The Central Connecticut Bicycle Alliance and its partners are planning the Discover Hartford Bicycling and Walking Tour on Saturday, September 8th. The tour will have 10 and 25-mile bicycling options, as well as a 2-hour walking tour. 

The route, encompassing the entire city, will introduce the participants to places like the new indoor skating rink, major new commercial developments, arts venues, and historic places. 

The purpose of the event is to have fun while showing off the improvements in infrastructure, community organizations, and investment that have brought Hartford an enviable quality of life. The tour will demonstrate that an increasingly improved bicycling and walking environment is critical to sustain and augment those improvements. 

The CCBA is sponsoring the Discover Hartford Bicycle and Walking Tour because it believes by encouraging and developing alternative transportation modes the city will become a more viable and attractive place to live and visit. 

*NEW* Preliminary Tour Route Map - MAP LINK

Tour Registration:

• Register online or by mail until 8/4 - $27 (CCBA Member Price $22)
• Register online or by mail between 8/5 and 8/31 - $37 (CCBA Member Price $32)
• Register on 9/1 until day of the tour - $42 (CCBA Member Price $37)
• VIP Registration and Celebrity Tour - $75

Online Registration Coming in April.   Group discounts available (at least 10 for group rate) until 8/4.  Event limited to 5,000 participants - register early!

Discover Hartford Bicycling and Walking Tour Partners

Over 35 Partners and growing!

Jealous?  Want to get in on the action and partner with the Hartford Tour? 

Contact Alan Williams (860-232-5279).

1. Antiquarian and Landmarks Society 
2. Cedar Hill Cemetery Foundation 
3. Coalition to Strengthen Sheldon Charter Oak Neighborhoods (CSS/CON) 
4. Colt Gateway 
5. Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice 
6. Connecticut Creative Store/Hartford Botanical Gardens 
7. Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection 
8. East Coast Greenway Alliance 
9. Eastern Connecticut Resource Conservation and Development Team 
10. Ebony Horsewomen, Inc. (EHI) 
11. Greater Hartford Arts Council 
12. HART (Hartford Areas Rally Together) 
13. Hartford 2000 
14. Hartford Preservation Alliance 
15. Hartford Public Library 
16. Hartford Seminary 
17. Hispanic Health Council 
18. Knox Foundation 
19. Knox Parks Foundation 
20. Mark Twain House and Museum 
21. Menczer Museum of Medicine and Dentistry 
22. MetroHartford Alliance 
23. Neighborhoods of Hartford, Inc (Pride Blocks, Rising Star areas) 
24. Northeast Alternative Technology Marketplace 
25. Park River Watershed group 
26. Parkville merchants 
27. Real Artways (RAW) 
28. Riverfront Recapture 
29. Sierra Club Greater Hartford Group, Inner City Outings (ICO) 
30. Stowe Day House 
31. The Artists Collective 
32. The Trust for Public Land (TPL) - Parks for People Program 
33. Trinity College Community Skating Rink 
34. University of Hartford Music for a Change 
35. Youth United for Survival 

36. - AND MORE SIGNING UP EVERY WEEK -

Volunteer Registration:  

E-mail the event director to sign up as a volunteer.   Volunteers are needed for the committees planning the event and to assist on the day of the event.

Volunteer Meetings:

The critical pre-planning for this event is being done by four sub-committees - Media, Recruitment, Logistics, and Revenue.  Most of these sub-committees are meeting at least on a monthly basis and interested volunteers should contact the respective committee chairs, or attend a meeting to get more involved.

Stay tuned for more information!  

This tour information is preliminary.  Registration and final tour details will be published in April.