GITy Up! 2012 - A Bite-Sized Bike Camping Adventure!

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Time: July 14, 2012 to July 15, 2012
Location: Illinois Prairie Path and Fox River Trail
City/Town: Wheaton, IL (50 miler) or North Aurora, IL (16 miler family route)
Website or Map: http://trailsforillinois.org/…
Phone: 708-365-9365
Event Type: bike camping,, s24o, fundraiser, overnight tour
Organized By: Trails for Illinois
Latest Activity: Jul 1, 2012

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GITy Up! 2012 registration is open!

July 14-15, savor a bite-sized, ALL-TRAIL bike camping adventure along the historic Illinois Prairie Path and Fox River Trail.

GITy Up! is for beginning cycle tourists, for families, for expert bike campers with just a weekend free.

Beginning at High Noon in Wheaton, IL, you’ll tour a leisurely (and mostly flat) 25 miles/day, fully supported by volunteers and GITy Up! partner REI. You’ll have plenty of opportunities for visiting and exploring the quaint towns and delightful attractions of DuPage County and the Fox River Valley.

A shorter family route leaves from the Fox Valley Park District’s North Aurora Island, inviting toddler-toting, trailer pulling parents to pedal in for the fun.

You’ll dine and camp beneath the stars in your own tent & sleeping bag with the St. Charles Park District, with dinner and breakfast on us.

Don’t have special bike camping gear? Don’t worry - since we’ll transport all your gear and bags, the gear you have is good enough! (The outdoor adventure experts at REI can outfit you for GITy Up and beyond).

Limited hotel rooms in St. Charles, (and Warrenville and Aurora if you’re arriving Friday, 7/13) at special GITy Up! rates are available - see our FAQ.

Only have Sunday to spend with us? You’re covered - register for our one day option.

Cost is just $85 ($35 for single day riders). The dollars raised will be used by Trails for Illinois to promote trail-based bicycle touring and the economic impact it can have statewide. We believe that Illinois is just a handful of trail connections away from being a premier Midwest destination for trail-based tourism - and that fabulous adventures are waiting for you right now. GITy Up! is helping us showcase healthy, active, sustainable tourism opportunities in Illinois. And it will introduce the joy of overnight bicycle touring to a new group of cyclists.

Only 250 tickets are available for the overnight (and 150 for the single day option)…make that 241….

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Comment by Steve Buchtel on June 20, 2012 at 1:22pm: Reason to ride GITy Up! #3: You can choose alternative energy

Tour de France racers compete over 2000 miles on energy goop and pure electrolytes served to them in feed bags they string around their neck and eat on the fly. But even they'd be tempted to pause by the panoply of independent restauranteurs and brewmasters that pepper the GITy Up! route:

• Wheaton
• Warrenville
• North Aurora
• Batavia
• Geneva
• St. Charles
• South Elgin
• Elgin

And if you're riding the shorter, more tot-trailer friendly route from/to North Aurora, Aurora's historic Two Brothers Round House offers wonderful, family-friendly post-ride repast.

GITy Up will provide riders dinner and breakfast—that leaves a whole lot of hours free to find alternative sources of calories to fuel your fun.

We're delivering daily an awesome reason to ride GITy Up! this week through Friday. Check in tomorrow to get another darn compelling reason to click that big red button below.

Comment by Steve Buchtel on June 20, 2012 at 3:09am: Reason to ride GITy Up! #4: You can go quarry swimming

Despite—or maybe because of—Breaking Away ("Gonna wind up a bum...an Italian bum!"), you were warned about swimming in the quarries. On GITy Up!, we're encouraging you to jump in. Batavia Park District's Harold Hall Quarry Beach is the first opportunity GITy Up! riders will have to jump in the cool of a pool, this one hewn from solid rock. The second opportunity is just blocks from the campsite, at St. Charles Park District's enormous Swanson Pool. Each is just a few bucks for temperature dousing relief.

We're delivering daily an awesome reason to ride GITy Up! this week through Friday. Check in tomorrow to get another darn compelling reason to click that big red button below.

Comment by Steve Buchtel on June 18, 2012 at 1:43pm: Reason to ride GITy Up! #5: You can play golf

The St. Charles Park District’s Pottawatomie Golf Course is the 15th-best 9-hole golf course in the country according to Golf World magazine. And it’s just down the hill from our campsite. Rates are cheap!—just $15 on Saturday and Sunday.

Throw your clubs on your bike, or toss them onto our truck along with your camping gear—we’re happy to play caddy (at least to our campsite). Each day of riding on GITy Up! is relatively short so you can take the time to enjoy all the cool things along the route, like Pottawatomie Golf Course.

We’re delivering daily an awesome reason to ride GITy Up! this week through Friday. Check in tomorrow to get another darn compelling reason to click that big red button below.