The past few days have been gray, cold and wet but today there was a break between storms so we packed up our windbreakers and headed to the Aliso Creek Bikeway. This is a completely paved, fairly flat, multi-use trail. The final west part of the bikeway has not been completed yet but the plan is for the last section to end in Laguna Beach to create a “mountains to sea” bike path for Orange County.
We parked at El Toro Park (Muirlands and Los Alisos in Lake Forest) and rode east towards the mountains. The entire section we rode was about 8.5 miles one-way. The bike path ends at Cook’s Corner, a very hopping biker bar. Although the bar did advertise being kid friendly, the intersection was not very cyclist friendly and I was the recipient of “the bird” from, get this, a Prius.
The bike path follows Aliso Creek through neighborhoods and along busy roads that are not ever completely disguised by the groves of eucalyptus, sycamores and willows. Closer to the mountains, the marks of ‘civilization’ lessen and the landscape changed to sages, clumps of prickly pear and red-tailed hawks.
Today was cold and windy and the ride was uphill and against the wind but I really enjoyed riding this path.
We parked at El Toro Park (Muirlands and Los Alisos in Lake Forest) and rode east towards the mountains. The entire section we rode was about 8.5 miles one-way. The bike path ends at Cook’s Corner, a very hopping biker bar. Although the bar did advertise being kid friendly, the intersection was not very cyclist friendly and I was the recipient of “the bird” from, get this, a Prius.
The bike path follows Aliso Creek through neighborhoods and along busy roads that are not ever completely disguised by the groves of eucalyptus, sycamores and willows. Closer to the mountains, the marks of ‘civilization’ lessen and the landscape changed to sages, clumps of prickly pear and red-tailed hawks.
Today was cold and windy and the ride was uphill and against the wind but I really enjoyed riding this path.
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