We started the nonprofit National Bicycle Greenway in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1993 and held Washington, DC out as our goal. While we got the support of hundreds of Mayors all across the country, got our mission widely known about and figured out a route, after several decades, we found ourselves treading water. We had little interest beyond California.

In 2018, we, at long last, accepted the fact that biking from San Francisco to the Nation’s Capital, was just too time prohibitive and/or daunting of a task for most cyclists. As a result, we finally moved our operation to Indianapolis where we are far more accessible to East Coast cyclists and can also be seen as a worthy transcontinental destination from the West Coast. As an unrivaled bonus, our home office is now located in what has become, the Top Biking City in America.

Peerless as the Greenway Capitol of America, in a city where cycling is embraced by its business purveyors and a lions share of the locals, we need for Indianapolis to also be seen as the Bike Capitol of America. Once it is recognized as this country’s best bike city, this will have the effect of drawing cyclists from both coasts to what is also known as the Crossroads of America.

Spanning the period of of 4-1/2 decades, over the course of many hundreds of thousands of miles, I’ve biked across the United States a couple of times, for five years I lived and biked Car-Free in Europe, and I have been in all 48 contiguous states on a pedal machine. Nowhere have I found better biking turf than what is here in Indianapolis. There are bike trails and bicycle greenways everywhere to be found here!

And that is what the Ride with GPS (RWGPS) people are helping us to show on our map. With their tools, besides showcasing Indy’s many trails and greenways, we have been able to shine a very bright light on Indianapolis’s top bike attraction, the only downtown Greenway in the World, the 8-mile (soon to be 10) Indianapolis Cultural Trail (ICT). With the help of RWGPS icons we have also been able to embellish the ICT with all of the easily accessible Points Of Interest (POI) that make it the internationally acclaimed sensation that it is. To make these POI (HERE are many of them) even more poignant, I have embellished them with passages from my book, “How Indianapolis Built America“. In addition, in case you missed it, here is our short virtual tour of the world-class Cultural Trail..