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<\/a><\/p>\nFurther south, past the Pike, one can cross a bridge into the eastern end of Springfield, which I did.\u00a0 I then headed a little further east into Wilbraham, and then went south.\u00a0 I came to this golf course with a nice view at one point:<\/p>\n They had this sign there, the likes of which I’ve never seen before:<\/p>\n (as I don’t play golf, though, it’s possible that lots of courses have such a sign)<\/p>\n From Wilbraham I angle to the southwest and headed to the town center of E. Longmeadow.\u00a0 It has a 7-point intersection: that is, there are 7 input\/outputs in one spot.\u00a0 Here are a couple of views of that intersection, though to really get a good idea of it you have to be there (and it’s also clearer on maps – just google East Longmeadow, MA):<\/p>\n You can’t really see all of the streets in either of the photos, obviously.<\/p>\n On the map, when I was planning the ride, I saw that there was a bike trail of some kind in the town.\u00a0 I found it and rode it – it’s called the Redstone Trail, and is about 1.5 miles long.\u00a0 Here is the northern end:<\/p>\n and here’s the south end:<\/p>\n After riding that path I looked for a place to have lunch, but did not find any place especially interesting.\u00a0 There is a middle eastern place in the town, but it’s closed on Sundays, which is the day of the week I was there.<\/p>\n I headed northwest, and found this little park with a whole lot of geese (not sure if this was in East Longmeadow or Longmeadow, which is a separate town):<\/p>\n Many of the geese were walking in a series of groups toward the baseball diamond, and then into the diamond:<\/p>\n What’s special about that location for them, I have no idea.<\/p>\n I got up into Springfield, and ended up eating lunch at Bueno y Sano<\/a> (a great burrito place which I’ve eaten at in Amherst and Northampton several times).<\/p>\n As I neared downtown Springfield after lunch, I headed for my other objective on this ride – checking out the riverside trail there, which I’d never seen, only heard about.<\/p>\n The path is part of a riverfront park that is separated from the rest of the city by railroad tracks.\u00a0 There are only a few places to cross the tracks.\u00a0 I went over a walking bridge that is up a few flights of stairs.\u00a0 Here are some views from the platform at the top of the stairs:<\/p>\n Here’s the actual bridge over the tracks – it’s one level below the viewing platform:<\/p>\n The bridge seen from its own level:<\/p>\n On the far side of the tracks the bridge has a series of ramps to get you to the ground, rather than stairs (technically there is an elevator on the side I came up, but it wasn’t a big deal to carry my bike up the steps).<\/p>\n Once on the path, I rode north to see how far it would go.\u00a0 Here’s a river view:<\/p>\n At one point, the path gos into its own sort of bridge, and rises:<\/p>\n This path bridge is to go over a set of train tracks that cross the river:<\/p>\n While above the tracks I took this picture (which you may have seen on my Will Bike 4 Food fundraising page<\/a>):<\/p>\n After that, the path descended to ground level again, and headed up into the city’s north end.\u00a0 I got off where it ended and rode up into Chicopee.\u00a0 I soon had to cross the Chicopee River, which is accomplished with this little temporary bridge right now:<\/p>\n This is there for pedestrians and bikes while a street bridge is being rebuilt:<\/p>\n That’s the temp bridge on the left.\u00a0 Cars have a detour that involves the freeway.<\/p>\n Here is the view upriver:<\/p>\n From there, I headed up through a bit of Holyoke, back into S. Hadley, and home.\u00a0 My total distance for the ride was 56 miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s another bike ride I did this summer.\u00a0 I rode down to the town of East Longmeadow, which is south of Springfield.\u00a0 I’d never been there before, so I wanted to take a look. 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