Kevin:

I always wondered why they never maintained it, and then they closed
it slowly, a section at a time. Never sure why.

In the 1980s, I rode parts of it from Quail Lake (138 near I-5), and
a long section from Sierra Hiway (near Pearblosson Rd.) all the way
to Tejon Road (10+ miles). It went through several valleys with
siphons, the trail there curved really nice. The aqueduct goes east
to Hesperia, not sure how far east you could bike.

One day a friend, Mark, and I drove to each part of the aqueduct
from Tejon Rd. west, and found the only open section around Quail
Lake (you can fish but not bike!). That was over 5 years ago and
I'm sure it's closed now.

If you start or find a movement to get the water people to open this
again, count me in !

Dave Westaway


--- In bikepaths@yahoogroups.com, "kevinburtonsmith" <kvnsmith@t...>
wrote:
> I'm a man of wealth and taste...
>
> Nah, not really.
>
> But I have talked myself into a gig writing a bike column for a
> local sports rag in the Antelope Valley, where I've recently moved
> (from Montreal, a great biking city).
>
> So, what's the deal with the California Aqueduct Bikeway?
>
> Is this a myth? Some political grandstanding that was tossed
> aside as soon as some election was over? Or did it once
> actually exist?
>
> Everywhere I've been to, trying to access the damn thing, there
> are signs saying no bicycles, and there seems to be little info on
> the net that's more recent than a few years ago.
>
> If anyone out there has a clue, lemme know...
>
> Kevin Burton Smith
> Bicycles/Detectives/Rock'n'Roll