Wilmot to Redmond Town Center for Coffee

Join us for a ride from Wilmot Gateway Park in Woodinville on a 18+ mile route at a Steady pace (12-14 mph)!  This is a fairly flat route with one hill (Education Hill) using bike trails, bike lanes, and largely quiet neighborhood streets for most of the route. 

Now that our Pacific Northwest Summer has finally arrived (as opposed to the Saharan summer earlier!), it's time to start (or continue) your summer recreational riding! This week we will add a hill to our route to help justify that pastry you may want at our coffee/snack/water/restroom stop in Redmond Town Center.  Leaving from Wilmot Gateway Park, we'll head south towards 124th where we will leave the trail to start our climb up Education Hill.  There are many routes up this hill but we have chosen one of the more "gentle" routes.  After climbing through multiple quiet neighborhood streets, we will take a short detour to visit the site of a Nike Missile Control Site which was used as part of the defense ring around greater Seattle from the 1950's to the 1970's!  Interestingly the Nike missiles themselves were located in the valley below toward Perrigo Park [https://www.historylink.org/file/9711 ]   We will have a swooping descent down Education Hill into Redmond where we will have our coffee/snack stop by the fountain in Redmond Town Center (circa 25 minutes).  We'll return on the flat via a combination of Bear Creek Trail, PSE Trail, and Sammamish River Trail.  

Let's meet at the Wilmot Gateway Park by the Pergolas in the park at 0915 for our pre-ride safety briefing, with a departure at 0930.

We will climb and descend our major hill at our own pace and our goal will be to regroup frequently - this is a social ride after all!  Faster riders are welcome but for them the ride becomes self-paced.   We'll also limit our speed on any multi-use paths to the legal maximum (usually 15 MPH). 

Restrooms are available at the start. We’ll stop for coffee/snacks/restrooms/water at Redmond Town Center  at mile 10.6. (Please bring funds appropriate for your needs if you wish to purchase coffee or snacks)

Bring a spare tube and tools to fix a flat, just in case. Please have full fenders if the roads are wet, or you may be asked to ride at the rear of the group.

Note: If weather conditions meet the weather cancellation criterion listed above or if there are unforeseen hazardous riding conditions or other unexpected events, the Ride Leader will post a ride-canceled note in the Comments section below at least two hours prior to the start and Ride Leader(s) will not be at the start location.

We hope you can join us!