Best Of Tucson®
Best Bike Riding
Rillito River Park Trail
Readers Pick
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- Tricia McInroy
- Rillito River Park Trail
You're flying down the two-lane asphalt like a rocket-fueled ultralight, stopping for nothing and no one as you swoosh down the underpass beneath the evil highway, unfettered by the Hummers and hatchbacks above. You swerve to leave some space for occasional pedestrians, as well as the zebra-tailed and collared lizards and round-tailed squirrels that skitter and dart among the native vegetation. Down in the riverbed, you see a coyote nosing his way among the shopping carts and flood debris in the late afternoon light, while a raptor perches on a light pole high above. You pedal to the path's end at the train tracks, where you greedily suck icy water as a freight thunders by. Don't get no bettah.
Runners up:
2. Fantasy Island www.savefantasyisland.org
3. Saguaro National Park www.nps.gov/sagu/
Previously in Best Of Tucson®
- 2010 Best Bike Riding - Rillito River Park Trail
- 2009 Best Bike Riding - Rillito River Park Trail
- 2008 Best Bike Riding - Rillito River Park Trail
- 2007 Best Bike Riding - Rillito River Park Trail
- 2006 Best Bike Riding - Rillito River Park Trail
- 2004 Best Bike Riding - Rillito River Trail
- 2003 Best Bike Riding - Rillito River Trail
- 2002 Best Bike Riding - Rillito Linear Park
- 2001 Best Bike Riding - Third Street
- 2001 Best Bike Riding - Third Street
- 2000 Best Bike Riding - Rillito Linear Park
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