Fred’s Clarkstown & Town Lake Ride

This is a nice little ride of just under 10 miles that shows a fair part of downtown Austin. Beginning in the Randalls grocery store parking lot, you experience a slow climb through Tarrytown and then descend to Mopac, crossing under the freeway and then up to 34th Street where you cross both Lamar and Guadalupe, riding through old neighborhoods of faculty and students before coming south on Speedway through the UT campus. Experience the discrimination against bicycles (in favor of pedestrians) with the dismount area, ride around the capitol and down Congress Avenue where you will cross Town Lake not once, but twice on first a full traffic bridge and then a bike/ped bridge and experience one of Austin’s most visually interesting (on warm, sunny days) multi-use paths as you head back to the starting point.

Begin this ride in the parking lot of Randalls on Lake Austin Blvd at Exposition.

Gmap: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=773330

Cue Sheet:
0.6 Cross Enfield.

1.0 Cross Windsor Rd.

1.5 RT onto Westover Rd.

1.9 Cross under Mopac.

2.0 Cross Mopac access road and bear slight right onto Norwood.

2.1 Left on Jefferson

2.2 RT onto W. 29th St.

2.3 LT onto Kerbey Lane

2.7 RT onto W. 34th St.

2.8 Yield to merging W. 35th St. traffic and continue on W. 34th St.

3.05 Cross Medical Parkway.

3.1 Cross Lamar Blvd.

3.45 Cross Guadalupe.

3.57 RT onto Hemphill Park.

3.7 Cross W. 32nd St.

3.88 LT onto W. 30th St.

4.07 Cross University Ave.

4.19 RT onto Speedway.

4.45 Cross Dean Keeton St. and enter the restricted “no car” portion of Speedway.

4.69 Observe the “Walk Bikes” zone if it is a weekday and proceed south on Speedway.

4.87 Cross E. 21st St.

5.05 Negotiate the new Blanton Art Museum and grounds which block your path to the old intersection where Speedway used to become Congress Ave. at Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

5.07 Cross MLK Jr. Blvd. and pass the Bullock Museum. Continue on Congress Ave.

5.34 Cross 15th St. and proceed onto the Capitol grounds.

5.46 Bear right, around the Capitol bldg.

5.61 At the front of the building, continue south to the front gate.

5.72 Cross 11th St. and continue south on Congress.

6.4 Cross Cesar Chavez and the bridge across Town Lake

6.7 RT onto Barton Springs Rd.

6.86 RT onto W. Riverside Dr.

6.94 Cross S. 1st. St.

7.2 Negotiate the roundabout and continue on Riverside.

7.5 Right turn onto Pfluger bike/ped bridge. Stop in the middle, sit on a bench for awhile and enjoy the sights before descending on the north end of the bridge.

7.7 Go West on the Town Lake Hike & Bike Trail. Follow the trail to the Mopac bike/ped bridge under Mopac.

8.78 RT to crossing of Stephen F. Austin Dr. and go West on Stephen F. Austin Drive.

8.86 SFA Dr. becomes Veterans Dr. Continue West, curving right and going up hill.

9.01 LT onto Lake Austin Blvd.

9.43 RT onto Newman Dr., crossing W. 7th.

9.49 LT into Randalls parking lot.

9.5 You are back where you started.

Bob's Spring Evening Ride to Parks and Coffee

Starting at the Riverside connection to the Pfluger Bridge, this little south side number is sure to please, first with a lovely detour under the covered patio around Palmer Auditorium and then with some tasty South Congress goodness. After you’re amped up on caffeine, why not do a couple laps on 6th Street? Returning via the West Ave connection to the Shoal Creek Trail and Town Lake Trail to the Pfluger Bridge where we started.

Begin this 9-mile ride at the South end of the Pfluger Bridge at Riverside & Lamar.

GMap: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=776578

Cue Sheet:
0.0 South side of Pfluger Bridge, go East on Riverside

0.3 RT into circle drive of Palmer Auditorium. Check out the Fountain

0.4 Continue along covered outdoor patio west side of Palmer

0.7 Cross Barton Springs Rd at Bouldin – South on Bouldin.

1.3 LT at Jewell and RT on S 3rd

1.9 Cross Oltorf at S 3rd

2.1 Enter Church complex, make your way ahead until the parking lot turns onto Juanita St

2.2 LT (south) on S 5th Check out South Austin Park!

2.4 LT on Cumberland

2.6 LT on S 1st Check Out Gillis Park!

2.9 Cross Oltorf

3.2 RT on Live Oak

3.3 LT on Wilson St

3.4 RT on Johanna St.

3.6 LT (north) on Congress

3.9 Stop Somewhere for Refreshments!

4.5 Cross Riverside and

4.9 RT at Cesar Chavez

5.3 LT on Trinity

5.8 LT on 6th

6.4 RT on Lavaca

6.5 RT on 7th

7.0 RT on Red River

7.1 RT on 6th

8.0 LT on West

8.1 Cross 5th continue beyond Rail Yard Condos into old Rail yard

8.3 Veer Left toward Shoal Creek, RT onto Shoal Creek Trail, (south)

8.5 RT onto Hike & Bike Trail

8.7 Up onto Pfluger Bridge and South to starting point. Wasn't that fun?