If you live close to Cape Henlopen State Park or you are planning to visit the park you may like the latest news regarding the park and the new bike barn for bicycles, bicycle trailers and more...
Now, the 10-year-old popular program has a new home, with room for growth, thanks to those same volunteers.
Members of the Friends of Cape Henlopen State Park recently finished work on a bike barn, a 16-foot-by-24-foot shed that holds bicycles, kiddie trailers, bicycle trailers, and helmets ready to be used by the thousands of people who flock to the coastal park each year.
"It's a very nice ride around the park -- it gives everybody a chance to see the park that they wouldn't by just walking," said Jim Noles, a board member of the Friends group. The park has three miles of paved bike trails, in a loop.
The barn replaces a smaller structure that has housed the bikes for several years. The old shed is being used by the nature center staff for storage.
It will give the program room to expand as more bikes are donated, holding up to 40 bikes, as well as space to maintain them and store parts, Noles said.
"Also, it has to be more convenient for the public to be able to get to the bikes," Noles said.
The bike barn took the volunteers about two weeks to build.
The program is funded through donations -- about $1,000 a year -- and operated by volunteers.
Cyclists can sign the bikes out at the Seaside Nature Center for two-hour blocks.
The program began with 15 basic bikes, with coaster brakes and no gears. Used bikes have gradually been donated, bikes and pull-behind trailers for infants and toddlers, bicycle trailers.
Park visitors take more than 6,000 bike rides a year, with an average of 1,000 a month during the peak of the summer season. That volume means more maintenance on the bikes, which requires more space.
The bike program is just one of the Friends' many efforts on behalf of the park. Planning is under way for a playground there, which will expand each year, Noles said.
That's great idea, hopefully more of them will appear near us.
I wonder what do you think about the idea?
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