RIDERS ASSOCIATION OF TRIUMPH
MERRITT ISLAND WILD LIFE PRESERVE
JANUARY 20th 2008
This ride is about 145 miles and 4 hours long including stops.
We will meet at the Bob Evans located off I-4 at the Lake Mary exit at 8:00 am for breakfast. We will leave around 9:00 am. If you do not want to eat, you can always just come and join us until we leave or make sure you are there before 8:45. Please make sure you have topped off your gas tank prior to arriving at the restaurant.
Leaving Bob Evans, we will make a right heading east on Lake Mary Blvd. Continue until you reach Country Club Road (school is on right) make a left. Stay on County Club, it will bear to the right and becomes C15. Continue until you reach stop sign, which is H.E. Thomas Jr. Pkwy. Make right and then a quick left at stop light (Upsala).
Continue until you see sign for 15 north and make left. Stay on 15 until you reach 17/92, make left.
Stay on 17/92 until you reach stop light @ Dirksen Road, make right. When you reach light at Main Street, (light at Children’s home) make right.
Continue until you reach dead end at 415 and make left. Stay on 415 and go straight through light at SR 44. At next blinking light (across from Cabbage Patch), (Pioneer Trail) make right. Stay on Pioneer until you reach light at Sugarmill Drive where will stop at a Texaco for a rest stop.
Leaving station, make a left back onto Sugarmill Drive until it dead ends at 44, make left.
At Mission Drive (just past Denny’s with a Walgreen’s on corner) make right. Stay on Mission until it dead-ends at Indian River Blvd/SR 442. make left. Continue until you reach US1, make right.
Continue on US1 until you see sign for Merritt Island Wild Life Preserve, make left. Continue about 19 miles down road and make a right, (there’s a light there). Go about 2 miles and on the left is the entrance to the Visitors Center. We will stop there for about 15-30 minutes.
Back at main road, make left. When you reach US1, make left. At 3rd light, JCT 405 make right.
Continue until you reach 50 and make right. At this point, if you want, you can stop for lunch before breaking up to go home. Riders living in Orlando & points south can stay on 50 and pick up the East/West or the Greenbelt (both are toll roads).
Riders heading north of Orlando should go to Ft. Christmas Road and make right.
Stay on Ft. Christmas until you reach stop sigh at Lake Mills Road, make right.
At Brumley road, make left.
At stop sign (Avenue H) make right.
At next stop sign (Snowhill Road) make right. Stay on Snowhill until you reach the stop sign CR425 make right. At 46, make left.