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Your Bicycle: Core Skills for Women and Girls

Your Bicycle: Core Skills for Women and Girls will be held from noon to 4pm in Traverse City on September 6th. Learn the names of bike parts and understand how they work together and how to fit a bike to your body and legs. We will also teach you what to look for when [...]

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Leelanau Harvest Tour celebrates 25th Anniversary

The Cherry Capital Cycling Club is hosting the Leelanau Harvest Tour on Sunday, September 21, an annual bicycle road ride through scenic Leelanau County. Just shy of 1000 riders (families and individuals) participated in this noncompetitive event last year.
The Leelanau Harvest Tour celebrates it's 25th anniversary this year. To honor the milestone, a bluegrass [...]

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Nominations sought for Mudgett Award

TART Trails is seeking nominations for the fifth annual Jim Mudgett Trail Pioneer Award.
Tim Brick won the award in 2007. Nominations are open to anyone who has advocated for building, maintaining and using trails in the Grand Traverse area.
Send submissions in writing to TART Trails, PO Box 252, Traverse City, MI 49685, stating the reasons [...]

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Tour de TART a Big Success!

Thanks to those of you who attended our Tour de TART bike ride, 2008. We had 430 participants, beautiful weather, a great band and a lot of smiling faces. We look forward to seeing you for Tour de TART 2009!

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Tour de TART is right around the corner!

Our signature event, Tour de TART, is right around the corner. Hit the trails for an evening ride to Suttons Bay! Now in its 8th year, the family-friendly one-way bike ride on the TART and Leelanau trails from Traverse City to Suttons Bay, will take place Friday, Aug 8. Celebrate this rural trail corridor connecting [...]

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Smart Commute to the Traverse City Film Festival!

Don’t forget to Smart Commute (bike, walk, carpool and take the bus) to the Traverse City Film Festival. Special film festival BATA buses will be running. Check the festival bus schedule at http://www.traversecityfilmfest.org/festival/?page=map.
Also, extra bike racks are being brought in for the Open Space, State Theater, City Opera House, Old Town Playhouse and Lars Hockstad [...]

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Using the TART Trail to the Reffitt Nature Preserve

If you bike on the stretch of the TART Trail from the library on Woodmere to Acme, do you know that you pass the 83-acre Reffitt Nature Preserve along the south side of the trail? Why not park your bike at the entry on Three Mile and Parsons Road and then take a refreshing 1.5-mile [...]

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August 5th Work Bee on Leelanau Trail

Traverse Area Recreation and Transportation (TART) Trails, Inc. is hosting a trail work bee on the Leelanau Trail at Shady Lane Road on Tuesday August 5 from 4:00-7:00 p.m., to mulch some newly planted trees and shrubs. Volunteers will be spreading woodchips to mulch around the 1000 seedlings that were planted along the Leelanau Trail [...]

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Volunteers needed to hang posters for Tour de TART

We need volunteers to help us distribute posters around the region for our Tour de TART event. (Distribute posters by July 29 at the latest) Volunteers are needed to come to the TART office, pick up posters and event brochures and distribute them to the following areas:
4 people needed to hang posters in downtown TC: [...]

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New Shoulders on US-31 just in time for the Ride Around Torch

Shoulders were added to the US-31 corridor just in time for the Cherry Capital Cycling Club's (CCCC) annual RAT (Ride around Torch) that occurred Sunday, July 20. One of the busy road segments of the ride is much improved this year. The Michigan Department of Transportation completed the construction of 8-foot wide shoulders along US-31 [...]

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