[ORRando] getting to Sandy by bike (tangentally related to the Barlow 300k)

[Michael Wolfe]

You can ignore those placards.  The springwater corridor trail was built
partially with federal transportation dollars, which means that the facility
must be open 24 hours a day.  Gresham has no power to enforce that ordnance,
and currently does not.

See:
http://bikeportland.org/2009/01/08/fhwa-says-springwater-trail-closure-decision-must-be-reversed/

When I rode out to Sandy to do the pre-ride, I rode straight out Burnside,
went south through Gresham and got on the Springwater at Gresham City Park.
I took Telford to Boring, and then just got on US 26.  The grade on 26 is a
little more gentle, the shoulder is huge, and at 5:30 in the morning there
really is almost no one else on the road.  Burnside at 4:30 was just one
huge bike path.

-Michael

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:37 PM, david parsons
<orr-orc at pell.portland.or.us>wrote:

> I'm considering riding the Barlow 300k next weekend, but it means that I
> need to wake up at ~3am to ride out to Sandy for the start (and then I
> need to ride back to Portland after I stagger back into Sandy at 1:59.59
> Sunday morning.)   My usual route out to Sandy from SE Portland is to
> take the Springwater Trail from Sellwood to Boring, then 212, Orient
> Drive, and Kelso out to Sandy.    The problem, possibly, is that Gresham
> has helpfully placarded the Springwater Trail with "CLOSED FROM DUSK TO
> DAWN" signs.
>
> Does anyone know if they're serious about this?   And, if they are, if
> there's a particularly good route out in the direction of Sandy that
> would make a good pitch-black ride alternative (Foster Road is nice, but
> laughingly shoulder-free, and a distressingly large number of my
> encounters with idiots in automobiles has occurred along that road.)
>
> -david parsons
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