Richard Raphael
Schimpff, Jeff A wrote:
Don't know about Lambeau, but as long as you bring up bicycling to sports arenas inhabited by ailing professional teams...
The Brewers' Miller Park (aka "New multi-county taxpayer-supported private sports facility) does have bike racks, and next to exclusive in-building parking for executives and players that I suspect exists, it is the best parking on the grounds. Much closer that the vast acreage devoted to motor vehicle parking, and just a few dozen feet from the main entrances. The racks have low wheel troughs, and a raised arm to lock to. With a U-lock you can lean your paint job away from contact with the bar. We saw only space for 12 bikes, and counted only three other bikes besides our group's three, while more than 27,000 people attended. A driver of a golf cart taking people from the handicapped parking area to accessible ramps in the stadium noted that most people "just lock their bikes to the (very substantial) fence" that keeps dazed fans from falling off the raised promenade running along about 1/3 of the stadium's circumference.
Access from the southwest via Greenfield is through the VA Center grounds, which at 6:30 Friday evening is practically devoid of all motor traffic - There were just a trickle of fans from the nearby residential area walking to the stadium. I have been told that the Glacial Drumlim Trail does or will in the future or almost meets the New Berlin Trail, which has a connector to Greenfield Park. From the Park, you can follow the County's Oak Leaf Trail (some trafficky sections, but also a fair amount of pleasant parkway boulevards) to Jacobus Park and then a small golf course just north of the stadium, then cross Bluemound and plunge down into the Menominee Valley on Mitchell Blvd. to the stadium grounds.
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