For the 2nd time, Cycle Oregon has chose to use our little town for one of it's over-night stops. If you are not familiar with Cycle Oregon, you can go to http://www.cycleoregon.com/ and learn more. Our little town swells to almost three times our normal population and back to normal within a 24-hour time period. It's neat to see such a HUGE production run so well and organized. It also gives local youth an opportunity for some community service as well as an opportunity for revenue for local businesses. My sister's little Bed & Breakfast is booked through the event
The town goes "all-out" when something this big hits Main St. and every business has some kind of "welcome" sign up.
The Elementary school football field as well as our brand new athletic complex (track, football field and concession building) are used by the cyclists, as well as the volunteer staff. These pictures show the HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of tents that are set up. This is only the volunteer staff tents (2 rows of each color, 3 colors, about 50 tents in each row, making approximately 300 tents just in this field alone).
They even come around into the recess playground at the Elementary school. These are tents that some of the directors, "bosses" and supervisors use. There is also 3 semi-trailers that are shower units, a huge food vendor area, an entertainment stage with music to help the cyclists unwind from a long, tiring day, and several miscellaneous booths, such as bike repair, bike accessories, a group of massage therapists that travel the entire route with the cyclists, and medical tents for the unfortunate, yet inevitable.
This is the road leading to the tent/events site. This is a new "addition" this time around. It reminds us of "Olympic Alley" but I thought it was very pretty, rather inviting, and added a colorful touch to our historic little town.
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