Southwest LRT Bike Party Brewery Ride!
Event Details:
Date: Sat. July 25th
Time: Meet up 11:45am – introductions and rollout at 12pm
Location: Starting Point – Tonka Cycle 416 11th Ave. S. Hopkins, MN 55343
ALL bicycles are welcome! e-bike, road bike, mountain bike, gravel bike, city bike, recumbent bike, fixie, cargo bike, trike, tandem bike, hand-bike, fat bike, TT bikes …. all trail legal bikes.
Party pace! We will be moving at 10-12 mph with stops to allow folks to catch up. We plan to have a ride lead, sweep, and a couple cross guard riders for the few roads we cross.
Schedule:Leave Tonka Cycle & Ski at noon
Steel Toe Brewing 12:30 to 1:15 | a pint or two … depending on how thirsty you are, and food truck
West River Rd at 2:15 | group photo with Grain Belt sign
Utepils Brewing at 2:45 to 3:30 | a pint or two and food truck
LTD Brewing at 4:30 | afterparty … food truck at the brewery or many amazing options all along Mainstreet
Feel free to join us for the whole route or hop on at any stop and you can hop off at any place along the route … you do you!
The route will start in Hopkins on a couple blocks on the Nine Mile Creek Trail, connecting to The Minnesota River Bluffs Trail to The Depot. Then we will ride the Cedar Lake Trail to a short section of Midtown Greenway connecting us to the Kenliworth Trail up to the North Cedar Trail taking us under Target Field to the West Mississippi River Trail.
After the photo stop, we will backtrack the North Cedar Trail to the Luce Line using the new bridge over the Linden Yard to Utepils. We will ride out on paths along Glenwood Ave and Theodore Wirth Pkwy back to the North Cedar Trail. The North Cedar Trail takes us back to Hopkins and a mile or so on roads to get us to LTD Brewing.
I would love for folks to ride to our event, but understand if folks want to drive to it. If you drive, there is a public lot across from our finish at LTD Brewing (plus lots of street parking and other public lots very close); or you can park at Tonka Cycle & Ski. I will share a post with parking details as we get closer to the ride.
Please plan to bring a lock to secure your bike at stops, every stop should be safe enough, but a lock is the best way to keep your bike there while you’re away from it.