shona

Thank you forum friends for steering us to Traverse City, Michigan for cycling. It was fantastic. We rode Old Mission Peninsula and Torch Lake. Old Mission Peninsula was by far our favorite. Beautiful scenery, great roads and friendly drivers. THANK YOU

bonz50

i was just researching this a bit earlier today (got cut off with work responsibilities)... can you post some of your routes and etc?? accommodations??

Thx!!

shona

We used a paper map created by the Cherry Capital Cycling Club (https://www.michiweb.com/cycling/index.html). You can purchase the map for $7 from either McLain Cycle (https://mclaincycle.com/) or Brick Wheels (https://www.brickwheels.com/). Sorry, I don't have the routes downloaded but maybe somebody else will post something.

SilverStretch

Shona -

Great to hear you had fun.

Were you there for the weekend of the RAT (Ride Around Torch) ride (7/17)? I guess they had over 1000 riders this year. The past few weekends have been pretty hot up there (by Michigan standards, temps in the 90s), but you must have found ways to deal with it...! I will be going back up there next week to present at a conference and I plan on hauling the bike up...

shona

We were there for the Ride Around the Torch and planned to ride it but we discovered the night before that BOTH of our bikes were malfunctioning and needed to go into the shop. The ride was on a Sunday and the shop didn't open until 11:00 a.m. so we missed the ride. So we did it a couple of days later. I felt like the Old Mission Peninsula ride was prettier - it is much less populated so you ride by the water much of the time and in the center of the peninsula are great rolling hills through the cherry orchards. The area around Torch Lake is so heavily populated with houses and people that you cannot appreciate the water view so much and the traffic was heavier. It was also a great ride though.
We were there for a week during their heat wave but we live in San Antonio so it was nothing to us. The weather was a pleasure!

brian416

It's too bad your bikes were malfunctions for the RAT, it was pretty cool with sooo many riders on the road, but it brutally hot for us northerners.

EventServices

I was disappointed with RAT this year. To run out of water at a rest stop is inexcusable on a +90-degree day. And one of their SAG cars buzzed us closer than what a redneck would do.

But the area up there is one of the best riding spots in the country. Boyne, Old Mission, Leelanau, and on up to Cross Village is one of the best kept secrets.

OldsCOOL

Glad you had a good time in the TC area. I'm not too far north of there (Boyne City). Cycling is quite resurgent here the past 10-15yrs.