Multi-purpose trails in Edmond

[corwin1968]

I'm looking at getting back into casual bike riding but I now live in Edmond, some distance from Lake Hefner. Mitch park is close to me but I can't find out if the trails there are pedestrian-only or multi-use with bicycles allowed. Does anyone know?

[EdmondBrad]

I see bicycles there all the time. There was also one of those bike racks there last summer where you could borrow one and then return it.

[Midtowner]

Mitch is multiuse and it links up with Coffee Creek, or at least it did several years ago when I lived out that way. They've probably expanded the trails since then.

Careful out there, there's a pretty good hill in Coffee Creek where you'll be able to go way too fast then have to turn at the bottom. Had a pretty bad fall out there once.

[ImTheDude]

Mitch is multiuse and it links up with Coffee Creek, or at least it did several years ago when I lived out that way. They've probably expanded the trails since then.

Careful out there, there's a pretty good hill in Coffee Creek where you'll be able to go way too fast then have to turn at the bottom. Had a pretty bad fall out there once.

The trail also extends to Hafer Park. That hill is not even 50 yards from my house, its a butt kicker. The trail run right behind my backyard and was a big selling point for us on the house, absolutely love using it.

[corwin1968]

The trail also extends to Hafer Park. That hill is not even 50 yards from my house, its a butt kicker. The trail run right behind my backyard and was a big selling point for us on the house, absolutely love using it.

That would be awesome!! My wife and I bought a house that backs up to a greenbelt with a large pond and walking path but I would be much more likely to use a biking path.

[Midtowner]

That fall is why I am 100% sold on wearing a helmet. Fall off a bike going nearly 30MPH onto concrete and rock and you'll be sold too. I was damn lucky not to have fallen on one of those rocks.

I remember the Coffee Creek development when it was just a farm (the farmhouse is now the clubhouse). We used to buy horse manure there for our garden.

[KarNut]

Call the Bicycle Shop and ask some of them where to ride. They can tell you some good trails to try. (Probably not in Edmond.)