Halifax Waterfront, May 4, 2025 @9:30am

Ride starts at: Halifax Central Library, on Spring Garden Rd

We’re collaborating with Jane’s Walk Halifax. Check out their schedule for more great weekend events.

Please complete our waiver (once per person, per year)

What to expect on the ride

• We will meet at 9:30am and the ride will start at 10:00am
• Kids and their grown-ups will ride their bikes (or scooters) together, on multi-use pathways and city streets.
• Rides are planned, led and marshalled by community volunteers
• Snacks and drinks are provided at the end of the ride
• Meeting places and routes will be specified for each ride, including a map and turn-by-turn directions.
• We’ll have activities to help you meet and connect with new friends and familiar faces, and we’ll have prizes for the kids as well!
• If we need to cancel due to weather conditions, we will post a notice on this website by 7:30am on the day of the ride.
• Please help protect our community from COVID-19. Our rides and activities take place entirely outdoors, but we do ride as a group and share outdoor public space with many others. Masks are welcomed, but please stay home if you feel unwell.
• If you have any questions at all, please contact KidicalMassHfx@gmail.com

Ride Specific Info

• Our meeting point is the front entrance of the Halifax Central Library
• The library is not open at this time, but we will have a few amusements (sidewalk chalk, bubbles) set up to help keep the kids busy before the ride.
• There are bus stops on Spring Garden Rd near the starting point of the ride.
• There is paid parking in the parking garage attached to the Central Library (entrance on Queen St at DaCosta Row), and in the Dalhousie surface parking lot at the same entrance.
• We’ll be riding to the Halifax waterfront using a mix of roads, multi-use paths, and a bit of the waterfront boardwalk
• We’ll be travelling downhill using short stretches of Bishop St and Terminal Rd, with steep slopes. Please keep this in mind for any of your young riders.
• There are protected bike lanes on both Hollis St and Lower Water St, which you may choose to use during the ride. However, these lanes are sometimes obstructed by vehicles or debris. Due to the size of our group, we are planning to use the roadway on both Hollis and Lower Water.
• Our destination is the Submarine playground, outside the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
• See the map below for more details of the route
• There are washrooms located inside the museum, and port-a-potties on the waterfront near the Salt Yard.
• We’ll have snacks and prizes at the destination, including slushies courtesy of I Heart Bikes.
• We’re collaborating with Jane’s Walk Halifax for this month’s ride. We’ll be giving away a copy of the children’s book Walking in the City with Jane at the end of the ride.