Yesterday a large group of cyclists/urban explorers joined The City Club, Bike Cleveland, Ohio City Bicycle Co-op and Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative for a "Ride and Learn" that served as a prelude to a riverfront development forum at Merwin's Wharf later that evening. Ride and Learn cyclists were blessed with: 1) clear skies between two rain fronts and 2) the timely passing of the freighter Buffalo as it travelled down the Cuyahoga River out to Lake Erie. Participants in the first Burning River Ramble will be very familiar with parts of the route:

Riders started between Merwin's Wharf and the Cleveland Rowing Foundation
Headed out along the west bank of the Flats to the Willow Ave. Lift Bridge
Returned along the northern end of the Cleveland Foundation Centennial Lake Link Trail
Passed through Irishtown Bend
Connected back to the southern leg of the Centennial Lake Link Trail on Carter Rd.
Traveled up the new portion of the Towpath Trail routing under the I-90 Innerbelt Bridge to the spectacular overlook by Sokolowski's University Inn
Took a short loop through Scranton Flats before returning to Merwin's Wharf

Ride and Learn Photographs

Forum attendees then enjoyed a feast at Merwin's Wharf (sausage, pierogi, GREEN salad, yum!) followed by a riverfront development conversation with the City Club's Dan Moulthrop, The Plain Dealer's architecture and urban landscape beat writer Steve Litt, Land Studio's Tiffany Graham and Cleveland Metroparks' Brian Zimmerman. You can listen to The City Club podcast (54 minutes) of the riverfront development discussion here! https://s3.amazonaws.com/cityclub-prod/production/pc/podcasts/RideandLearnMerwins8.22.17.wav?1503499996

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