Arabia Mountain Park Ride with Emily

Emily and I went for a bike ride today at Arabia Mountain park. I've hiked there with Diane and the kids before but this was my first time biking which I have really wanted to do. The park has a great, paved trail for walking, skating or biking. We had a beautiful 3-day weekend (MLK day) and it was great to spend a bunch of it out doors.


Arriving at the park

Evidently the trail is about 12 miles long and goes from Stonecrest Mall to Arabia mountain and then on to Panola mountain state park. Emily and I started at the Arabia mountain park visitor center which is at about mile marker #3 and rode out to 8.3. It was a little over 10 miles total. The hills are not steep but it is a constant up and down which really started to wear Emily out and is why we turned back when we did. She was enjoying it though and was never negative about it.


This looked like an old jail. There wasn't any signs to tell us about it.

Really nice covered bridge over a stream. There were a lot of streams and creaks.

Emily on some bike sculptures. We saw these a few times along the trail.

Since we had such a great work out we decided to end the trip with some Bruster's ice-cream Originally Emily wanted to go to Smoothie King but I wasn't sure where that was so she "settled" for ice cream. I got a Mudslide which was chocolate, marshmallow, and Oreos! It was fantastic. Emily wanted to get he usual Strawberry but they told us it was soft so I convinced her to get something else and she got mint chocolate chip.

Ice-cream for recovery

What a great day. I hope she'll want to do it again!