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Bicycling, as well as walking/hiking for pleasure, has boomed during the 14 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The combination of fresh air, easy access to biking options and that many families already had bikes, even if infrequently used, has led to a huge increase in cycling by Americans and certainly San Joaquin County residents. Another big plus is that cyclists gain a fair amount of exercise in addition to the scenic pay-back.
The county is blessed by relatively safe, quiet places to pedal, graced by a year-round cycling climate, and flat to rolling terrain. If you have some experience and want to increase your mileage from 5 to 10 miles and more, the San Joaquin Bike Coalition and the Stockton Bike Club offer group rides, including many that pedal into wine country and the Sierra foothills. With National Bike Month coming in May, here are suggestions from local cyclists as to where, when and how to enjoy the sights outside your back door, from the seat of your bike.
University of the Pacific President Christopher Callahan has done many things during his career, but safecracking is not on his résumé.
So, unable to pry open an old safe that had been spotted languishing in a dark corner of Burns Tower’s basement, he called in the big guys: a fire crew from Stockton’s Fire Station No. 4, who used the “jaws of life” to preserve the contents inside.
“I took a quick peek and literally the first thing, there was a box and we took out the box, and there was the minutes right there and it said 1851 to 1854. So I had a pretty good sense of what we were looking at,” Callahan recalled of the late-March discovery. “And then I immediately was like, OK, let’s call in the pro. Let’s get Mike (Wurtz, head of special collections at Pacific) and he can do his thing. I was afraid I was going to mess up something.”
If you go to VisitStockton.org you’ll find a link to what they call the “12 most Instagram-Worthy Places in Stockton.” The list includes sites like the University of Pacific, the Stockton Arena, the Wat Dhammararam Buddhist Temple, Micke Grove Zoo (which, technically speaking, is considered Lodi) and others.
All the places on the list are certainly worth an Instagram picture and the list is a good start, but Stockton is such a diverse and interesting town that there are even more places that are “Instagram-able.” Some of them have been closed due to the pandemic but eventually they will open up again.