minnesota with a break on the West Bank plaza near the unfortunately fenced-off shoe tree. Students are on campus again, so please don't run any over as we cross Northrup Mall! We will bike a loop around Nicollet Island to enjoy the peaceful riverside village ambiance so close to downtown, and later we'll bike down Nicollet Avenue and salute Mary Tyler Moore, who made it after all in the big city. Finally, we will stop at the Sculpture Garden for a photo with the iconic Spoon and Cherry.
Here is our route: ridewithgps.com/routes/49049157. At this date we only have 7 signed up for this ride. There is lots of room for more! |
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