Kansas Cycling Photos

Sam's Tastee Treat is located in Olathe, KS. It's an old-style ice cream and burger joint that's been open since 1963.

A small rocky stream crossing on the mountain bike trails at Hillsdale Lake. This was during a fairly wet Spring, so there was quite a bit of water flowing. Later in the year, this stream is likely to be smaller and slower.

This plaque at Lone Elm Park near Olathe, KS shows that the Santa Fe Trail, Oregon Trail, and California Trail all passed through this site. Lone Elm Park was originally a famous campground during settlement of the west. Today, a small nature park with a couple miles of trails occupies the site.

This is typical of a lot of the trails on the south side of Hillsdale Lake -- a winding path through grassland and cedars. This is perhaps smoother than most ... the trails get a lot of horse traffic, so some of it is pretty rough, and gets muddy in a few places. But good riding, for the most part.

Nowhere, KS was originally a stop on the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Fort Gibson railroad, and today the Midland Railway runs on these tracks. As far as I can tell, this is all that's left of the town. So this is a literal picture of "the middle of nowhere". Location is on Montana Road just south of Woodson Road, in Franklin County, Kansas.

This is the Silver Creek Bridge in Cowley County (bridgehunter.com), a beautiful two-span stone arch bridge built in 1890. Cowley County is home to at least 17 stone arch bridges.

Two cyclists celebrate reaching the Missouri state line at the finish of the 2011 Biking Across Kansas tour. Near La Cygne, Kansas.

Cyclists enjoying the fall colors on Queens Road, near the Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge, in Linn County, Kansas.

A bicyclist rides through a snow-covered landscape in Paola, Kansas.

Bicycle tourists pose beneath the 'First City' mural in Leavenworth, Kansas. The mural depicts 'Buffalo Bill', an early lawman in what was the first city incorporated in the state of Kansas.

Bicyclists on a sidepath along 111th Street, cross a bridge over the Mill Creek Streamway, in Olathe, Kansas.

Bicyclists and pedestrians enjoy the Mill Creek Streamway in Olathe, Kansas.

A groups of bicyclists ride the brick streets towards the historic courthouse in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.

A groups of bicyclists contemplate the end of the pavement and the start of a gravel road in Chase County, Kansas.

This historic bridge in Melvern, Kansas is restricted to pedestrian and bicycle traffic only.

A handcyclist makes his way through Baldwin City during the 2010 Biking Across Kansas tour.

Parked bicycles surround a school in Eudora, Kansas during the 2010 Biking Across Kansas tour.

This is Roger Lomshek, who owns Tailwind Cyclists in Pittsburg, KS. Roger also organizes the annual Gorilla Century and the Kansas Road Race Championships (criterium, time trial, road race) in and around Pittsburg, and takes the lead on a number of trail-building projects in southeast Kansas. Thanks for all you do to promote cycling, Roger!

Cooky's Cafe in Golden City, Missouri is reputed to have the best pie on the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail. No argument from here. Awesome eats!

A table full of strawberries, grapes, bananas, and other goodies await cyclists on the Kansas City Metro Bicycle Club's annual Spring Classic bicycle ride near Olathe, KS.

A cyclist pedals along 143rd Street (Dennis Avenue) in Olathe, KS.

The Boulevard Drive-In Theatre in Kansas City, Kansas was a 'Bike-In' for one night during 2012 Kansas City Bike Week festivities. Showing this night was the classic bicycle racing movie 'Breaking Away'.