A downtown bike crawl

Posted on 21. Mar, 2010 by Tony Arranaga in News

Pub crawls along the light rail are a great way to get a group of friends together and experience what downtown Phoenix has to offer. In case you don’t know, a pub crawl is when a group travels from bar to bar using mass transit or some form of alternative transportation. Since the start of the light rail in 2008, many groups here in Phoenix have organized crawls as a way to socialize while others use the format to raise money for a cause.

There was a small army of bikes on the streets of downtown Phoenix on Friday night for a bike crawl organized by my friend Cassie.  Her sister Jaimee was in town tearin’ it up before her deployment to Iraq this week.  We had so much fun!  Cassie kept the bike crawl locations in the Roosevelt district of downtown Phoenix: Roosevelt  Tavern (3rd and Roosevelt), then to Lost Leaf (5th Street and Roosevelt), Carly’s Bistro (1st and Roosevelt), and finally Seamus McCaffrey’s (Central and Monroe).

Need suggestions on how to organize your own pub crawl?  First, pick a section of town with some bars that are relatively close in proximity to each other. You may even want to base your choices on which bars are having specials on the night of your crawl, or which ones are easiest to get to on foot or bike. Keep in mind you’ll need all the proper lights on your journey if you chose to ride a bike!  Next, send out an email to your friends, or if you’re looking to get a larger crowd going, try using a Facebook evite to spread the word. That should do it! If a pub crawl isn’t for you, try exploring your core by organizing a restaurant crawl, a boutique crawl, or even a coffee bar crawl. Have fun!

Tags: alternative transportation, mass transit