Wouldn't it be better to go down the Interurban bike trail instead of West Valley? At least there
are only cars at the street intersections. Lots of bunnies along the trail though
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> > > Hello, I've noticed during my trip planning that most people (everyone I've read about) is
> > > biking from the Seatac Airport North towards a ferry. Does anyone know about an alternate
> > > route going south through Olympia perhaps and down to Centralia (where we'd like to hook up
> > > with an established bike route towards Astoria).
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> > If you'd like to get to Centralia, and are indifferent about Olympia, using the STP route makes
> > a fair bit of sense. Go to the Cascade Bicycle club site
http://www.cascade.org and click on
> > Events/STP. Last year's route map should be fine. If you need to figure out how to connect from
> > the airport to the STP route, contact me.
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> OK, I see now that the Cascade site doesn't have the 2003 map up, and they don't still have last
> year's. So I'd email the nice folks at Cascade and ask for last year's as a PDF file.
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> And here's the scoop on how to intersect with the route they'll send you: From the airport, take
> 188th. This road will drift off to the right, cross under I-5, and will become Ortilla Road.
> Ortilla will descend into the Kent Valley and becomes 212nd. 212nd will cross the West Valley Hwy
> (SR 181 or 68th Ave S), which is the STP route.
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> The STP route is mostly flat (a big hill around Puyallup) and has very little traffic. You should
> find it a relatively easy ride.
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> Warm Regards,
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