A bike ride through Duluth, MN, and Superior / Oliver, WI - Part 1

[Jacob Norlund - KC]

I went on a long bike ride today, beginning from my family's store in West Duluth, taking 40th Ave. W. and 1st St. W. to the Ped / Bikeway on the Bong Bridge, crossed over to Superior, WI, took a highway out of Superior through a rural area to the tiny town of Oliver, WI, crossed over a much smaller bridge back into Duluth, and rode back to my store.

Most of these pictures were taken with autofocus/autoexposure, some while in motion (not necessarily recommended!), so the quality is not always the best.

Here are pictures, in the order of the ride:

- Looking back on 40th Ave. W.

- Coming down 1st St. W. (I think that's what it is, lol), not far from the pedestrian / bicycle entrance to the very long Bong Bridge.

- Entering the bikeway

- Coming up the bikeway.

- Looking backwards towards Duluth.

- A view from the bridge, looking SW I think.

- Crossing...

- It actually looks kind of cool, doesn't it?

- Wisconsin welcomes me...

- And the bikeway ends...

- The first road

- The Billings Park neighborhood in Superior.

- An odd housing development I spotted

- Coming up the (railroad overpass) bridge...

- And coming down

- Downtown Superior, WI

- More Downtown Superior.

- Pulling out of downtown into the land of strip malls, fast food joints, and parking lots.

- Strip mall land continues

- Looking backwards (not the direction I'm going in) through the area back to the Duluth hill.

- Past strip mall land, now into a less dense zone.

- Now on Hwy 105, heading towards Oliver, WI, about 5 miles (8 km) distant.

- The Downtown of Oliver, WI, pop. 265

- Right past Oliver, about to re-enter Minnesota.

- A narrow bridge. This links Oliver to the Gary / New Duluth neighborhood of Duluth, MN, in the city's far west.

[ZachariahDaMan]

Nice pictures, I love going on long bike rides though downtowns. Looks like there is a lot going on in Oliver! haha