Trip into June: Truckee celebrates Bike Month with occasions, challenges, and neighborhood enjoyable

TRUCKEE, Calif. – The Town of Truckee proudly celebrates the third annual Truckee Bike Month this June, demonstrating its dedication to lively transportation, neighborhood connection, and environmental sustainability. Bicycling tremendously enhances the area’s high quality of life and well being. Mayor Anna Klovstad will formally proclaim June as “Truckee Bike Month” on the June 9 Town Council assembly.

The proclamation is scheduled to be introduced to Tahoe Donner Association, certainly one of Truckee’s largest leisure communities. Tahoe Donner Association performs a serious position within the space’s outside financial system, open-space preservation, and tourism. Its in depth path community connects riders to a number of the area’s hottest mountain biking routes.

This helps make Truckee a premier biking vacation spot.

While the League of American Bicyclists nationally acknowledges May as Bike Month, the Truckee/Tahoe area observes Bike Month in June to keep away from late-season inclement climate. For the previous 20 years, regional companions such because the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition have collaborated on a month-long programming sequence that promotes bicycling for recreation, commuting, and decreasing automobile journeys.

Truckee’s bicycle infrastructure, which incorporates miles of trails, bike lanes, and bike routes, offers year-round entry for residents and guests. By encouraging biking as a mode of journey, the Town goals to scale back air pollution, decrease congestion, restrict roadway put on, and foster stronger neighborhood connections.

Truckee Bike Month options quite a lot of neighborhood occasions and challenges designed to have interaction residents of all ages and talent ranges:

• Bike Month Bingo Challenge: Participants can full a bingo card by collaborating in numerous bike-related actions. Activities embrace exploring a brand new path, parking on the bike valet, testing a BCycle pedal-assist e-bike, and using round Donner Lake. A accomplished bingo earns a prize and a raffle entry. Finishing the whole card earns an extra raffle entry.
• Bike to School Day takes place on June 5, 2026. Families and college students are inspired to bike to highschool to rejoice wholesome habits and protected biking practices.
• Truckee Day Bike Path Cleanup: Join Truckee’s twenty third annual town-wide litter cleanup on Saturday, June 6. This yr, participate within the added bike path cleanup. Bike to the brand new DEWBEYÚMUWEɁ Park on West River Street between 9 a.m. and midday on Saturday, June 6, gather provides and Bike Month swag, and select any spot alongside the Legacy Trail to select up trash.
• Bike Kitchen Maintenance Clinic and Helmet Decorating takes place on June 11, 2026. Customize your helmet or get assist with fundamental repairs and be taught some restore abilities alongside the way in which. Mechanics from the Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition will help with easy repairs. These embrace flat tires, crooked wheels, brakes, shifting, caught or squeaky chains, and seat changes. Participants also can assist repair donated bikes whereas studying tune-and-repair abilities. Mechanics and adorning
  supplies can be obtainable on the Truckee Library from 3–5 pm.
• Bike Everywhere Day can be held on June 17, 2026. Residents are invited to pledge to experience their bikes for all journeys round city. Refuel stations can be obtainable at two places.
  o Eagle Plaza, on the nook of Donner Pass Road and Spring Street, could have a refuel station on June 17, 2026, from 3:30 pm to five:30 pm.
  o Bike Truckee, close to the Regional Park (10015 Palisades Drive, Suite A4), will provide a refuel station on June 17, 2026, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm.
  o Participants are inspired to go to a refuel station totally free water refills, air for his or her tires, and swag! All contributors in Bike Everywhere Day can be entered right into a raffle.
  o Safety stays a prime precedence all through the celebration. The Town reminds riders that the pace restrict for all units, together with e-bikes, on Truckee paved trails is 15 MPH. Riders ought to look ahead to path circumstances, crossings, different customers, and observe path etiquette.

Truckee Bike Month is made attainable by the beneficiant assist of the Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition, Upcycled Adventures, Coffeebar, Bike Truckee, Truckee Trails Foundation, Start Haus, Visit Truckee-Tahoe, Alibi Ale Works, Keep Truckee Green, and the Town of Truckee Transportation Division.

A full occasion calendar and downloadable bingo playing cards in English and Spanish can be found at http://www.keeptruckeegreen.org/bikemonth. Community members are inspired to share their tales and photographs by utilizing the hashtag #TruckeeBikeMonth on Facebook and Instagram.