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BE CAREFUL & BE PREPARED!!! If you see or have an accident on the bicycle trail that requires emergency medical care, call 911 immediatly. Then for additional assistance,call: • On the lower portion of the trail from Discovery Park to Hazel Ave. : 875-7275 (Sacramento County) • On the uper section from Hazel Ave to Beal's: 358-1300 (State of California Parks dispatch) (You may want to add these numbers to your cell phone list.) Carry your driver's license (or copy) and a list of contact phone numbers. They may save your life if you ever have an accident. |
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| This is a summary prepared by Marv Philo that 49er riders might be interested in knowing.
Most of this information is from the Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates American River Trail And Adjoining Areas: (1) The bike trail will be repaired where tree roots and drain off has damaged the trail. Repairs will begin (or have begun) at Pond Park downstream to Watt Ave. Other sections will be repaired later. The trail above Nimbus Dam and to Beale's Point is the responsibility of the Folsom State Recreation Area. I don't believe they have the funds for repairs due to State funding problems. (2) A new trail in Folsom will be built on the south side of L. Natoma. It is called the Folsom Historic Powerhouse/Folsom Lake Regional Trail Project. ($895,000) This trail will eliminate the need to ride Liedersdorf St. (from Karen coffee shop to the link trail that goes up and through the rodeo grounds). (3) In Rancho Cordova a bike trail connection to the Folsom Canal bicycle trail will be built to Douglas Rd. This will make a safe off-road trip to the Mather Cafe at the golf course, etc. ($204,000) Also, under the "Rails to Trails" program, the old Mather Railroad spur (along Mather Field Drive) that goes into and through parts of Mather will be made into a bicycle trail. ($580,000) (4) West Capitol Ave will be much safer to ride. It will be reduced from 6 to 4 lanes to make room for wide bicycle lanes. This should make it much safer to ride it to breakfast. They are working on this and it should be done by May of this year to Jefferson Blvd. Also, the Clarksburg Branch Trail may be paved. It is decomposed granite now. It follows the rail tracks toward Clarksburg and ends in about 3 miles going into the streets (with bike lanes) the new residential development called Southport. Unfortunately, riders then must return to Jefferson Blvd where a lack of bicycle lanes and high speed traffic make it ugly for all but the suicidal. Eventually the trail will make it to Clarksburg using the railroad right of way and parts of the Main Drain Canal. (5) The K Street Mall is now open to bicycles (no more walking your bike) but bicyclists are warned to go slow and to give pedestrians the right of way or this privilege will be lost. The light rail tracks are still a hazard for bicyclists tires to "drop" in to. (6) 49ers do not ride downtown streets often but safety has been much improved by eliminating several one way, 3 lane "freeways" by changing to 2 lanes or two-way streets with wide, striped bicycle lanes. This has slowed and organized traffic. We may want to consider breakfast spots in the city as a break from regular places. (7) Our excursions to Awful Wally’s (Pete's ride) used the Two Rivers Bike trail. That trail is going to be extended along the river and will go under the bridges. When completed, we will not cross streets on our way back to get to the 20th Street bike trail and the AR bike trail. $500,000 has been allocated as a study project. EL DORADO COUNTY: (Rails to Trails) Eventually the old railroad line (abandoned) to Placerville will be a multi-use bicycle trail going from Folsom to Placerville (we ride part of it in Folsom when we go to Early Toast/Gold Miner for breakfast--remember the railroad by the trail?). Part of the east end of the trail (about 8 miles) is completed in Placerville (some of you have rode it). Last summer, it was extended about 3 miles to the west where it crosses a trestle bridge across Webber creek and ENDS. I doubt that we will ride in this area...but it is interesting. A 75 MILE LOOP: Finally, there is a plan for connecting existing off-road bike trails to make a 75 loop. 80% of the trails exist (most of it is made up of the AR bike trail, Folsom bike trails, Sac Northern trail, and Ueda bike trail). It is just a matter of building some trail connections, overpasses, and crossing signals before it is complete. Most of the work is in Placer county in the Roseville area using the existing Dry Creek Greenway (some trails already in). The Greenway will connect into the existing Dry Creek Parkway in Sacramento County north of McClellan/Rio Linda. It will connect to both the Sacramento Northern Bikeway and the Ueda Parkway (my "turtle ride" along the Main Drain Canal) which connect to the AR Parkway near Old Sacramento. I doubt we will ride the whole 75 miles in one day but it will provide different rides on sections of the loop. Marv Philo |