This is a weird but great little path that connects downtown St Paul (near United Hospital) to West 7th. Particularly useful in May 2025 when Shepard Road bike path is closed in this same area. This path hugs along 35E and is a great path at times and then will dump you out on the street sometimes without signage. So it's a bit of fun just to refind the path. There are 3 distinct bike path segments that are easy to lose so I've added a cache in each of them. At the end of number 3 you can continue over 35E on a pedestrian/bike bridge (that also has a cache!) and then you are near lexington where you can scoot down and pick up the path at Shepard again.
Overview of Pedal vs Pills
Grumma BooBoo of Drewski and Fam has decided to combine her 2 favorite hobbies – biking and Geocaching. The title of the series refers to her biking obsession starting with avoiding having to take prescriptions. Unfortunately, she still had to take some. Since she is also a big “reduce, reuse, recycle” person, she has decided to do something fun with her leftover prescription bottles – namely placing caches along fun bike paths.
These hides:
- will be along some of her favorite bike rides
- will be in leftover prescription or supplement bottles - BYOP
- will always be close enough that you can keep an eye on your bike
- will be achievable and not evil (unlike some of Drewski’s hides!)
- will be placed during bike rides so it won’t always be clear how far away parking will be – based on that the terrain # will be a little higher