The Tour de Sprawl 2003 - Saving Open Spaces

Every day, 60 acres of Open Space are lost to development in the metropolitan area.
How can you help?

Join the Sierra Club for our 8th Annual Tour de Sprawl - an innovative and exciting bicycle tour through the Twin Cities.

September 28, 2003
Anoka County, Minnesota
Registration 11:00am
Rally for Springbrook Nature Center 12:00
Tour de Sprawl 12:30pm

What is the Tour de Sprawl?

The Tour de Sprawl is a bike ride like no other...

The Sierra Club's eighth annual Tour de Sprawl combines a scenic bike ride with seven educational stops. Take the afternoon of Sunday, September 28th to enjoy a leisurely ride while exploring first hand how suburban development is changing the face of the Twin Cities.

Join us as we discover Anoka County and the communities of Fridley, Coon Rapids and Anoka. We'll begin at noon in Fridley with a rally to help save the magnificent Springbrook Nature Center. Our ride will take us through the heart of Coon Rapids and Anoka and end with a community gathering at the confluence of the scenic Rum and Mississippi rivers in Anoka. Along the way, we'll visit beautiful and endangered open spaces and see some of the best community development projects in Minnesota.

Just as important, you'll get a chance to enjoy a serene, leisurely bike ride along the banks of the Mississippi river as our Minnesota summer comes to a close. The Tour de Sprawl truly is a ride like no other...

We hope to see you at our kick-off rally beginning at noon on Sunday, September 28th at The Springbrook Nature Center in Fridley, MN.

General Information

More information on the tour, directions and start times is available on our General Information page.

Where will the Tour take us?

Take a 'Virtual Tour de Sprawl'. Click on a stop below to view our route map and learn more about each site. Get an in-depth look at what each stop has to offer with beautiful photographs, statistics and local history! Learn what makes the Tour de Sprawl such a special event...

Want to know more?

For more information, please contact:
Trevor Russell - Open Space Preservation Organizer at The Sierra Club.
2327 E. Franklin Avenue #1, Minneapolis MN 55406-1024
Phone: (612) 659-9124 Email: trevor.russell@sierraclub.org

Sponsored by The Sierra Club, The Alliance for Metropolitan Stability, The Friends of the Mississippi River, and Transit for Livable Communities