Healthy Communities of Clinton County Coalition unveiled one of three new county bike routes as nearly 20 riders took an 11-mile bike ride on the route in Kirklin Saturday.
“This was our big kickoff event as now have the signs in now for all six bike routes,” said Healthy Communities Director of Operations Lorra Archibald.”There are three in the county and three in the city of Frankfort. This is the first one we have the signs up for and we wanted to do something with the Octoberfest here in Kirklin.”
Archibald said they are not sure which route will next for them to dedicate.
“If we don’t get anymore big events in for each route this fall, we will start those in the spring,” said Archibald. “We will probably do it on a Saturday morning and get people used to riding the routes in our county.”
Besides Kirklin, which is officially 11.07 miles, the other two county routes are the Colfax-Manson Loop, which measures 13.50 miles and the Frankfort Library Past Clinton Prairie, which is 17.90 miles. The three routes in the city of Frankfort are Library Maish Loop (3.71 miles), YMCA Past TPA Park and Back (5.57 miles) and Green Blue (3 miles).
You can find these and other routes at www.healthyclintoncounty.org.