It was about time to do another family bicycle tour and the Easter weekend was just perfect for that. Most importantly the weather was great. We decided to bike to Yellow Banks Park by Des Moines since the park sounded quite interesting and most of the ride will be on trails. Now that the kids are bigger and commute daily to school regardless of wind and weather we decided not to take the tandems and instead let everyone ride their own bikes. We started from Slater instead from our house, because we wanted to trim down the mileage a little. Doing so reduced the ride by 10 miles each day making it an easy 35 miles each way. As stated earlier, most of the ride is on the High Trestle Trail. Through Ankeny it becomes the Gay Lead Wilson Trail connector and then the southern most part of the Gay Lead Wilson Trail itself. Unfortunately the last 5 miles are on the road with no shoulders. Two up hills and one down hill part going to the park added...
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