Just Keep Pedaling: Lower Meramac Park Greenway -- St. Louis, MO

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Lower Meramac Park Greenway -- St. Louis, MO

For our second ride today, we checked out Lower Meramac Park Greenway that follows along the Meramac River. We parked at the I-55 trailedhead which was not well marked (read -- not marked at all, at least where you could see it from the road), but we found it. Again, a very nice wooded paved path that follows along the Meramac River (wish we had things like this where we live.......) with lots of fun curves and slight hills that gives variety and keeps the ride interesting. This was also a trail that was being heavily utilized on a mid-70 degree late July Saturday at 5:00 in the afternoon: Walkers, joggers, people with dogs and strollers and kids on bikes with training wheels, and other cyclists. Which is awesome. That means it is being used. Which is the whole point of trails like this -- and also how they get paved. Again, I reiterate, I wish we had something like this where I live. Well, we almost did, but then it all got thrown away, but that's the topic of another blog post that I might delve into at another time..... As far as the Lower Meramac path in St. Louie, one of the websites we read before our ride stated that it will flood during times of high water, and evidence of that was quite obvious at several points on the trail. Large portions of it had obviously been underwater this spring.

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Can you believe this weather! Mid 70's on the 27th of July! Unbelievable! Made for a very nice second ride of the day! We chose an easy paved trail through the woods along the Meramac River. There were several spots where if you made a miscalculation in your speed and steering that you could have ended up wet! As my Sweetie mentioned there were several parts of the trail that recently had to have the mud scrapped off after having been a submarine trail instead of a bike trail. I would ride this one again!

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