Riding at Antelope Island
Fall of 2010 - 30 photos
Fall of 2010 - 30 photos
(Last updated November 2010)
In September of 2010, my daughter Cheryl, her husband Jack, and I, rode our bikes from their house in Syracuse out to Antelope Island and back. The distance across the causeway going out there is 7 miles, added to the ride through Syracuse made it a long enough ride. we found the long straight stretches of the causeway to be boring. Nothing to see for miles, and the road is perfectly level. The ride up the first hill on the island is quite long and steep, so we didn't ride much around the island this time. The kids turned around about half way up the hill, but I kept going to the top and rode around the top a little. Myself, I rode a total of 28 miles.
In late October, my daughter Cheryl and I went back out to Antelope Island. This time we drove all the way to the Fielding Garr Ranch, (which was as far as we could go, as they were rounding up the Buffalo/Bison and stopped us there). We rode north first because I thought that would get the up-hill part over with, then we would have an easy ride back to the car. Ha! there were lots of up and down hills both ways, but the worst one was going north close to the north end. Hate to admit that it took us 5 hours to ride 20 miles, but I did stop a lot to get pictures with my little pocket camera. Many of them with the full 14x optic zoom of that camera, (about 400mm or 8x), and making panoramas at that. Because I didn't take my monopod, I had to lean on my bike and sometimes people's cars along the way. There were a lot of people out there to watch the roundup.
For those that don't know, Antelope Island is a State Park, requiring an entry fee. Also they charge a toll for crossing the 7 mile causeway, included in the entry fee. I believe the total cost is $9.00 per car, or $3.00 per person on bikes. There are a lot of paved roads on the island, the longest running along the east side, and more at the north end of the Island. There is no road going all the way around the island, but a dirt road does continue on to the south end from the Fielding Garr Ranch. There are also many dirt trails used by hikers, bikers, and horse riders. One can ride for many miles on the island, if you don't mind a lot of hills.
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These photos were taken with a small Canon Powershot, SX210, 14 Megapixel Camera which has Image Stabilazation and lens from wide angle to 14x optical zoom. These photos are set to lower resolution and compressed 10:1 for faster loading. You are welcome to look at or download any of the photos. If you use them on any other webpage, please give credit and refer back to me.