Though snow has fallen in Cedar City in mid-January, and riding is a little more challenging as a result, Dave has enjoyed many rides on his road bike and mountain bike over the months – including a pleasant fall ride around town on bike trails and roads (where there are no bike trails). He didn’t even have to leave his neighborhood to begin enjoying fall colors.

The paved bike trail passes near Dave and Jan’s neighborhood along beautiful Coal Creek.

From the Coal Creek Trail, the ride up the Cedar Canyon portion of the bike trail continues beside Coal Creek for around a mile and a half with some beautiful views of the creek and surrounding red rocks.

Back on the southern extension of the Coal Creek Trail, the East Bench Trail climbs fairly steeply to its high point and then levels off after a drop in elevation toward the southern part of Cedar City.

Crossing under the I-15 freeway, heading west, the bike trail becomes the Cross Hollow Trail.

A newly added eighth of a mile trail turns north along what Dave describes as the west hills – where there are miles of dirt roads to be explored by bicycle or on foot (as Dave and Jan did recently).

Riding north, then east on public roadways takes the rider back to the northwestern part of the Coal Creek Trail and back into Dave and Jan’s neighborhood with more fall colors to enjoy on the way.

Of course, with the arrival of winter the scenery has changed quite a bit – but that is the way the Lord said it was going to be, and there are a variety of enjoyments in each of the four seasons.

Genesis 8:22 (NASB)
²²  “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.”