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Claimed.

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@KLizotte 146509 wrote:

Here is a link to the route I took yesterday via Case Bridge and picking up the trail near National’s baseball stadium.

https://ridewithgps.com/trips/11249469

Please note that I did a little detour to HUD by (7th Street by L’Enfant Plaza) so ignore that little squiggle.

Is there any problem with biking on the Riverwalk Trail through the Navy Yard? Are restrictions still in place and, if so, are they ever enforced?

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This is disappointing, although not terribly surprising – when I heard from her this Spring, the summer completion date was firm. Oh well, it’s only been 14 years since the crossing was first (to my knowledge) seriously discussed; I guess we can wait another 6 months.

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Here’s another option, which you may have considered, but which will become much easier later this Summer —

Starting from where you come out of the Holmes Run Valley Park onto Sleepy Hollow, cross Sleepy Hollow to Dearborn, proceed .4 mile to the Lakeview Causeway, and take the causeway (walking across the wood section) across the end of Lake Barcroft. From there, Lakeview Drive is not a bad ride to Columbia Pike. Cross the Pike at the light and proceed east down the service road and trail to the left side of Holmes Run, where you join the trail. With a mountain bike, the 5 fair weather crossings won’t be difficult (assuming that it hasn’t rained heavily). This will take you to the Chambliss bridge, which doesn’t exist yet but is scheduled, according to the Alexandria Transportation Planning division, to be built this summer. The route up N. Chambliss and the bike trail through the park is pleasant and the best-graded route up to Seminary. From Seminary, go through NOVA on Dawes and Campus Lane to Beauregard, then along Beuregard and S. Walter Reed (or the adjacent path) down to 4MR.

Currently, this route isn’t fun, in light of the unpleasant and hilly detour at Chambliss (see the Alexandria bike map). When the bridge is finished, however, I expect to incorporate Holmes Run in my loop rides much more often.

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