{"id":1175,"date":"2011-10-14T14:51:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T21:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2011-10-15T16:32:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T23:32:18","slug":"cana-bike-club-goes-the-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"CANA Bike Club Goes the Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday October 8th The CANA bike club rode 24 miles from Austin to Wheaton on the Illinois Prairie Path.<\/a><\/p>\n

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This scenic\u00a0ride used the wonderful Prairie Path which starts in Maywood and goes through several communities between here and Wheaton with additional spurs to points west like Fermi Lab and Fox River. <\/a>The path is for the most part a converted rail road track paved over\u00a0that minimizes contact with cars except to cross\u00a0 a few village streets.\u00a0 This rails to trails program example is one of Chicago’s best kept secrets. On our ride we stopped at\u00a0a railway museum and a festival along the path, watched a few minutes of college football at the Wheaton College Stadium next to the path, \u00a0had lunch in Wheaton and loaded our bikes on the Metra Train for a different kind of ride back to Oak Park. The weather was perfect!\u00a0 Please enjoy some of the scenes along the way below:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Hope to see you at our\u00a0next ride!<\/p>\n