Driving (or biking!) tour route of downtown development?

[Spartan]

Hey all,

I am back in town for the first week of July and while I'll be spending a lot of time downtown, I want a nice succinct route that impressively highlights all of the growth for when I can drag friends or family downtown. It's usually an unspoken custom that my friends expect a quick downtown tour from me, but I haven't had much time to give it thought this year and I also don't know what's open or closed.

Thanks guys!

[Plutonic Panda]

If the Temps aren't to hot out, I'd recommend renting some Spokies bikes in Midtown right next to McNellies and make your way to Bricktown. That is what I have been doing.

I've been finding myself spend more and more time downtown lately. It is awesome and I love the vibe!

[Dennis Heaton]

I catch the "008" (EMBARK/Metro Transit) and walk the streets of Downtown, Bricktown...because that's what I like to do. Bring lots of change...for the Homeless.

[Spartan]

If the Temps aren't to hot out, I'd recommend renting some Spokies bikes in Midtown right next to McNellies and make your way to Bricktown. That is what I have been doing.

I've been finding myself spend more and more time downtown lately. It is awesome and I love the vibe!

Yeah, Spokies are great. I showed my old pop (whose spent his whole life in an exurban community SW of town) the Spokies when they were new and I will never forget how wheeling around on 2 gave him a new, shockingly positive opinion of downtown and he finally understood why people are so dedicated to it.

Spokies are absolutely THE way to show someone downtown.

But for a quick drive I'm thinking: NW 10th to Broadway, to Reno east to Mickey Mantle/Walnut then up Oklahoma to 10th and back south on Robinson, then cut west on Sheridan and back north on Walker.

But then I think half of those roads are closed.

[RodH]

Robinson between Kerr and Park is closed for P180. I doubt it will be open soon.

[warreng88]

The wife and I did a self-biking tour of OKC a few years ago and it was a lot of fun. I would rent Spokies from Midtown, ride down 10th street to Broadway, going south, east on 4th to Deep Deuce, over to Walnut, south to Bricktown, east on Reno to Lincoln, south to the River, west to Walker, north back to DT, east on Reno to Robinson, north as far as it will let you go, then west to Hudson, back up to 10 and over to midtown. I mapped it out and it would be about seven miles total round trip.

https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=U...&z=15&lci=bike

[CCOKC]

I like that route pretty well. I also like to get from AA to DD east on 9th street to Oklahoma. There are more bike paths that way and since I am the worst bicyclist in the history of the world, the more bike paths the better for me. I also prefer to go east through Deep Deuce because of the hills. That one going west on second street is a killer.

[warreng88]

I like that route pretty well. I also like to get from AA to DD east on 9th street to Oklahoma. There are more bike paths that way and since I am the worst bicyclist in the history of the world, the more bike paths the better for me. I also prefer to go east through Deep Deuce because of the hills. That one going west on second street is a killer.

I was trying to figure out a way to do that as well. I originally had it going east on 10th to Oklahoma, then south through DD, but didn't want to cut AA completely out so I jogged it over at 4th so there would be no train delays.