Originally Posted by
theclipper
I just moved to Seattle a couple months ago and just started riding. I have been loving it, I would really like to try out this route but am not very familiar with the area. I live in the U-District and ride my bike about 15 miles on the B-G to my school in Kenmore. I ride about a mile up Juanita. Can anyone help me out with how would be the best way to easily do this route?
Thanks much
Here's one version of the route from the maps library at the Seattle Bicycle Touring Club (a great resource, by the way).
http://www.seattlebiketours.org/memb..._clockwise.pdf
You also can cut the loop around the lake in roughly half by cutting across the I90 bridge instead of doing the whole loop. So people talk about doing the "north loop" or the "south loop".
If you're not already familiar with bikely.com, there are lots of routes already there. There are a number of slightly different ways to do the lake, here's one:
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path...rcumnavigation
If you dig around on bikely, you'll find several different version -- there are different options on how you get through Bellevue, for example...and some people extend the lap to go all the way over to Lake Sammamish and include that in a bigger lap.