Historic Bike Tour October 3rd with White Pine Touring

Historic Bike Tour October 3rd with White Pine Touring

Join Karri Dell Hays with White Pine Touring and the Park City Museum for a fun, historic bike tour!  The tour is mostly downhill using comfort/Townie bikes. We will leave at 10AM from White Pine Touring located at 1790 Bonanza Drive (9:30 at Silver Lake Lodge drop off area.  Please arrive at least 30 minutes in advance at White Pine to fill out waivers and help load your bike. You may park at White Pine and bring your own bike or rent one from White Pine for 1/2 price: $15 for a half day and $20 for a full day. If you’re bringing your own bike, Mountain bikes are fine but we will be on some dirt trails so road bikes are not recommended. We will have room for 15 participants who start from White Pine. Other participants will need to meet at the Silver Lake Lodge drop off area. No shuttle will be provided back to Silver Lake. All bikes for participants starting from White Pine will be loaded on to a trailer and participants will ride in a van to Silver Lake/Upper Deer Valley.  Topics of discussion will include: early beginnings of Park City, Silver Lake, McHenry’s, Ontario, Snow Park, Silver King, Daly Canyon Mines, Silver King, the Ontario Mill, Old Town via Park Avenue to Main Street. We will finish the tour at the Rotary Park where we will eat our lunches. Please bring your own helmet (if you have one. White Pine provides them with bike rental), a water bottle, sunglasses, sunscreen, lunch, and comfortable athletic attire. Please, no sandals.

To sign-up for the bike tour, please contact Diane Knispel education@parkcityhistory.org.  Please note that there is a limit of 15 people.  You need to be a member in order to sign-up for the bike tour.  If you are not a member, and you would like to go, please sign-up as a member on our website.  If you sign-up and then decide you can’t go, please notify Diane ASAP.  Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.