Google maps bicycle directions

[SXSW]

I think it's groovy as hell that  I can bike from NSU Broken Arrow all the way to River City Park in Sand Springs.  A distance of over 30 miles one way.

Sigh.. I miss that summer of all day bike rides... kiddo on the scene now.

Or all the way up to Skiatook via the Midland Valley trail, a distance of at least 40 miles if you take the Creek trail to the river trail and then the MV to Skiatook. 

I personally would love to see a trail extension all the way to Lake Keystone.  It would be a scenic ride and safer than riding the shoulder of Avery Drive. 

[SXSW]

Ed, we were out on old north about a week after the re-pave on the hills near the sub-division, I didn't happen to notice that they widened it, just a nice new cap of asphalt.  They had not striped it yet.  I guess I'll find out what the finished product looks like next Weds unless it rains.

Let us know what you find out.  I've driven Old North a few times and would be interested in biking it.  The views are outstanding.

[Conan71]

Let us know what you find out.  I've driven Old North a few times and would be interested in biking it.  The views are outstanding.

Start coming to the organized Weds. night ride.  It would be great to have another riding partner.  A couple of us are leaving from the 96th & Riverside parking lot to NSU and back at 5pm tonight if anyone wants to come along.

[nathanm]

Start coming to the organized Weds. night ride.  It would be great to have another riding partner.  A couple of us are leaving from the 96th & Riverside parking lot to NSU and back at 5pm tonight if anyone wants to come along.

The problem with being a lard-donkey like myself is that you can barely make it from the Aquarium in Jenks to Memorial on a bike, much less all the way out to NSU.

My problem with the trail along the new part of the Creek is constantly having to ride up and down the hills at the exits. I'm a weenie. I prefer it when the trail goes under the bridges.

[Mike 01Hawk]

The problem with being a lard-donkey like myself is that you can barely make it from the Aquarium in Jenks to Memorial on a bike

The heavily wooded hill between Yale and Sheridan right by the part that goes under the Creek.... yeah, the summer I started biking I thought I was going to friggin DIE! My heart was coming out of my mouth.  By the end of summer after a few more lazy rides, I just chuckle at how that hill gave me so much crap

[nathanm]

The heavily wooded hill between Yale and Sheridan right by the part that goes under the Creek.... yeah, the summer I started biking I thought I was going to friggin DIE! My heart was coming out of my mouth.  By the end of summer after a few more lazy rides, I just chuckle at how that hill gave me so much crap

That one is pretty bad the first time.

[sauerkraut]

Google started to do street level bike rides on trails across the nation, just like they did with the highways. They mount a camera on a bike and go down a trail. I don't know how much is done, but I heard they started in California.

[Conan71]

The problem with being a lard-donkey like myself is that you can barely make it from the Aquarium in Jenks to Memorial on a bike, much less all the way out to NSU.

My problem with the trail along the new part of the Creek is constantly having to ride up and down the hills at the exits. I'm a weenie. I prefer it when the trail goes under the bridges.

Crossing the road at Sheridan scares the crap out of me, at least there's a light at the rest of the crossings other than Harvard, but it's more or less a neighborhood street where you go across there.

You have to start somewhere.  The guy I rode with last night is quite the inspirational story.  He weighed 300 pounds when he was 30, his health was declining and had the beginnings of diabetes.  He was getting ready to get on all sorts of meds for BP and other issues the obesity was causing.  He bought a mountain bike instead and started riding every day after work.  From there he got into road biking and today he's a competitive racer and weighs 180 now.  I believe he's ridden for 5-6 years.  He's also an ex-smoker.

We wound up doing hill repeats on the "three spikes of death" down below Turkey Mountain on the trail that leads down to the west bank.  Made me realize how much the layoff for shoulder surgery set me back. "...gasp...call...gasp...EM...gasp...SA...gasp!"  We then looped the RP trail to 11th and back to 96th.  It's so nice to have the east bank open again!

[SXSW]

It's so nice to have the east bank open again!

Think they will ever connect the Turkey Mountain trail south of 71st to the Jenks bridge along the east bank?  I don't think that's on the long-range plan but would make for a better connection to the trails at Riverwalk Crossing and 'complete' the river loop with trails on both banks from 96th to 11th.

Another extension that is actually on the long-range plan is along Joe Creek from the river to LaFortune Park.  Hopefully there are plans to connect that trail to the future I-44 trail creating a nice loop inside the city limits.

[sauerkraut]

I'd like to see the RiverSide jogging trail extended farther south a few more miles.

[Hoss]

I'd like to see the RiverSide jogging trail extended farther south a few more miles.

I'd figure you'd want it north about 300 miles along US 75?