Coming May 2023 the Bike Station at the Shasta Bike Depot!
This is a long-term bike parking facility that will offer a secure, covered, and locked room to park your bike. It is the first of its kind in our region.
Residents and visitors will be able to park their bikes safely and then head to work, shopping, or entertainment. It will also enable inter-city clean mobility options with transit connections at the nearby Redding Transit Center.
Easy to use, convenient & cost effective
On-demand secure bike-parking. Keeps your bike & helmet cool & dry.
Park for a few hours, overnight, or several days.
Multiple methods of security, keeps your bike safe.
Shasta Living Streets staff. Local service and maintenance.
24/7 telephone user support
BikeLink card works at 450+ locations in the U.S.
Only pennies per hour
Pay only for time used.
Card never expires.
5 cents per hour, no monthly or annual fee.
How it works
GET A BIKELINK CARD The BikeLink Card is sold at Shasta Bike Depot and online.
INSERT CARD Insert card and follow the on-screen instructions to park your bike.
PARK YOUR BIKE Enter the facility and make sure no one enters behind you. Always lock your bike inside the facility.
RETRIEVE YOUR BIKE Insert your card and follow the on-screen instructions to retrieve your bike. You will be charged 5 cents an hour.
Here’s something to look forward to in the New Year
The experience starts in Shasta County & Redding
The Great Central Valley Bicycle Route brings riders into the State capitol and county seats, numerous small towns along the river, sites of national, state and local historic importance, parks and natural areas, and a wide variety of agricultural landscapes.
Traveling at 12 miles per hour, along the full 650 mile route, a rider will experience 13 counties and over 34 diverse cities and towns.
On the Great Central Valley Bicycle Route, stopping is as important as going
The trip’s the thing.Route planners have searched for travel that allows riders to see and experience what’s great about the Great Central Valley. Looking for high scenic and educational values and variety, including bucolic countryside, city centers, historic sites, the state capitol and county seats, state and regional parks, university campuses, farmers markets, rivers, beaches and other special places and natural features, etc. We have tried to introduce riders to the many features that make the state, the Valley, and the localities unique.
A comfortable and enjoyable travel experience for all riders is a priority. Bicyclist safety, primarily related to vehicular traffic is a priority. Over 70 miles of the route follows high-quality paved trails enabling traffic-free travel along scenic river corridors, through natural areas and across urban areas. Most of the route follows public streets with bikeways, low volume country roads, quiet residential streets, and low speed pedestrian/bicycle-friendly downtown commercial areas. Only 12 miles of the route follows state highways.
The fastest, direct routes are not a priority. Routes may meander to touch a variety of landscapes and features.
This is a Great Central Valley-focused bicycling route. It’s not intended to travel into the Sierra foothills or coastal hills.
Send us your thoughts: Shasta Dam to Sacramento
Shasta Living Streets continues to work with the team to maintain and promote this route. We will gather input on the route location for the northern section, and work with the team to make adjustments.
Reach out with an email or call us at (530) 355-2230.
Sharing the vision and ongoing collaboration
Michael Smiley led the vision and worked with individuals and organizations across the state. The journey to create the route has been a long one, over three years, with input from over 70 individuals, bicycle organizations and public agencies throughout the length of the Valley.
When riding through, please reach out to share your experiences and thank these folks
These are the people instrumental in making the Great Central Valley Bicycle Route the great ride that it is.
Debra Banks, Executive Director, Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates
Roberto Brady, Tulare Co Association of Governments
Craig Erickson, Chico
Zach Griffin, Bakersfield
Tom Hotham, Education / Outreach, Merced Bicycle Coalition
Anthony Molina, Chair, Fresno County Bicycle Coalition
John Pearson, Executive Director, Chico Velo
Jeff Pell, Routes Director, Bike Lodi
Tina Sumner, Advocacy Coordinator, Fresno Cycling Club
Anne Thomas, Executive Director, Shasta Living Streets, Redding
Mark Wall, Advocacy Director, Southern Sierra Cyclists, Visalia
Brian Zahra, Fun Sport Bikes, Modesto
Our priorities for route choice
The most comfortable, safest route possible. Stress levels 1 & 2.
The best route possible that can be used today. As safer and more attractive bicycle facilities are improved, the route will be realigned .
All paved. Minimize unpaved segments. No single track.
Rail and transit stations on-route or by spur route
Food and beverage closely-spaced along the way
Support services. Bicycle repair, general retail.
Overnight accommodations for 40-60-mile riding days
Minimize steep grades over 5-6%
California’s Great Central Valley
California’s Central Valley is a large, flat valley that dominates the geographical center of the U.S. state of California. It is 40 to 60 miles wide and stretches approximately 450 miles from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific Ocean coast. It covers approximately 18,000 square miles, about 11% of California’s total land area, or about the size of Denmark.
Bounded by the Sierra Nevada to the east and the Coast Ranges to the west, it is California’s single most productive agricultural region and one of the most productive in the world, providing more than half of the fruits, vegetables and nuts grown in the United States.
One more piece of our city trail network! Great news – City of Redding recently completed the bridge and trail section of the Northeast Crossing Trail. Shasta Living Streets was part of the team that helped design and bring the funding for this trail project.
It’s an easy 4.5 mile walk or bike ride from Downtown Redding.
To help you get there, we created a bicycle route map from the Shasta Bike Depot to the new Bridge.
“The depot will be a visitor’s center for transit. It’s a ‘Start Here’ spot for biking and using trails in and around Redding and the North State,” shared Anne Thomas, who will manage the Shasta Bike Depot.
Located next to Redding’s downtown Transit Center, the depot will include a public bike parking garage, classes, community events, an e-bike charging station, guided e-bike tours, and bikeshare. The vision of the depot is to offer amenities that create “comfort, convenience, and enjoyment, for the increasing number of people who choose to walk and bike to get where they want to go,” Thomas said. “This will be a place to find answers to questions, such as ‘Where do I ride?’ ‘What do I wear?’ ‘Where do I find people to ride with?’ ‘How do I put my bike on the bus?’”
“Programming the bike depot to complement the bike network improvements that the City of Redding, Caltrans and SRTA are undertaking is exciting. Imagine a family hopping on bikes near the Sundial Bridge, and easily getting to a downtown destination. Or a person who lives downtown being able to easily access the world-class Sacramento River Trail by bike,” said Rachel Hatch, Senior Program Officer for Community Vitality. “Downtowns that thrive, are those that are bikeable and walkable.”
Bicycle tourism is an important economic driver for the future of Redding, contributing $83 billion to the US economy annually. In addition, it’s a vital option for Redding residents to get around town. “When we give people the resources, skills and confidence they need to get around safely and conveniently by bike, they discover the ease and joy of bicycling. People in Redding and Shasta County aren’t just ready for this – they are excited about it,” Thomas said.
The McConnell Foundation’s Bell Plaza bike depot, café and outdoor courtyard, located on the corner of Shasta and California streets in downtown Redding is visibly taking shape with framing underway. This project is a nod to a piece of Redding’s history at the former Bell Rooms site, while creating a new community amenity.
The Foundation made a 10-year funding commitment to Community Vitality in 2017. This property was the Foundation’s first downtown acquisition and is its first “ground-up” downtown development. The courtyard will be bicycle and pet-friendly.
McConnell selected Trilogy Architecture as the project designer, with its long-term presence and focus downtown. Modern Building Company is the general contractor. The company has several projects under construction in Redding, and has historic restoration experience in Chico and North Carolina.
The Foundation is seeking a café operator that will serve fresh local foods, featuring indoor and outdoor seating. “Our café goal is for it to serve as a lively downtown spot; a place to linger and visit over food and beverages, with options for grab & go. Refuel, explore, repeat,” said Hatch. Key components of community vitality overlap in this project. Active lifestyles, local foods, adaptive reuse, surrounded by small businesses, housing, arts and culture.”
The Shasta Bike Depot and Bell Plaza will open to the public in the spring of 2022.
Bell Plaza & the Depot, first weeks of May 2020
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For more information contact
Shannon Phillips, COO, The McConnell Foundation (530) 949-9460
Rachel Hatch, Senior Program Officer, The McConnell Foundation (530) 604-0409
Anne Thomas, Executive Director, Shasta Living Streets (530) 355-2230
We are excited to announce the winner of the Yuba Spicy Curry e-cargo bike is Redding resident Jenn Pollom! Congratulations Jenn!!
Thank you Redding Electric Utility and Yuba Bicycles. We are very happy to work with these sponsors to help another local family enjoy clean, active transportation with an e-cargo bike!
Cargo bikes >> bikes that carry more!
Yes, we know there are many broken hearts. ♥️ We understand. We want every family to have an e-cargo bike to replace one of your cars!
And a big THANK YOU to everyone who purchased film festival and raffle tickets – your contributions help us bring programs and services to make Redding and Shasta County a better place to bike for everyone. We have more programs in the works to bring ebikes and clean and active transportation options to residents and visitors in Redding and Shasta County.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Wild & Scenic Film Festival. We look forward to the 2022 Wild & Scenic outdoors & in person!
Please Note: We encourage you to ride solo and with your family as much as possible in April and May.
Our staff is working remotely from home – if there is anyway we can offer route coaching or ideas for bike rides, please do contact us at 530.355.2230.
We look forward to being able to offer in-person services again soon.
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We hear from lots of people who want to try biking downtown for work or play, but don’t know where to safely park their bike, or are uneasy about what is the safest route.
#TBIF Services include:
Park your bike safely here Secure bike parking. 7:30AM – 10:00PM
ebike charging station
Freedom From Training Wheels Family play dates/learn to ride. We have bikes for the littlest riders to learn. Or bring your own.
Route coaching, riding partners Thinking about riding downtown for work or play? Uneasy about what route to take and just how to do it? Let us help with your first commutes downtown.
Information about transit options Including the Dash (new downtown shuttle), RABA Downtown Express
Over the next year we will be prototyping services, activities and networking events to assist people with their biking and walking commutes and develop our trail tourism services.
We look forward to your ideas and input!
LOCATION
Shasta Bike Depot
1313 California Street, Downtown Redding
The Shasta Bike Depot creates a mobility hub at the Redding Transit Center to provide amenities to empower and encourage biking, walking and transit commutes by residents and tourists.
The main facility is at the nexus of major bicycle routes bringing people in-and-out on connected, convenient bikeways to other areas of the city and county. It is in the center of a walkable business and entertainment district, an easy walk to the Sacramento River Trail, Turtle Bay Park, and a little further to Hilltop Avenue.
The active transportation commute services will complement transit options to provide people in our community with a full-suite of coordinated, car-free travel options between Redding’s three main walkable districts. Depot services will assist people using the future Salmon Runner inter-city transit connection between Redding and Sacramento.
A Bike Station + Trail Services
The Shasta Bike Depot offers a full-service set of features for active transportation commutes and to serve visitors to our region.
Providing amenities • Creating Community • Empowering People
Education for safety and access
Encouragement events
Bike Match program (coming soon!)
Community activities, public engagement
Tourism services
Bike tours (coming soon!)
These new services will empower commuters and build on enthusiasm for trails and outdoor living. The Bike Depot and Bell Room Plaza will create another great downtown space to forge community identity, support local business, and help grow our regional economy.
Shasta Bike Depot is located today in the warehouse at 1313 California Street. We are developing programs and prototyping services. Construction of the new building across the street is underway now.
Freedom from Training Wheels
Workshops and meetings
Coming Soon!
A mobility hub at the transit center
The Shasta Bike Depot creates a mobility hub at the Redding Transit Center to provide amenities to empower and encourage biking, walking and transit commutes by residents and tourists.
The main facility is at the nexus of major bicycle routes bringing people in-and-out on connected, convenient bikeways to other areas of the city and county. It is in the center of a walkable business and entertainment district, an easy walk to the Sacramento River Trail, Turtle Bay Park, and a little further to Hilltop Avenue.
The active transportation commute services will complement transit options to provide people in our community with a full-suite of coordinated, car-free travel options between Redding’s three main walkable districts. Depot services will assist people using the future Salmon Runner inter-city transit connection between Redding and Sacramento.
A Bike Station + Trail Services
The Shasta Bike Depot offers a full-service set of features for active transportation commutes and to serve visitors to our region.
Providing amenities • Creating Community • Empowering People
Secure bike parking, bike station, bike theft prevention
Education for safety and access
Encouragement events
Community activities, public outreach
Tourism services, bike tours
Redding Bikeshare
Bike Depot programs engage youth participation and include job training and experience, for example in our partnership with Shasta College.
These new services will empower commuters and build on enthusiasm for trails and outdoor living. The Bike Depot and Bell Room Plaza will create another great downtown space to forge community identity, support local business, and help grow our regional economy.
Vision
We imagine Downtown Redding as the center hub of a connected city. It’s a people-friendly, walkable, bikeable district with vibrant public places. Downtown is linked to nearby walkable districts by transit-oriented and trail-oriented development.
This is a cross between traditional small-town America and a modern, progressive thinking city.
When we give a lot more people the resources, skills and confidence they need to get around safely and conveniently walking and biking, they discover the ease and joy of active living. When we add high-quality facilities and experiences, our community becomes healthier, happier, and more prosperous.
Challenges we face with no transportation choice
In our region, the high cost and lack of transportation choice destabilizes families, leads to poor health, and drives talented young people and retired couples to seek another place to live and play. Leaving our families stressed, our businesses without the employees they need, and our children at risk.
Today Shasta County has unacceptably high rates of debilitating health outcomes directly related to inactivity, along with some of the highest levels in the U.S. of death and life-altering injuries from car collisions with people walking and biking.
Unprecedented local opportunity
Major transformation is now possible for regions like ours. New pedal-assist e-bike technology makes bicycling a single-mode transportation option for six to ten miles. This now makes cycling comfortable and easy for everyone – regardless of distance, heat, or hills. To take advantage of this opportunity, we must create safe spaces for people of all ages and abilities to walk and bike. Additionally, California policy and funding supports are now supporting change by our cities to build the networks of safe and separated facilities for biking and walking that we need.
In the past three years our local agencies and community organizations have come together like never before to revitalize our region. The scope of city and regional plans and projects is transformational. Funding for projects includes two of the state’s largest Sustainable Community grants with coordinated active transportation and transit improvements and affordable housing.
Our region is poised to be a model for smart growth and transit and trail-oriented development for non-coastal cities in California, if we continue to move forward and shape our future to benefit families and businesses with transit and trail-oriented development.
Do you ever find it hard to get motivated to ride your bike in the heat or over hilly terrain?
Get inspired, Read Two Wheels North with us
Find some inspiration in this true story that took place in the early years of the 20th century, before cars were the dominant form of transportation and before a quality network of paved roads had been established.
192 Pages. You can easily read it in a few days. Get a book and share with friends!
September 14th Bikes, Books & Beer
Come to Carnegie’s, have a pint and some dinner, and join in lively discussion. We will bring other stories and photos of cycling in the 1800s and early 1900s.
How to get your copy
From Shasta Living Streets
Members can borrow a copy from us for free. Return it when you are done for the next person to read.
Limited number of copies you can keep for a $12 donation.
Call Shasta Living Streets at (530) 355-2230 or email at elizabeth@shastalivingstreets.org to get a copy!
In the Library: Two Wheels North is in the Shasta College Library, F852 .G45 2000
Purchase a new one from the publisher, OSU Press. Here
Two Wheels North, by Evelyn McDaniel Gibb
In 1909, Vic McDaniel and Ray Francisco, just out of high school, set out from Santa Rosa, California, on second-hand bikes, bound for the great Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle. Traveling on dusty roads, roads of logs, of planks, even of corn stalks, and often no roads at all, they pedaled, pushed, and walked a thousand miles north for 54 days. With excitement in their hearts and a good luck billiken in their bedroll, they started out with only $5.65 between them. Camp was wherever, whenever the sun was gone; food was an occasional meal from a kindly farm wife and what they could fish, hunt, or glean…
Evelyn Gibb, daughter of one of the cyclists, has drawn on her father’s recollections to tell this incredible adventure in his voice.
How can Shasta Bike Valet help your event be more successful?
Attract the large number of individuals and familieswho live active lives and are looking for events and places to safely and conveniently ride.
Let us manage bike parkingfor you. Keep bikes off of fences and out of trees. Remove security issues for your guests.
Reduce traffic congestion and free-up more automobile parking by serving people who want to ride instead of drive.
Showcase your organization’s commitment to community goals for excellence in active living.
How does Shasta Bike Valet work?
Our monitored bike parking is like a coat check for bicycles with controls and detailed record keeping. We locate the parking area in a convenient and safe place. Our staff and volunteers ensure bicycles are secure.
We will promote your event to our local active lifestyle community
We will promote your bicycle-friendly event to our members and supporters on social media and in our newsletter.
Extras may include
Raffles, give-aways, educational activities and classes. Talk with our staff about this if you are interested.
To discuss how Shasta Bike Valet can serve you and your event participants
Enjoy a trail through the city to celebrate safe routes and neighborhood greenways. Free to everyone.
It’s an event like no other.
It’s a bike, walk, skip, dance, skate, roll people-powered parade.
Family Bicycling Day. It’s a trail through the city.
BRINGING SMILES
On this day a stretch of the city is transformed into a car-free zone for Sunday enjoyment.
Family, friends and neighbors meet and experience the neighborhood in a new way. Groups across the community come together to celebrate the Garden District neighborhood and complete-streets improvements that help local children walk and bicycle to school.
The stress-free streets created for this event allow area residents to comfortably walk and bicycle with family and friends and learn about places and neighborhood attractions previously unexplored. This gives people a way to see their neighborhood from a new perspective. Families enjoy a safe space to gather, play, ride a bike, dance and engage. Some people will ride a bicycle for the first time. Others will discover they can hula. All are inspired to get out and enjoy our beautiful local neighborhoods more often.
CELEBRATING SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL
We will celebrate the difference the complete street improvements have made to families in their daily lives. The City of Redding, Shasta Safe Routes to School Program, and Sequoia School worked together to identify needed safety improvements and activities.
Learn how our children can be more active in their daily lives with safe crosswalks, traffic calming, protected bike lanes, Walking School Buses, Bike Trains, Crossing Guards, and more!
REDDING IS ON THE CUTTING EDGE. MAKING CONNECTIONS, INSPIRING CHANGE.
Redding is one of the first cities in the nation to host open street events. Shasta Living Streets has produced open street events in Redding for six years in collaboration with local agencies and businesses. When we started we were one of 50 cities in the nation hosting these events to make connections and inspire change. Now there are 133 cities in the nation with open street programs.
Last summer Anne Thomas was invited to present at the third International Open Street Summit. The story of Redding’s ongoing program in a relatively small city that has inspired improvements for safe routes for biking and walking, was one of the most popular sessions at the conference.
COMMUNITY TOGETHER
To create this free public event, Shasta Living Streets and Shasta Safe Routes to School partner to engage businesses and community groups from across the county to participate.
SEQUOIA MIDDLE SCHOOL
Sequoia Middle School serves students in grades 6 through 8 as well as our 4thand 5th grade music magnet program. As afive-time California Distinguished School, Sequoia offers rigorous coursework, an award winning music program and competitive sports teams. The 4th and 5th grade music magnet program showcases strong academics with an emphasis in all music disciplines. For more information please call 225-0020 or visit the website at sequoia.reddingschools.net.
PUBLIC USE OF A PUBLIC STREET
This is an event where residents will be moving about in the neighborhood and on a street as they can do on any day, but in this case without automobiles on the road.
People will be freely enjoying the neighborhood without the stress of car traffic. This greatly reduces risks that might normally exist on this roadway and allows people to walk, bicycle, skate and hula – freely and comfortably on a Sunday afternoon.
Safe Streets.Rader Excavating is the professional team that puts together the traffic plan in cooperation with city officials, and works all day to manage traffic and keep participants safe.
THE MAIN ACTIVITY IS YOU! THE PEOPLE-POWERED PARADE
It’s not just about bikes – you can walk with friends, skate, roll or dance. Throw a Frisbee. Show off that special bicycle: the lowrider cruiser, the cargo bike, the family bicycle train, or the fancy street bike. Bring someone who does not ride often on city streets. Decorate your bike. Enjoy the people watching.
ACTIVITIES TO CHECK-OUT IN THE PEDESTRIAN HUBS
Shasta Living Streets Freedom from Training Wheelsfor the littlest riders and their parents
Healthy Shasta Bicycle Blender
Shasta Safe Routes to School Riding course for young riders
Shasta Historical Society special feature – Redding Streets from the 1800s to Now
Museum of Northern California Art Bus. Activities for children of all ages. monca.org
Bicycle Decoration and Bicycle Parade at 11:30(ish)
Sequoia School Chamber Orchestra! 1:30
Sequoia Jazz Band!2:00
The always popularDJTwitch
KIXEfeatures for children
Lowe’s Living Street outdoor living room
Chalk Art
Street Games – feel free to bring your own!
Coffee and drinks by Scout Coffee
Bicycle deliveries bringing to-go lunch orders from nearby San Francisco Deli and Orchard Nutrition
MORE INFORMATION
If you would like to add an activity, or have any questions, please contact Cassie at cmcaleer@shastalivingstreets.org or talk to a real person at 530.355.2230.
Building quality of life for everyone: better bikeways, trails and walkable cities
