The Gainesville Cycling Club (GCC) will have its famous Memorial Day picnic on Monday, May 28 at Hart Springs in Gilchrist County.   The club will provide bar-becued sow, cow and fowl, club members should bring salads, side dishes and deserts.

 

Please E-mail Chandler (that's me, chanbike@xxxxxxx)  with your choice of pork, beef or chicken so we know how much flesh to order.   Please let me know by 10 p.m. on Friday, so we can call the barbecue on Saturday to place a large order.

 

Ride leaders should organize rides for Monday.  The Nature Coast Trail is near Hart Springs and is the perfect place for families to ride (paved trail---no cars!). The roads near Hart Springs are very quiet.

 

Hart Springs has excellent swimming and also has canoe, kiyak and paddle board rentals.  Entrance to the park is $2 or $3 per person (I forget which).

 

Hart Springs is 38 miles west of  Gainesville.  Go west on Newberry Road (State Road 26), go through Newberry and Trenton.   As you go west on SR 26, there will be several signs directing you to Hart Springs.

You can take either County Road 341 north (right turn) or CR 232 north (right turn) and follow the signs to Hart Springs.