Biking the Twin Cities: Trails That Connect Everything: the places
15 places from this post, mapped as a trip.
- AttractionMansions and lagoons on the quietest of the chain's bike loops
- AttractionThe big lake — sailboats, beaches, and the busiest loop
- AttractionBandshell, rose garden, and the chain's most charming mile
- Food & drinkLakeside pavilion kitchen — breakfast sandwiches and cheese curds
- Attraction5.5-mile grade-separated bike freeway in an old rail trench
- Food & drinkImmigrant-owned food counters two minutes off the Greenway
- AttractionThe 1883 rail bridge turned bike promenade — freshly restored
- Food & drinkDestination beer hall sitting directly on the trail network
- AttractionA 53-foot waterfall inside city limits
- Food & drinkSeasonal seafood counter a hundred meters from the falls
- Food & drinkBike shop and espresso bar under one roof — flats fixed, cortados pulled
- AttractionWhere the gorge trail ends and the creek meets the Mississippi
- Attraction4.5 miles of Victorian mansion row by bike lane — Fitzgerald wrote at No. 599
- AttractionLake loop, conservatory, and zoo — the easy family add-on
- Attraction18 car-free rail-trail miles from downtown toward Stillwater