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Slow Roll Week Two: Gordon Park

Mon, May 08

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Cleveland

Come join us for our first Monday ride of 2023 in Gordon Park on Cleveland's east side.

Slow Roll Week Two: Gordon Park
Slow Roll Week Two: Gordon Park

Time & Location

May 08, 2023, 7:00 PM

Cleveland, E. 72nd,, Cleveland, OH 44103, USA

About the event

Gordon Park was created more than 130 years ago as a gift to the city by grocery and iron ore magnate William J. Gordon, who bequeathed his 122-acre estate on the condition that it forever remain free and open to the public. Today it represents a complicated challenge.

The park, which formerly stretched to the shores of Lake Erie and includes parts which are now incorporated into the Cleveland Lakefront Reserve, was once a popular location for swimming and included a large public beach, a favorite with locals. Post-war pollution put an end to that, along with the construction of a dredge disposal site just east of the park. Re-alignment of I-90 in the 60s literally cut the park in two; today only a narrow pedestrian bridge connects the northern part of Gordon Park to its southern half. Its main attraction, the old Cleveland Aquarium, moved to The Flats decades…

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Slow Roll Cleveland is a 501(c)(3) organization

Slow Roll is a social group bike ride that meets at a different location every Monday night, year round, and rides about 10 miles through the city.

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