 The community of Walker is coming together to help make the city a more bike friendly area to live, work and visit. Our Sarah Winckelman takes us to see local leaders hit the trails for some hands-on learning. The leaders of Walker are off and pedaling towards a more bikeable community. Becoming more bikeable helps us to become healthier, we become more active, and we become safer on the roads using bicycles as a form of transportation. Making a community bikeable is just what it sounds like by making a clear and safe path for bicyclists in the community. Walker's very unique in that we have the trail systems available to us with the not only for our own residents in the Leech Lake area but also for the many, many tourists that come through and so we want to just make us more of a bike friendly community. Many local leaders learned how to identify real-world problems in the classroom and then they hopped on their bikes to get some hands-on experience. This is an exciting time to get people to ride bikes and learn some of the rules of roads and also identify some barriers that we might be able to pursue. The group went on a four-mile bike ride through town and made several stops along the way to take a survey of how comfortable and safe the route actually felt. There are a lot of passionate people that that want to do this. We've made some progress over the years with underpasses and a safe way to school and so we've got some things that are in place and we just want to do our best to continue to make it bigger and better for the years to come. For a community based on tourism and outdoor activities, a focus on a bike friendly community is a perfect way to shift gears. The way to bring communities together so when you come together to go on a bike ride it's really fun and engaging and brings the whole community together. With more knowledge, the community can now count on a future full of bike rides. Be safe, be predictable and have fun. Reporting in Walker, Sarah Winkelman, Lakeland News. The information at the workshop was provided by the Minnesota Department of Health MnDOT and Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.