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Traverse City - Acme TART Trail East to Bates Road

A very easy 22 mile loop from downtown Traverse City east towards Elk Rapids following the extent of the TART Trail System Eastbound.


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Author: LostGears
Date: 24 Mar 2009 5:44:56 PM
Activity: Bicycling
State: Michigan (MI)
Distance: 22.73 mi  (Change units)
Calories: 1334
Average Speed: 13.4 mph
0:04:29/mi
Duration: Total: 1:48:49
Active: 1:41:55
Resting: 0:06:53
Elevation: Total Gain: 1131 ft
Total Loss: 1135 ft
Net Change: -4 ft
Difficulty: 5 / 10
Tags: Traverse City, Michigan, Northwest, TART, Trail, Bates, Road, M72, M-72, easy, Michigan, Traverse City
Rating: Unrated   Rate it

 This was our first excursion on the TART trail this year.  We could just make it by most of the usual snow piles remaining in the shady parts of the trail and on the bridges.  A lot of debris on the trail and on the roads.

NOTICE:  This route while mostly on the trail, also uses highly traffic laden roads.  BE CAREFUL.  It crosses M72 at a bad spot.  Cars are moving fast and are not looking for you in several crossing areas.  

TO TRAILHEAD: Started from Gary Howe's house on Lincoln Ave near Rose Street.

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TART Trail Eastbound Loop

Dist: 22.73 mi Points: 2096 Calories: 1334
Time: 1:48:49 Speed: 13.4 mph Pace: 4:29 / mi
A 22 mile loop from downtown TC out to Bates Road. We started at Gary's house on Lincoln Ave.

Points of Interest

TART Trail Parsons and Hastings

Location: 44.754840°, -85.592423°
We entered the TART Trail at Hastings.

View of East Bay

Location: 44.755694°, -85.518780°
Always nice views of East Bay here.

TART unprotected here.

Location: 44.759777°, -85.513887°
This is another danger zone as the trail simply hugs the shoulder of the road with no curb, or other boundaries. Also includes a confusing Rail crossing.

Bunker Hill

Location: 44.762824°, -85.503244°
Nice Climb for us fixies going out, and zoom zoom coming home. TART is missing for a few miles starting here.

Lautner Road

Location: 44.758985°, -85.474234°

Rejoin TART Trail here.

Location: 44.764774°, -85.475006°
Nice long straight away here.

M-72

Location: 44.772270°, -85.445566°
Nasty intersection here. Pavement of TART ends about 20 meters from M-72 making it difficult to pick your way through and have any kind of acceleration ability left for crossing this dangerous road. This needs to be fixed soon!

Turn around at Bates and Bracket

Location: 44.787318°, -85.444365°



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