RichardNoggin

Does anybody know a good way to head further north form the Fort Dent park on the Interurban trail and even head up towards the Burke G. trail? Can you connect trails from Tukwilla around to the east side of lake and up towards Bellvue? I can't seem to find any great maps on the web for these connections. Thanks, Noggin

unixpro

There's not a *great* way to do it, but you can.

The Interurban trail runs through Fort Dent up past the soccer fields. Continue on the trail as it goes up paralleling and then over the river. At the south end of the Foster Golf Links, turn right and go up on the sidewalk. Continue on that until you get to I-5. If you look, you'll see the trail taking off to the right just before the on-ramp (PAST the bus stop and the piano store). Follow this and you'll keep following the river. At one point, you'll pass under Highway 99 and make a circle turn to go over a bridge over the river to the trail on the other side. Continue on the trail, going over the river again, until the thing basically ends. This will be at an intersection where there's an off-ramp from West Marginal Way. Turn left there onto the frontage road and take that up to 14th street (it's a straight shot to get onto 14th, although I suppose technically it's a right turn) into South Park. Continue on 14th across the South Park drawbridge up to East Marginal, where it T intersects at Boeing Field. Turn left onto West Marginal and continue up to the light at Ellis. Turn right on Ellis and continue to Airport Way. Turn left on Airport and continue through Georgetown, over the railroad switching yard, through SODO, and all the way up to Royal Brougham. Turn left onto Royal Brougham and follow that all the way down to Alaskan Way. Turn right on Alaskan and follow it all the way up to the top of the waterfront where you'll find Myrtle Edwards Park. From there you should be able to get to the BG pretty easily.

Note that once you hit the intersection where the West Marginal off-ramp is, you'll be riding on streets, not trail. It's not usually a huge problem, because the streets are generally wide enough for a bike and a car, or they're multiple lanes in each direction, which means you can take the lane without having to worry too much. The railroad bridge is a bit of a bear to climb, but it's relatively short. I ride the part through South Park up to the waterfront every day and haven't had a problem except the occasional buzzing car or honker.

Once you've done it, you'll have no problem figuring it out. I've done it lots of times, and it's actually a rather pleasant ride. Fairly flat, and it parallels the river quite a bit.

King County bike maps can be found here https://www.metrokc.gov/kcdot/roads/bike/map.cfm if you want to look more closely.

RichardNoggin

Thankyou very much unixpro. I will print those directions and keep them in my pocket for referance. Just curious, I have not been on the BG trail and was wondering how far it goes and where it ends and if there is loop around the Lake Wash? Thank you again for your time in spelling out the directions so clearly for me. Noggin.

CKspeed

I grabbed this link from a previous post that you might find helpful. It's an online mashup of microsoft's live map and a couple of washington bike maps.
https://research.microsoft.com/mapcru...allery/NWBike/

unixpro

That's a good link, CKSpeed. You can also get maps and cue sheets from the Seattle Bicycle Touring Club's map library at https://www.seattlebiketours.org/members/library.html. They have a couple of different routes around the lake. The BG trail doesn't go all the way around. Getting from Bellevue to Renton can be...challenging. You should also be aware that lots of people use the BG trail, that there are places where the trail is detoured and/or under construction, and places where there is "emphasis" enforcement because the neighborhood doesn't really like bikes much. One trip around the lake is in the neighborhood of 50 miles, depending on how you do it.

CKspeed

I have been riding the CTS training series with the Cascade Bicycle Club for the past few weeks. They have some nice routes with cue sheets and maps, including an around-the-lake route.
https://cycleuniversity.com/CTS.html

octopuswithafez

Cool, I am not doing the CTS ride this Sunday but I will the following Saturday. Nice to see some bikeforum folks

BengeBoy 

RichardNoggin,

Another good place to look for routes is:
- City of Seattle Bike Map. There's a link on the Cascade Bicycle Club's website to all of the local maps.
- Also, if you go to Bikely.com there are lots (and lots and lots) of routes from other riders who have figured out how to get around Seattle.

Finally, as noted above, the Seattle Bicycle Touring Club's website has a terrific library of routes and cue sheets.

CKspeed

octopus: I'm skipping out on this Sunday's ride as well. Saturdays work better for me. The mercer island loops looks like a nice ride though.

Sorry for the off topic post.

RichardNoggin

thanks again guys for the great resources. Noggin

octopuswithafez

veloroutes.org is also a good site for routes