On Saturday October 31st raise money for the Pennsylvania
East Coast Greenway
by taking a bike tour of the proposed East Coast Greenway route from
Center City to Southwest Philadelphia with bicycle trail planning
expert Bob Thomas! Bicycle tour leaves from the Walnut Street Bridge
area of the Schuylkill Banks trail to Bartram’s Garden, then to John
Heinz National Wildlife Refuge and on to the mouth of the tidal
Schuylkill at
Fort Mifflin.
At
Fort Mifflin, lunch will be provided, as well as a guided tour of this
important Revolutionary War site. From Fort Mifflin, bicycles will be
trucked back to the Walnut Street Bridge area while participants take a
rarely offered two hour voyage up the tidal Schuylkill. Representatives
from Schuylkill River Development Corporation (SRDC) will be on hand to
discuss the vision for the continuing revitalization of the tidal
Schuylkill based around the construction of a continuous greenway
stretching from the Philadelphia Museum of Art all the way down to Fort
Mifflin.
The Bicycle tour departs from Walnut Street Bridge area
at 9:00am, riverboat returns to Walnut Street Bridge dock at approx.
4:00pm
Tickets Are $100 and are available
here.
https://www.tix.com/Event.asp?..Event=219718
http://blog.bicyclecoalition...org/2009/10/bike-and-boat-..adventure-on-schuylkill.html