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Lawrence County, IN, US

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Bloomington Indiana

Century Rides of Southern Indiana (100mi)

156 km

1 400 m

A "drive and ride" off the beaten path southeast of Bloomington.

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This is a "drive and ride" for the Bloomington Bicycle Club.  It starts in the town of Heltonville about 25 miles south of Bloomington.  One can get there by driving south on IN-446 and turning right on IN-58.  We meet at the old grade school.

Like many small towns in Indiana, the town's main form of entertainment and society is all about basketball with the backboards nailed on sides of barns and garages.  Just watch the movie "Hoosiers" and you'll get it.  Well, Heltonville was made famous by a kid named Damon Bailey, who was recruited by Bobby Knight of Indiana University since about his sixth grade. At the start scope out the @photo[monument](1127459) to Damon.

We're headed to Houston in a round about way by weaving in and out of IN-58 and IN-135 and actually enter the burg a second time.  We climb up on to a ten mile wide plateau of Clear Springs and then plummet back down to Ewing on the White River.  There's a nice deli just in Ewing that is open off and on, but there are other restaurants in Brownstown.

When flatlanders hear "skyline" it only means one thing.  Climbing and we'll be doing that up to Skyline Park and the switchback way is the easiest of the three ways to climb to the park.  The reward is the @photo[overlook](1127462).

Be cautious departing Skyline Park as we leave it using the steepest path down to a flood plain that floods out Medora pretty much every year.     Check out the double arch buttressed @photo[covered bridge](1127728) - a work of art!

The flood plain ends as we climb up the Medora Grade onto old highway 50 to Leesville. Then for some more fun we weave US-50 until we get back to Heltonville.    You now know what's off the beaten path.

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