There are four route options this year: Ten Mile Fun Ride: This beautiful, scenic ride is on a level, extra-smooth blacktop, Twenty-Mile Ride: This ride provides a great variety of scenery for a relatively short Sixty-Three Mile Ride: The sixty-three mile riders will head east on Hwy. 78 to the small communityof Milburn. At Milburn they will turn north on 48A, cross beautiful Blue River, and proceed north through the former Chickasaw freedmen community of Sardis. They will continue north on Wiley Road through rugged granite boulder country to Hwy. 7. They will head west on Hwy. 7, again crossing Blue River [there are restroom facilities on the south side of road at the Blue River Fishing Area]. They will ride on Hwy. 99* for less than a mile until the ride rejoins Hwy. 7 and heads west through Reagan and the National Fish Hatchery where the endangered paddlefish and alligator snapping turtle are being raised for release back into areas those species once inhabited. At Hwy. 1 the ride turns back south on paved shoulders to the small community of Ravia, and then east on Hwy. 22 to Tishomingo. The Century Ride: This bicycle ride has always been the "Alfalfa Bill Century Ride " with a full 100-mile ride for those who want to accomplish that bicycling Alfalfa Bill "Power" Cookies: As always, our famous, homemade, Alfalfa Bill "power" cookies will be served at
Power Cookie Recipe-for making your own. The Tee Shirt: Another Alfalfa Bill Ride tradition that makes this ride just a little different than most Registration Form Name (Print)____________________________________________________________________________ Address _______________________________________________________________________________ City______________________________________________________________________________ Zip_______________ T-Shirt Size: [Circle one] S M L XL XXL Telephone E-Mail_____________________________ Route [Circle One] 10 mile ride 20 mile ride 63 mile ride Century Ride Mail Registration to: Fran Morrell Rider's Signature___________________________________________ If Under 18, Parent/Guardian's Signature__________________________________________ Maps of the Ride Area
The Twenty-Third
Alfalfa Bill Century Bike Ride
October 24, 2009, 9:00 A.M., Pennington Park,
Tishomingo, OK
[See the photo display of the 2008 century riders]
Click to view our 2008 sponsors.
tree-lined road out to the Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge and back. In addition to
beautiful scenery and wildlife, there are historical markers indicating the sites of
an early Chickasaw school and the cemetery of early settlers. You can also walk or ride
on the Craven Nature Trail. The Refuge headquarters is located on the original historic Washita Farms. That area has an arboretum, a visitors' center, and a bird observation tower. Its most recent attraction is a museum that depicts sharecropper life on the Washita Farms.
ride. Riders head east out of Tishomingo and turn north on newly paved Bullard Chapel road. At the entrance to the Blue River Public Hunting and Fishing Area the ride turns west onto Blue River Road. This region was an area of dairy farming in the 1940s and 1950s. You might still see a few holsteins. At Hwy. 99, the ride turns back south to Tishomingo and Pennington Park.
*[An alternative to the sixity-three ride would be to continue south on Hwy. 99 for a forty-seven-mile ride].
milestone, whether for the first or the 100th time. It is not a race and the only prize is
your personal sense of achievement [and your picture posted on this website for the next year]. Riders come from Arkansas, Texas, and all over Oklahoma just to ride this century. This year the century riders head east out of town with the other riders but they turn south on Hwy. 22 where they will skirt the north side of Tishomingo Wildlife Refuge. The refuge surrounds the Cumberland Pool of Lake Texoma. Here they will ride the "seven hills," and part of the Twelve Mile Prairie before they reach the small hamlet of Nida. They will turn north on Hwy. 78 through Emet [where the Chickasaw White House is located] to Milburn. Here they head north, cross Blue River, and then ride east on Hwy. 48A to Coleman, a former cotton-producing center. At Coleman they will ride north on Hwy. 48 through some beautiful country to the historic Chickasaw community of Wapanucka and turn west onto Hwy. 7. [There are restrooms available at the filling station/quick stop in Wapanucka and at the Blue River Public Hunting Area just before the Blue River bridge].They will ride on Hwy. 7 all the way to Hwy. 99, then south on Hwy. 99 for less than a mile, and continue west on Hwy. 7 through the small community of Reagan, home of a re-created 19th century western town, Sipokni West, and the Tishomingo National Fish Hatchery. At the hatchery they have developed special breeding programs for the endangered paddlefish and alligator snapping turtle to reintroduce those species to their native habitats. At Hwy. 1 the ride turns back south to the small community of Ravia, and then east on Hwy. 22 to Tishomingo before doing the final twenty-mile loop by going east on Hwy. 78 to Bullard Chapel and Blue River roads and coming back to Tishomingo on Hwy. 99.
All four rides are on paved, rural, lightly traveled roads. [See the area map at the
bottom of the page.] Abundant rest stops and sag wagons will be available.
all the rest stops along with fruit, water, and pickles. If you have never tasted these
"alfalfa bill" ride cookies you don't know how good a cookie can taste, or how much fun
a bicycle ride can be.
rides, is a quality, long-sleeved, tee shirt. It will be provided to all pre-registered riders
and is available on a first-come, first-served basis the morning of the ride. [We'll even
mail you your shirt free if you register and then can't make the ride. We told you that
this is an extra-special ride].
To pre-register, mail the registration form below with a $20.00 check or money order
by October 9, 2009 to : Fran Morrell, Tishomingo Development Team, 106 So. Byrd,
Tishomingo, Oklahoma 73460. For more information call: (580) 371-3358 (Ask for Fran)
or e-mail her:
franmorrell@tishomingo.com After Oct. 9 registration is $25.00.
State_____________________________________________________________________________
106 South Byrd
Tishomingo, OK 73460
(580)371-3358 franmorrell@tishomingo.com
Disclaimer: Neither the Tishomingo Development Team nor any other individual or organization
assumes any responsibility for any damages, injury or other problems which arise directly or indirectly
from anyone's participation in this event.
The Alfalfa Bill Century Bike Ride
The 2009 Ride again has some great rides in beautiful country on well-paved country roads. We are not the biggest but we sure put on a good bike ride.
