To bike from my suburb to the children's museum, one has two choices: brave the highway (uphill, narrow shoulder), or do a really long detour through calmer avenues. Well, today I found that there is in fact a somewhat hidden entrance gate to a nature preserve park, that is exactly behind the children's museum, and which lets me cut through the park.

The way through the park is a longer than the highway, and steeper, but SO MUCH MORE PLEASANT! I just hope they open that gate everyday - it does say that it has the same opening hours as the rest of the park.

Next project: see which gated communities one can use as shortcuts - most have gates closed to cars, but small openings for pedestrians.