Saturday, July 11, 2026
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21+ Only
WEEKEND TRIP
Rose City Golf Club, NE 72nd & Tillamook
Outside ladies restroom
Maria the Bicycle Kitty
Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 9:00 AM
Email me to learn our meet time
Ride is a loop
Ride length: 15+ miles
Ladies, you are invited to join us for a weekend of bike camping! This trip is meant to be beginner-friendly, and also fun for experienced riders/campers. If you're feeling intimidated at all, please let me know what your concerns are so I may reassure you. This trip welcomes ladies* (*trans ladies this means you too!), but no e-bikes please. If you are a dude or ride an e-bike, I invite you to continue scrolling to other events and not waste time getting mad or sending me hate mail. All of my other rides welcome dudes and e-bikes, just not this one. Our destination is the lovely Battleground Lake Park, near Battleground, Washington. There's a lake to swim in or hike around or you can just hang around our campsite and relax. There are several picnic tables and lots of trees at our site, although I cannot guarantee you'll find a spot to easily hang a hammock. There are showers and bathrooms and potable water at the park. If you'd like, bring a game or activity for the group to enjoy together. Saturday, we'll meet at Rose City Golf Club on NE 72nd Avenue, just north of Tillamook Street. When you arrive, ride into the parking lot, take the first right onto the sidewalk and head to the picnic tables. There's a ladies restroom just past the picnic tables. I'll be in touch by email with our start time (RSVPs are required). About 8 miles in, we'll stop at Cafe Yumm for lunch. We'll be able to see our bikes from inside, so you don't need a lock. I'll be bringing a cheap cable lock just in case, and leaving my heavy u-lock at home. At mile 23, we'll take a rest stop at Kiwanis Park, which has restrooms and water. We will not be stopping at any stores, so please be sure to bring what you need to eat for the entire weekend (there is a "burger shack" at the park). I've curated a pretty sweet low-traffic, 30 mile paved route, which includes a couple of short off road sections that can be walked if you don't care to ride those. There are many turns, so please ride behind or beside me, this also lets me set our pace (about 10-12-14mph). We'll be stopping often for short regroups to keep the group together. Route to Battleground: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/51813545 When we arrive at camp, we'll head directly to the hard-to-find Hiker / Biker campsites. Pretty please let me lead us to our site. The entry is uphill and if you are challenged going slow uphill, hang at the bottom for a bit, then head up. Once we get settled in, I'll head over to the check-in booth to pay. The entire site area costs just $24. I'll collect cash at lunch time (including some money for firewood assuming there's no burn ban by then). Sunday we'll stay at the park until noon. Check out is 11am, so we'll pack up and leave our site to head over to the little on site "burger shack", which I cannot guarantee will be open. If it is, it's burgers and fries and rootbeer floats and the like. If it's closed, we'll have lunch at Burgerville in Battleground instead. Sunday's route is the reverse of Saturday's, and we'll have regroup stops along the way and a rest stop at Kiwanis Park again, then say our goodbyes back where we started at Golf City Golf Club. Route to Portland: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/50530942 For food, you'll need to shop in advance of the trip and carry food for both days: bike snacks, Saturday's dinner and Sunday's breakfast and coffee. If you don't like Cafe Yumm or the burger places, you'll want to pack meals to replace those also. When in doubt, use calorie counts to guide you. For your overnight gear, you'll need a tent and sleeping pad and sleeping bag. If you want a hot dinner / breakfast / coffee, you'll also need a portable stove to get water hot. A headlamp will be useful to find your way to the bathroom in the night. Since we're near a lake, bug spray will be a must. We'll also be near each other, so earplugs to sleep with may be helpful. Don't forget your swimsuit and towel! Here's a link to my suggested gear list, which includes info on where to rent gear: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r-Jf3c5SvBPiGKaP2MU2vQuVjJBw45PcDv37_TBKCTA/edit?usp=sharing Finally (thanks for reading this book!): this is an "all or nothing car-free" trip. That means no late joiners or early departers - block out your entire weekend for fun! This also means no cars (ie please don't invite a friend to drive to meet us along the route or at camp). We will be self supported rad lady cyclists spending the entire weekend having fun without anyone feeling rushed. RSVP is required for this trip, as our headcount limit is 15 riders. You can RSVP by emailing me at bicyclekitty@gmail.com.
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