Montgomery County Family Bike Festival

Sunday, September 14, 2025 - 1:00pm
The Square at Rockville Town Center

Wish you could get around with your family by bike? Curious to learn more about cycling with kids in MoCo?

Come to the first ever Montgomery County Family Biking Festival to explore opportunities for family and youth cycling.

Let us know if you can make it or if you’re available to volunteer during the event by signing up! Have questions or want to table at the event? Please contact Peter Gray at Peter@waba.org.

What to expect during the event:

Electric Bike and cargo bike test rides on protected bike lanes
Free kids helmet and bike lights (as supplies last)
Bike decorating and balance bike parade
Expertise from community groups and local cyclists
Bike safety checks from the Rockville Bike Hub

Borrow a bike for a test ride and ask about family biking options:

Bike Center
Bunch Bike
Good Vibes
More to come soon!

Learn from and meet the following partner organizations:

Rockville Bike Hub
Maryland State Highway Administration
Maryland State Highway Safety Office
Washington Area Bicyclist Association
More to come soon!

By registering for this event you agree to follow WABA's Code of Conduct.

More about Complete State Roads: Montgomery County

WABA’s Complete State Roads initiative aims to remake state highways in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties as complete streets, boosting safety and mobility for people who walk, bike, roll, or use transit as well as for drivers and their passengers.

The Complete State Roads–Montgomery County report is available at waba.org/stateroads and you can watch a presentation delivered about it at WABA’s 4th Great Montgomery County Bike Summit in 2023.

As part of the Complete State Roads initiative, WABA backed the development of legislation for introduction in the 2024 Maryland legislative session.

More about Montgomery County Equitable Bikeways

Montgomery County's piecemeal approach to building bike infrastructure is not aligned with its stated climate, safety, and equity goals,

In 2021, WABA assembled a proposal that prioritized projects in the county's existing (and laudabe!) Bicycle Master Plan within county-designates Equity Focus Areas. You can read the report here. With around $110 million, the County could build all of the Tier 1 bikeway projects in most of the equity emphasis areas in the County. This dollar amount spread over the FY 23-28 six year capital budget period is consistent with current commitments to biking and walking

More about Complete Streets

Complete Streets are streets designed to accommodate all users, and that prioritize historically underinvested modes of transportation like transit, walking, and biking. An incomplete street might lack adequate sidewalks, low-stress bike infrastructure, or safe and comfortable access to transit.

Effective Complete Streets policies change the way a jurisdiction plans and builds transportation infrastructure—sidewalks, low stress bike infrastructure, and transit should be included in any new or rebuilt street by default, rather than as an add-on when there's space or demand.

While most regional jurisdictions have a Complete Streets policy of some sort, they lack teeth and permit transportation departments to continue to build streets that put cars first and squeeze other modes into the margins.

More about Family Biking

More about Advocacy

WABA fights for a region where biking, walking and transit are the best ways to get around.

We educate policymakers and organize grassroots advocates for to speak up for safer places to bike and walk; and for laws and policies that protect people who are walking and biking, reduce dangerous driving, and facilitate changes to the built environment.

More about Outreach

WABA runs a variety of outreach programs that create opportunities for people across the region to join the bicycling community.