Charleston, SC

Oct 25-27,2024

Itinerary

These are the rides we have scheduled for the weekend, lower on the page you can find descriptions and maps of each of the planned rides. Try to plan on having your board charged for the start of each ride. Bring your charger!!!

• Friday 10/25/24
  • 10am – Laurel Hill County Park Trails, Mt Pleasant
    • Generator on site
  • 3pm – Biggin Creek MTB Trail, Moncks Corner
    • Generator on site
  • 6pm-7pm – Jonn Myers Float Track, Mt Pleasant
    • Please be courteous with parking since this is in a neighborhood
  • 8pm – Daniel Island Trails and Island Tour, Daniel Island
    • Generator on site
• Saturday 10/26/24
  • 10am – West Ashley Greenway, Charleston
    • Generator and Lunch/Snack at California Dreaming
  • 3pm-4pm – Jonn Myers Float Track, Mt Pleasant
    • Please be courteous with parking since this is in a neighborhood
  • 5pm – Mt Pleasant to Sullivans Island Tour, Mt Pleasant
    • Generator on Sullivans Island
    • Lots of Restaurants for Dinner on the Island
• Sunday 10/27/24
  • 10am – Wannamaker County Park, North Charleston
    • Cottonwood Shelter Meeting Location and Home Base
    • Grills available but bring your own charcoal/lighter/food/etc
    • Scavenger Hunt throughout park trails
    • Generator on site
  • 1pm – Wannamaker North Trails, Goose Creek
    • Can ride directly from the county park, but it is a few miles each way so keep that in mind, driving may be better for battery life
  • 3pm – Wannamaker County Park, North Charleston
    • Cottonwood Shelter
    • Scavenger Hunt Prizes
      • Armor-Dilloz Tire Sealant, Craft and Ride Fender, Stickers, Ghost Keychains, Plastic Spider Engraved Tumblers, Sticky Feet GT Footpads, etc.
    • Generator on site
  • 6pm-7pm – Jonn Myers Float Track, Mt Pleasant
    • Please be courteous with parking since this is in a neighborhood

The point of speed limits is just to be respectful of pedestrians and pets and keep us in a good light in the community. Please Please Please be respectful and don’t fly past people! Slow down when passing people walking and be careful when passing bicycles and announce when you are coming up behind them. Please look in front of you so you don’t run into bikers/pedestrians!

Current Schedule:

10/25/24 Friday

Morning – Meeting time 10am – $1 admission

Laurel Hill County Park – (Trails) – 7.6mi for all trails – Around 1 hour

Meet at 1251 Park West Blvd, Mt Pleasant, SC 29466

Ride info: Orange and Yellow trails are fairly easy, pretty smooth but some gravel. Blue trail is very rooty, can be quite challenging and slow moving. Green trail also pretty easy mostly, but a few roots to navigate around.

Afternoon – Meeting time 3pm

Biggin Creek MTB Trail – (Trails) – 4.8mi – 1 hr

Meet at 570 Rembert C Dennis Blvd, Moncks Corner, SC 29461

Ride info: This is a fun mountain biking trail with lot of up and downs. Minimal roots, but not none. A little slower moving for most people. Everything is posible with a VESC board or a GTS, with less powerful boards you may struggle to make it up some of the climbs, but you are only picking the board up for 10-20ft if you don’t make it. Definitely one of the more worthwhile rides for offroad in the Charleston area.

Late Afternoon – Open ride time time 6pm-7pm

Jonn Myers Float Track – 1218 Calais Dr, Mt Pleasant, SC 29464

Ride info: Fun little loop with high flyover. Really test your skills on a tight track!

Night – Meeting time 8pm

Daniel Island Trails and Golf Course – (Paved and Trails) – 12mi+ – 1.5 hrs+

Meet at Daniel Island Rec Center – 160 Fairbank Dr, Charleston, SC 29492

Ride info: The trails are right around the Rec Center, and are pretty smooth mostly. If you are comfortable you can definitely get some good speeds on these trails, just watch out for occasional old pavement and a root poking up here and there. The rest of the ride is mostly wide sidewalk with the occasional jump onto neighborhood roads. The ride can go from one to two hours, to sometimes upwards of 4 hours. The video below I believe was over 3 hours and ran until 1am for a couple of us. It was a good time, but we don’t always go that far.

10/26/24 Saturday

Morning – Approx 10:00am meeting time

West Ashley Greenway to California Dreaming in West Ashley – (Mostly Paved / Approx 2mi Unpaved) – 26.4mi – 2 hrs

Meet at Stono County Park, 3580 McLeod Mill Rd, Johns Island, SC 29455

We plan on having the generator at California Dreaming in the parking lot so you can charge while we eat some lunch. That is approx 14 miles into the ride. Please bring your chargers! We did this ride yesterday and were able to make it there and back with about 15-25% battery left on a GT and a Floatwheel ADV Pro, so plan accordingly.

Ride info: The trail is dirt/gravel for the first mile or so, then all paved after that. The Wapoo Road section is riding mostly in the road, but it is not a busy street. Typically we will hop on the sidewalk or a driveway to let cars pass if needed.

Evening/Night – Meet at 5pm at the Cheryll-Flowers Soccer Field

The route from Soccer field, to the top of the Ravenel Bridge and ultimately to Sullivan’s Island is about 15.5mi for the planned route. Skipping the bridge part will shave 3-4mi off the route.

Meet at Cheryll-Flowers Soccer Field at 85 Patriot Point Blvd, Mt Pleasant, SC 29464

Ride info: Starting out at the parking lot of the soccer field, we will cross the street on the sidewalk that leads to the walk/bike path over the bridge. You will use about 10%-15% battery just going to the top of the bridge, but will get about half back on the way down, so plan accordingly. Watch out for pedestrians and possible oncoming bikes coming down, they will be going too fast so be ready.

It looks like the permits would not be approved for downtown, so we will now plan to ride up the bridge for a photo op, then head through Mt Pleasant all the way to Sullivan’s Island. We will plan to have the generator on Sullivan’s Island and since it should be dark by then we can have potential night beach rides! This will be a mostly street ride through different points of interest throughout Mt Pleasant and down to the beach on Sullivan’s Island.

The return trip back to the Soccer field after dinner/charging can be straight back or we can do a more roundabout route depending how people feel about it.

10/27/24 Sunday

Morning – Meet about 10am

Wannamaker County Park – (Paved and Trails) – 6.5mi approx – 1 hr

Meet at 8888 University Blvd, North Charleston, SC 29406

We will have the Cottonwood Shelter rented for the day, so this will be home base for Sunday. We also plan of having some awards in the afternoon. There are grills at the shelter so still looking at best plans for lunch on site if people would like or if we just keep it as a meeting point.

Wannamaker North Trails – (Trails) – Meet about 1pm

Meet at 455 Westview Blvd, Goose Creek, SC 29445

Ride info: Yellow trail is the easiest, just under 2 miles. Nice intro to trail riding. Green trail is pretty nice, about 2.7 miles, but has some steep up and downs so be ready for that. Blue trail is a bit more technical. LOTS of roots, not unmanageable, but honestly I didn’t find it fun after doing the first 2 trails. I was averaging about 4-5mph on the Blue trail, and I probably won’t do it again if that tells you anything. There is an Orange trail you can get to by going straight up the Yellow trail, but my feet were too spent after the Blue trail to do anything else.

Finally got to the Orange trail. It was awesome. Very similar to Biggin as far as flows, with a little less severe up and downs.. so most any board can handle the whole trail. Not very rooty either, very nice! I highly recommend this trail!

Additional Sites Around Charleston

James Island County Park – (Paved) – 6mi – 30 min

Meet at 871 Riverland Dr, Charleston, SC 29412

Ride info: All paved trails throughout the park. Nice scenery. Good place if you like to do other activities like rock climbing or disc golf which are both available here as well.