**CANCELLED** CTS 2024 Yellow #4: Full Lake Loop

Alert:  There is no water at the start, please fill your bottles prior to arriving.  Restrooms are limited, there are two portable restrooms in a parking lot behind the start line building.  Please allow extra time if needed.  Our first official rest stop will be Seward Park at mile 7.0.

Note:  We may have the restrooms at the Old Renton City Hall open for our use.  Ride staff will let riders know if this is the case at the ride start.

Our fourth ride takes us all the way around Lake Washington in clockwise direction.  This route is fondly called 'the full lake loop' and is roughly 50 miles with several good climbs in it.  We start from the south end of the lake at old Renton City Hall. We ride through Renton out to the Airport Perimeter Road and Rainier Ave with our first climb going up Seward Park the opposite direction we did it on ride #2.  We have our first stop at Seward Park, then we head north on Lake Washington Blvd over to the University Bridge.  From there, we ride along Burke Gillman Trail for a a good bit before we hop off and tackle a long steady climb up Sand Point Way. We drop down into the north end of the lake on Lake City Way/Bothell Way and make our second stop at Log Boom Park. We get back on the Burke Gillman Trail for another short stint, detour through the Wayne Public Golf Course gravel parking lot and start our second steady climb up Waynita way (note the detour we take onto 145th from Waynita way. We ride up and over Market Street, with a detour through DT Kirkland due to construction and then climb up 112th to the third rest stop at the Hidden Valley Boys and Girls Club. The last stretch of our ride takes us through Bellevue and along the southeast side of the lake on the new Eastrail and Lake Washington Blvd back into Renton.

This is a challenging ride that will bring you a great sense of accomplishment, take note of how you feel at the end.  We repeat this route as our last ride of the series and you will be amazed at how much easier it will be the second time around!

Ride cancellation if needed will be sent out from Cascade Bicycle Club as an email.  Before ride cancellation if needed, will occur no later than two hours before the ride.  Ride cancellation in some cases may only happen at the ride start location and time.