The proposed Bridge to Boat non-motorized bike trail would stretch roughly 50 miles from the Deception Pass Bridge on Whidbey Island’s north coast to the ferry terminal in Clinton in South Whidbey.
Completing this trail is among the objectives of Bike Whidbey , a new nonprofit that is building support for an island-wide bike network that would attract bike tourists and give locals more safe routes to ride.
“There aren’t a lot of jobs on the island, and bike tourism can play a big role in making the island more economically sustainable,” says Cascade Board Member Michael Payne, who co-founded Bike Whidbey in early 2024.
Image Whidbey farm My wife, Katie, and I recently spent a long weekend on Whidbey exploring the island by bike and learning about efforts to boost rural economic development through bicycling and community farming.
Our home base for the weekend was the Organic Farm School , a nonprofit that teaches community scale food production to individuals who want to take up farming as a career. We stayed in the farm school’s luxurious guesthouse, harvested and cooked produce from the farm, fed the chickens, and pedaled the rural roads of South Whidbey. The Organic Farm School’s chicken flock. Thanks for the eggs, ladies! Smugglers Cove Road Ewing Road Growing Bicycling
Located in Puget Sound and reached via the Mukilteo Ferry in the south or the Deception Pass Bridge to the north, Whidbey is Washington state’s largest island at 37 miles long. Whidbey is a great bicycling destination thanks […]
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