Summer 2025 Family Bike Ride
Sunday July 13th, 2025 @ 3:30PM
Memorial Drive in front of JFK Park; Cambridge
Join us for the 5th Annual Summer Family Bike Ride! Featuring community, a safe curated ride, the brand newly constructed Arsenal Park playground, ice cream, crafts stations, face painting, bubbles, and the Family Bike Ride collection of outdoor play equipment.
Parents must accompany children at all times.
Registration: click here. Save the confirmation email so you can edit your registration later if need be.
There is no fee to register, event is open to public, donations are encouraged to support Family Bike Ride operations. We are a parent organized group and this event costs money to produce. We receive some support from sponsors but rely on participant financial support as well.
Schedule:
3:30PM Gather on Memorial Drive in front of JFK. There will be no portable restroom for our brief time at the start location, so make sure to take care of business before leaving home.
3:50AM Remarks
04:00PM The ride is a safe 2.8 mile ride on closed to cars Memorial Drive and the Greenough Greenway, with marshals at 2 auto intersections.
Please ride slow, yield to pedestrians, stay to the right, give space to other riders, pass on the left. Parents please coach your kids in these rules.
04:15PM to whenever play at Arsenal Park on the brand new playground and splash pad (bring water clothes) and with our own play equipment. Plus face painting, crafts activities, bubbles. The city restroom will be open.
04:45PM eat ice cream purchased from Moozy's (we will have a non dairy option too)
There is no group ride back, families depart on their own.
Photos of route, Arsenal Playground and past events on Memorial Drive.
Want to stay in Watertown afterwards to have dinner? Here are some suggestions for places your family may enjoy:
Mighty Squirrel Brewing Company
Dining establishments at Arsenal Mall such as Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napolitano, ButterBird, Pokeworks, Chipotle, Shake Shack.
Green Peapod (American Chinese)
House is Hafeez (Persian)
Joyful Garden (Chinese)
Olespana (Spanish)
Red Lentil (vegan)
What da Chick (Thai style fried chicken)
These options won't be open after the ride but you may want to check out next time you come to Watertown:
Uncommon Grounds (diner)
Fordee's (Lebanese)