Arbor Day Farm at Nebraska City to host Radler Bike Festival
Radler Bike Festival expected to register hundreds of cyclists
By News Channel Nebraska
NEBRASKA CITY – City commissioners offered their approval Monday for a cyclist event that is expected to make Nebraska City is annual anchor.
The rock road Radler Bike Festival held its inaugural event from Lincoln to Roca Berry Farm, but will start a new tradition for year two with starts June 5-6 from Arbor Day Farm.
Krystl Knabe, event marketing manager from the Lied Lodge & Conference Center, asked commissioners for the assistance of street crews setting up route markers and police to direct traffic through key intersections following mass starts.
Knabe: “We will continue now to host this event annually here in Nebraska City, given the approval from the city council through town."
She told commissioners that the event is named after Radler, a German beer that is fruit flavored. Kinkaider Brewery Company of Broken Bow is participating in the event with a special Radler beer just for the festival.
Three lodging options are offered for riders as they come to town. Lied Lodge and two options for a
campground at the meadow on the grounds of Arbor Lodge State Park. One option is to bring your own tent and the other is a concierge camping service using a tent already set up.
All routes start from the Arbor Day Farm.
The tentative, 2-mile North Loop includes descents of 191 feet on Goosehill Road and an ascent to 1,323 feet on 54th Road west of Nebraska City.
Medium and long routes are also planned. The medium route of 43 miles goes north to Nehawka and west to near Avoca.
The long route of 65 miles is scheduled to leave the barns at 1 p.m. on June 5. It will go north to Plattsmouth and return south to Nebraska City.
The tentative south loop of 22 miles starts at the historic barns at 9 a.m. on June 6th. It includes an ascent to the Nebraska City airport on Highway 75 to 1,149 feet to the plummeting descent of 222 feet down the river bluff to south 70th Road. It also includes the 176-foot climb out of the river bottom just to drop another 157 feet before climbing again to Highway 75.
Radler Bike Festival organizers call it a Sunday ride through the beautiful countryside.
The south loop will cross the Steamboat Trace trail at Minersville, but is not scheduled to use the trail, which has been closed since the flooding of 2019.
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