INto the 219!

Off-Leash Overnighter: INto the 219! is a bite-sized, lightly supported bike camping adventure. It gives you and your family a chance to sneak away by bike, spend a beautiful night of camping under the stars near Griffith, Indiana, and return Sunday morning before your busy life even knows you were gone.

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Where, When, How Far

The ride leaves Saturday morning, 10:15am from Homewood Izaak Walton Nature Preserve (there's plenty of parking to leave your vehicle). The route is 25-miles including just a couple miles of quiet neighborhood streets; the rest is on beautiful and fun paved regional bike paths - Thorn Creek Trail, Pennsy Greenway, Monon Trail, Erie-Lackawana Trail, Oak Savannah Trail - to Oak Ridge Prairie county park near Griffith, Indiana, for a night of tent camping under the stars.

Take as long as you want, explore as much as you want, stop as much as you want; the route connects multiple parks, ice cream stops and breweries, and dinner isn't until 6pm at Oak Ridge Prairie where we camp for the evening (and likely stage a nighttime brewery/coffee/arcade sortie into Griffith).

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We'll roll home to Homewood early Sunday morning (25 miles back), June 14 at 8am after breakfast. Kids welcome!

Itinerary

Saturday, June 13

• 9am - 10am Check-in
• 10am Pre-ride meeting (mandatory)
• 10:15am - 6pm Ride to Oak Ridge Prairie. Paper and electronic maps (RidewithGPS app, GPX/Garmin files) provided. Explore! Get lost! Stop and do things! Have fun! Lunch/drinks/snacks along the way are on your own.
• 6pm - 7:30pm - Dinner (on us, catered by Griffith's famous Grindhouse Cafe) at Oak Ridge Prairie. S'mores and campfire socializing afterward, and probably an entertaining nighttime sortie into Griffith, Indiana.

Sunday, June 14

• 7am - 8am Breakfast on us, catered by Grindhouse Cafe!
• 8:30am - 12pm Ride back to Homewood Izaak Walton

What you bring

Your bike loaded with the camping gear and supplies (tent or hammock, sleeping bag, snacks/food/liquids, bug spray, sunscreen, extra clothes, guitar, ghost stories, etc...) you need to enjoy spending 1-2 nights outside. (See our How-To page)

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Fee 

Bike campers 12- 112 years old - Early-birds pay just $50 until 5/1/19, then $65. 

Bike campers 0 to 11 years old - Free

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Registration limit: 100 bike campers