The way points of this bicycle route:
Leave the Lake Shore Bike Path
Looking North from here is the Museum of Science and Industry, built initially for the World's Fair in 1893
The Jackson Park Japanese Garden is a great stop. Finding it from the bike path takes a little wandering through parking lots and other random paths, but it's one of Hyde Park's hidden treasures.
Get on the Midway. Cars sometimes drive fairly fast here, so if that is a concern, parallel to the Midway Plaisance is 59th, which is safer, but has more potholes
Near here, on the Midway, is an enormous statue of Tomas Marasyk, the first president of Czecheslovakia.
On the west side of Woodlawn Ave, Rockefeller Chapel; on the east, Ida Noyes Hall and the Graduate School of Buisness
On the northeast corner of 58th and Woodlawn is Robie House, a Frank Lloyd Wright design.
The Main Quads of the University of Chicago. The Gothic architechture is mostly copied from Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. Take some time to look around, but be courteous on the paths (or lock your bike and walk) as the paths are not designed for pedestrians and bikers.
Harper Library
Botany Pond is on the east side of the path; Hull Gate is straight ahead. Through the gate is the Regenstein Library.
Site of the world's first self-sustained nuclear reaction.
Stretching from Ellis to University on 56th St. are the Max Palevsky Commons. They're...bright.
Looking south, the front of the Museum of Science and Industry.
There are great views of the skyline from this park of the Point.
End back on the Lake Shore Bike Path
Welcome to Bikely, take a step by step tour of this path:
Press Start Tour - then use the navigation buttons below to move along the path.
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