One of Limberlost’s first partnerships, the 3rd Annual Tour de Clack, is less than a month away. We’re excited to be partnering with the Clackamas River Basin Council (CRBC) to coordinate the event’s route. The CRBC does great work rehabilitating streamside habitat and nurturing one of the best and most popular recreational river systems in the Portland area.

The Tour de Clack is a bike ride through the watershed, exploring country roads and showing off the CRBC’s projects at each rest stop along the route. You have a 32 mile or 48 mile route to choose from.

Both courses will offer support vehicles on course in case you need a lift or get a flat tire. There will be rest stops at least every 15 miles featuring stream restoration projects. The course will be well marked and you will be provided with a turn-by-turn cue sheet to guide you through the route. Coffee and donuts will be available in the morning to get you geared up for the day’s ride. Rest stops will be staffed with friendly and knowledgeable volunteers and Clackamas River Basin Council staff and will be stocked with snacks, water, and Gatorade.

We hope to see you out there!

To learn more, check out our registration page.

32 MILE LOOP
This route traverses Milo McIver, leaves the park beside River Mill Reservoir along a gravel path, and then crosses the river into Estacada for the first stop—an installed bioswale at the Estacada Library. You’ll then continue on through bucolic countryside and to a site on Eagle Creek near Bonnie Lure Park planted with native trees and shrubs as part of CRBC’s Shade Our Streams project. Leaving here, you encounter the first two climbs and then a fast, fun descent to Barton Park and back over the river. The ride meanders on quiet roads through more farm land with fantastic views of the Clackamas River and Mount Hood. After another climb and downhill you arrive at the final stop—a fish habitat restoration project on Mattoon Road that features large woody debris, tree planting, and fish passage barrier removal. Shortly after leaving that stop the ride heads up Stormer Road, the last and most difficult climb. Don’t worry, it’s steep but quite short, and then you’re a quick downhill away from the end of the ride and a dip in the Clack!

48 MILE LOOP 
This more challenging option leads you through some of the finest road riding around. It departs along the same route as the 30 mile route and then splits off after the Bonnie Lure rest stop. Soon you head through lush forests and past Eagle Fern Park. From there the ride gradually gains elevation through rolling hills to a rest stop at an engineered riffle and bridge replacement at Porter Road. More rolling hills lead you back down to the Clackamas River where you’ll connect to the PGE multi-use path along the North Fork Reservoir. This will bring you to the last stop of the ride at Faraday Lake before you re-enter Milo McIver.