Big Creek / Lake-to-Lake Bikeway Selfie Cycle Tour - Cleveland to Berea, OH

Smart-guided Cycle Tour ~ Cleveland, Ohio - Big Creek / Lake to Lake Bikeways

CycleNuts Selfie Tours tie together fun, interesting, scenic, historic, tasty, and refreshing points of interest along a bikeway focused tour route where you ride at your pace and your pleasure. You are the tour boss. You pick the date and time - ticket is good for any day or time - dates/times listed only as a guideline to give you an idea of how long tour normally takes.

With these smart-guided bikeway cycling adventures you bring the bike and smart phone, and CycleNuts provides the Smart Guide. The Smart Guide gives you voice and visual turn-by-turn instructions along an expertly designed and tested tour route.

Do the tour solo or bring along your crew. 1 ticket = fun for all! Easily stop anywhere along the way to visit attractions or refreshments and the Smart Guide will continue the route from wherever you are when you are ready to roll.

The Big Creek Parkway Trail has been around forever, it seems. Before rail-to-trails, before towpath trails, before the rest of the impressive Emerald Necklace trail system happened, this intercommunity bikeway came to be in the 1970s. Following the lay of the land as it wiggles between trees and across brooks through quiet suburban neighborhoods this trail is moderately level with one of my favorite coasting hills at its south end. No, the route does not return uphill on that coaster.

Next on the agenda is the newer Lake to Lake Trail which connects... two lakes. But not just regular lakes. These lakes are special - and really beautiful. "Lake Abram is the largest remaining glacial wetland in Cuyahoga County and offers a quarter mile boardwalk of scenic views of its expansive wetland". Lake Isaac is "a glacial pothole created thousands of years ago" and is an important - and really scenic - habitat for wildlife.

Round and about this Selfie Cycle Tour passes by Walter F Ehrnfelt Covered Bridge (an infamous fake covered bridge), Wallace Lake Beach (a real swimming beach), and through Berea, Ohio using the Rocky River segment of the Emerald Necklace Bikeway - another incredibly beautiful trail. This is where the optional tasty turnaround spot is located and where the tour route reconnects with bikeways for the return to the starting spot.

Comprised mostly of bikeways, the 21 mile tour route is moderately level across gently rolling terrain, except for a mild climb out of the shallow river valley. The route is 92% bikeway, and comes with CycleNuts' 50% downhill guarantee. If your bike has gears, you will probably use them to the some extent climbing out of the valley and to a lesser degree in a couple of spots along the route. All bikes are appropriate for this smart-guided tour - even a single speed bike as long as you do not mind walking your bike up the spots mentioned. Bring yours or rent one in the Cleveland area (see confirmation information for listings). Sweating is optional. The route is shaded about 75% of the way. You set your own pace, starting time and touring agenda with CycleNuts' expert smart-guided cycle tour pattern.

Points of interest: Big Creek Parkway Trail, Lake to Lake Trail, Lake Abram, Rocky River Reservation, city of Berea, Walter F Ehrnfelt Covered Bridge, Wallace Lake Beach, and Cornerstone Brewing Company, an optional midway tasty stop - CycleNuts tested and approved.

HERE'S THE PLAN: You bring the bike. CycleNuts provides the smart-tour guide! Via email you receive an expertly designed and tested tour route. Simply click on the emailed link and follow the expertly designed Selfie Tour route using your smart phone as your personal smart-tour guide for the Voice and Map guided turn-by-turn instructions.

1. From your location simply click on link 1 provided by CycleNuts (using your cell phone) and follow the Google Maps directions to the starting spot;
2. Unload your bike (if you transported it to the starting spot), or if you rode your bike to the starting spot then you are good to go;
3. and then click on link 2 provided by CycleNuts and begin the tour (for more complex tours there may also be a link 3 or 4 to click on along the way as well as additional instructions).

WHERE TO RENT A BIKE: See your ticket purchase confirmation information for local bike rental listings.

ARE YOU READY TO ROLL? GREAT... LET'S HIT THE TRAILS!

GET YOUR TICKET TODAY! - take note that the tour starting and ending times on the ticket are only a general guideline to give you an idea of how much time the tour may take at the minimum. Your time in the saddle, on the trail, and starting times are your call - it is your tour. One ticket equals fun for all! Bring as many people as you wish on your tour. Ticket purchase is for the CycleNuts Selfie Smart-guided route only. Attractions, lodgings, food, bike rental, etcetera are not included in the ticket purchase.

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