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Ankeny Wildlife Refuge

  • Start date: 10/18/2020

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 10/18/2020

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Leave from Eugene at 8:30 AM Limited to 8 riders and 4 cars. We'll begin by riding the paths around the Ankeny Wildlife Refuge. Then stopping in Independence for lunch(that you pack) and return to the Refuge via the ferry crossing the Willamette River(cost $1 for each person/bike).Make sure your bike is healthy. Have a spare tube, pump, helmet, rain gear, layers, water. You will receive directions to the meeting place by Saturday.

  • Event Leader: Richard Hughes

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-579-3098

  • Event Leader Email: hughes97405@gmail.com

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type:

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Easy

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2020

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: (see above)

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 27

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 700

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is developing a new facility at the Overlook in the Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge.
The new Nature Center will have an indoor classroom, a covered outdoor learning space, restrooms as well as parking. Normally when riders cycle this area, they park at this location. Currently the area is closed and under construction and scheduled to be completed this Fall. With all that said we parked at the Buena Vista Ferry Landing. We rode from there circling the refuge crossing the Willamette River and then into the City of Independence were we had lunch in the city park. After food and drink we meandered on the other side of the river to the ferry returning to our vehicles.