BRK #354
I rode my bike all throughout Missoula today, and I feel like a million and a half bucks.
Here's some graffiti I passed along the Milwaukee Road Trail, in west Missoula.
I enjoy this bike trail quite a bit. It's all designed to prevent bicycles from needing to cross heavy auto-traffic roads unless it's at intersections. Here's a panoramic view of the north-south stretch of Reserve Street. There's a pedestrian and bicycle tunnel underneath the road, and pathways up to the road level
should a person want to travel along Reserve instead of across it. There are other roads that have received the same treatment. It's an admirable system.
There are also two community gardens along that route. One is mixed into the residential area (I think it's called the
Milwaukee Path Community Garden?), while the other marks the terminus of the western end of the Milwaukee Road Trail, and is called
Orchard Gardens Community Garden. Both are decent, and it looks like Orchard Gardens has attached residences and
solar power panels along its building roofs. The Milwaukee Path Community Garden reminds me of the
local effort I participated in for a few years before moving out here to Montana.
On some stretches of the bike path, there's an open waterway coursing through a concrete-reinforced channel. Maybe this is a tributary to the Clark Fork that's been "managed"?
Next: ducks!
That's all for now. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day...!
