Neighborhood Bicycle Tours
Free guided bicycle tours are led by trained guides who explain the architectural features and history during stops at significant buildings on the tour.
Each bike tour is approximately 1-2 miles and lasts about 60 minutes. Stroll bike tours start at the Post Office parking lot on the corner of Third Street and Court Street. Information is available at the Stroll Heritage Plaza Information Booth at 2nd and Main Streets.
Bring your own bicycle and your helmet; all riders must wear their helmet.
Victorian homes, garden cottages, Craftsman bungalows, and Tudors! These wonderful styles of architecture provide Woodland with unique and well-preserved neighborhoods reflecting changing tastes of residential fashion.
Bike Tour #1 (College & 1st Street Neighborhoods) starts 9:00 a.m., helmets required
This tour covers the College and First Street neighborhoods at the heart of Woodland’s Victorian-era beginning. Woodland’s most dramatic homes are featured with ornately decorated Victorian gingerbread and classical verticality. These were the dream homes of their day (~1875-1890)! Transitional homes featuring Prairie, Craftsman bungalows, Cape Cod and Federal Revival styles are also highlighted showing the evolution of tastes at the start of the 20th century.
Bike Tour #2 (Beamer Park & the Motroni Era) starts 10:00 a.m., helmets required
This tour covers the Beamer Park neighborhood North of Main Street. At the turn of the 20th Century, Woodland was expanding. Woodland had emerged from its Victorian beginnings. Modern home styles were in vogue. Beamer Park was Woodland’s first formal real estate development, beginning about 1915. The Palm Avenue section starts at the original Beamer family farmhouse with some original adobe brick and later New Orleans style porches. "Contemporary" (1917-1930) construction shows Bungalow, Center Hall Colonial and Prairie influences. Joseph Motroni was a popular and acclaimed Woodland contractor (1929-1940). Picturesque examples of his Tudor, English Cottage, Spanish and Mediterranean Revival style designs are highlighted on Keystone and nearby side streets.
See you there!
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