Cycling at the Lakes and Trails Festival

The Lakes and Trails Festival is held annually in Sydenham Ontario.  It celebrates the areas natural beauty, active lifestyle and history.

Cycling events include:

The Around the Lake Bike.  Bike around Sydenham Lake on off-road trails and on quiet, low-speed, paved rural roads. The 21-kilometre loop leaves the Point Park at 10:30, the 34K loop leaves at 10:00, and the 44K loop leaves at 9:30.

The Family Bike.  An 8-kilometre trip out and back on the Cataraqui Trail beside Sydenham Lake.

The Cycle Skills Competition.  Suitable for cyclists from training wheels to advanced.  The Paper Route, the Zig Zag and the Slow Bike events will be scored and a leader board will be kept through the morning.  Prizes will be awarded to the winners by event and age.

Yellow Bikes will help with bicycle maintenance.  Helmet fitting and safety instruction will be available.  All cyclist will be given bells and lights.

Other events include paddling on the lake, a community lunch, historic village walk, swimming and Music-on-Mill Street in the afternoon.

Registration begins at 9:30 in Sydenham’s Point Park and the music ends at 4.  Come any time.

 

Around the Lake Bike Routes

The Around the Lake Bike trips will all start from the Point Park at 10:30.  There will be a leader for each of the three loops: 21K, 32K and 44K.  All loops do the first 18 K together and then diverge.  About 70% of the trips are on the Cataraqui Trail and the K+P Trail.  Paved,  low-speed, low-volume country roads make up the rest with one 200 meter stretch on a paved shoulder of Sydenham Road, and 80k/hr arterial road.  There are a few gentle hills but the routes are primarily flat. The routes can be viewed at: Lakes_Trails Festival-Around the Lake (2)