HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Biking Across Kansas riders will descend on Hutchinson Tuesday as the 49th annual ride stops here overnight for the first time this century.
The planned route will bring the riders into town on 4th Avenue and then up Washington Street to Harley's Bicycles on 7th Avenue.
The street there will be closed and vendors will be set up all day until 5 p.m.
There will be bike racks on 7th to accommodate as many bikes as possible.
The overnight stop for the riders is at the Salthawk Activity Center at Hutch High.
Shuttle buses will run from the SAC to downtown that evening, so that riders can grab something to eat.
This year is the fourth time BAK has gone through Hutchinson, but only its second time as an overnight stop. The other was in 1999.