BABES ON BIKES RIDE
Updated last:  Dec. 10, 2000
Ride:        Joan's Arlington North
Start:       Bluemont Junction Park
Distance: 16.5 miles

 

L = Left
R = Right
S = Straight on
X = Cross
Start   Bluemont Junction Park pkg lot off of Wilson and Manchester
L  on 4 Mile Run Trail under Wilson Blvd. (becomes W&OD)  to Great Falls St. 
R on Great Falls Street
Immediate left  onto Lincoln Ave
X West St
Lincoln turns sharp right & becomes Sycamore
L  on Highland
R  on Haycock Rd
L  on Great Falls St
Go to top of right-hand column
X Kirby
R  on Lemon Rd
L on Rupert 
R on Southridge
L on Westmoreland
R  on Felix St.
R  on Broyhill St.
L  on Macon St.
R  on Old Chesterbrook Rd
S  on Old Chesterbrook Rd for a long time
X  Kirby and jog left, road changes to Park Dr.
Continue to left side bottom half of page
 
R  on Vermont (just before you get to Old Dominion Drive)
L  onto Valley Wood.  X Old Dominion and it is called Franklin Park Rd.
S  on Franklin Park Rd (winding road)
At Atoga Ave. turn R on 38th Street.  School on right, up ahead.
R on Albemarle
R  on Delaware St.  (going around school)
L  on 36th St.
X  Williamsburg Blvd
X  Glebe Rd
L  on Dittmar-- continue winding around to the left until you see the church at top of hill
R  on Old Glebe Road
R  on Military Road
 R onto path in Zachary Taylor park at bottom of 2nd hill, after 31st St.  Go over bridge (hard gravel path at first, but then turns to pavement and crosses a couple roads).  End up at top of (killer) hill near Marymount College
Go to bottom right hand side of page.

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Several choices from this point:
Alternative:  Bagel Bakery or Bluemont
L  on 26th St.
R  onto Yorktown Blvd  (under Glebe Rd).
L  on N. George Mason Drive
R  on Patrick Henry
If going to Bagel Bakery, go R  on Harrison St.  Otherwise stay on Patrick Henry.
X Washington Blvd.
X over Rt. 66 then immediate R  onto bike trail
Eventually jog left and go R onto 4 Mile Run path.
R  into pkg lot of Bluemont Junction Park
Alternative:  Lyon Village
L  on 26th St.
L  on Old Dominion
L  on Lorcom Lane
R  on bike path just before Rt 66 to get to Lyon Village Starbucks.
Another alternative:   Take 26th Street across Old Dominion and Glebe and wind through back streets to get on the Custis trail at Glebe Rd & Rt 66.