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Explore Downtown on a Bike
Brenton Skating Plaza is now offering bike rentals. Explore Des Moines’ scenic trails and experience Downtown in a whole new way! Mountain, Road, and Hybrid bikes available for rental (one hour, 1/2 day, full day, or 7 day rentals) starting as low as $12 per hour.
I’m very excited to see that we can now rent bikes downtown for two reasons:
- I don’t own a bike, but sometimes get the inkling to want to go for a bike ride.
- I just got back from Provincetown last Saturday and had rented a bike there for the week and had a great time riding it and exploring the Cape.
According to local news reports Des Moines’ first bicycle rental facility opened this week at Brenton Skate Plaza. Brenton has teamed up with Bike World to rent out bikes during the ice skating rink’s off season and in an effort to draw more people downtown, specifically to the downtown trails and views along the Principal Riverwalk.
Rentals are available seven days a week, weather permitting, until the ice skating rink opens back up in November. They are hoping the bike rental season to run annually from April to November.
Now that you’ve got your bike, there are some great bike mapping trails from BikeIowa. Just click on the this image for a printable PDF from BikeIowa’s website.
You can find more biking and walking trail maps on our Downtown Maps page.
Also have you heard about the Des Moines Bike Collective?
The Collective is part bike library, part bike co-op, and part bike school.
Here’s some details about the Des Moines Bike Collective from the BikeIowa website:
Bike Collective’s Purpose: To put more bikes under more people.
Posted under Living Downtown
Tags: Biking
