Biking in Omaha, NE

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I will be in Omaha, NE 8/16 - 8/18 and am taking my road bike. Does anyone have any hints on where to ride? Will be staying in the downtown area.

Thanks

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What type of ride are you looking for? Omaha has over sixty miles of bike trails that re pretty good if you want long and flat, I use them often. I don’t know downtown very well but there are a couple of routes out west that I use pretty regularly. I’ll see if I can post a link to a map of the trail system.

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Just need someplace I can get in a couple of hours without getting run over. Long and flat is fine.

Thanks

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Here is a link to the trail system in Omaha.

http://www.papionrd.org/pdfs/trails_05.pdf

The link is a pain to print so unless you have a great printer, I would plan your route while you are looking at your PC.

Here are a couple of suggestions:

From downtown get on I-80 west and take it to hwy 75 (South kennedy freeway) like you are going to Bellevue, because you are. Take that to hwy 370 it’ll take a good 15-20 minutes. Go west on 370 and start looking for good places to park because you are close to the trail head. I’ve never started from here so I don’t have any good parking tips. From here either pick up the trail and take the options you see on the map, or just ride hwy 370. 370 is a good riding hwy with a wide shoulder and some hills. take it west and out and back will give you a good long ride.

Have fun,

Marty