{"id":2266,"date":"2015-07-29T10:06:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T17:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2015-08-25T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:21:46","slug":"biking-in-se-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/2015\/07\/29\/biking-in-se-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Biking in SE Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the best things about living at Reed isn\u2019t even on campus! \u00a0Living in the middle of SE Portland means excellent access to bike paths and bike friendly streets taking you to downtown, Mt. Tabor, Sellwood and more! \u00a0Here is one of my favorite rides starting from Reed. \u00a0It\u2019s \u00a0under 10 miles round trip, so it\u2019s accessible to almost any skill level of biker, but it will still manage to give you a great sense of the city of Portland.<\/p>\n

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Downtown\/Steel Bridge<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This one\u2019s a classic<\/em>. \u00a0It\u2019s a great way to see the Willamette and explore the west side of town all while staying on a beautiful and spacious bike path. \u00a0First, you leave campus heading towards the 7-Eleven. \u00a0Then, making your way up 26th, turn left on Gladstone. \u00a0This street winds around and somehow turns into 21st, which you use to cross Powell. \u00a0Now here\u2019s where things get fun. \u00a0First, the People\u2019s Food Co-op will be on your left, with a sweet juice bar\/food cart out front called Sip. \u00a0Try the Maca Madness if you ever get a chance!<\/p>\n

Urban Foraging Pro Tip # 1<\/strong>: In the summer, there are two plentiful plum trees a block past People\u2019s. \u00a0(They\u2019re okay to eat because they\u2019re on the sidewalk, so it\u2019s not stealing, I looked it up!) One of them has yellow plums the other purple. \u00a0I\u2019ve only had the yellow ones so far. \u00a0They\u2019re amazing.<\/p>\n

Once you\u2019re done feasting on plums, continue to Divison St. \u00a0Here you\u2019re going to take the diagonal street: Ladd. \u00a0It\u2019s an awesome<\/em> neighborhood for biking. \u00a0It\u2019s beautiful, you can take up the whole road, and on morning commutes you\u2019ll sometimes see twenty or so cyclists in a line all going to work. \u00a0Take this through Ladd Circle and right before you hit Hawthorne and the Hawthorne food carts (home of the famous PB&J fries) head left on Clay. \u00a0There\u2019s a small bike lane for you to turn through, no cars allowed! \u00a0This will take you all the way down to the river. \u00a0Once on the river, you head north along the bike path to the Steel Bridge. \u00a0Along the way you will ride on a floating bike path, where you can see great sunsets and a silhouette of downtown (Fig. 2.)<\/p>\n

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Cross the Willamette along the Steel Bridge, it\u2019s pretty obvious which bridge this is. \u00a0It\u2019s very much made of Steel. \u00a0Now you\u2019re downtown! So fast and easy! From here you can do anything, everything downtown Portland is very close, and if you don\u2019t feel comfortable riding anywhere in the city, you can just hop onto the MAX with your bike. \u00a0This can take you to Washington Park and the Zoo, and all kinds of food carts, among other things. \u00a0To get back to Reed, you can cross the Hawthorne bridge, head south on the bike path until you get to the new MAX line, and ride along Tilikum Way (brand new MAX line, just in time for the school ) up to Clinton. \u00a0This is a very relaxing street to cruise on. \u00a0It takes you back to 21st, and from there you should know the way back by now. \u00a0Urban Foraging Pro Tip #2<\/strong>: Don\u2019t forget to eat some plums on your way back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the best things about living at Reed isn\u2019t even on campus! \u00a0Living in the middle of SE Portland means excellent access to bike paths and bike friendly streets taking you to downtown, Mt. Tabor, Sellwood and more! \u00a0Here … finish reading Biking in SE Portland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,87,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-get-off-campus","category-just-for-fun","category-portland-life","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}