I am glad the child is ok.

I love to ride the bike paths. But I've learned to bike on the weekdays when the trails aren't being used by family groups or during the dead of winter or on a real rainy/cold day. Years ago I was on a bike path in a nearby state park. I slowed down to 8 mph because there was a girl on a bike off the trail. She looked right at me then pedaled her bike crossways onto the trail and stopped, blocking the trail completely and still looking at me, so I either hit her or go off the path and take a tumble. I went off the path and took the fall. As I was getting up the mother came over to me, screaming in a frenzy, her face contorted in rage, spittle flying out of her mouth, eyes all bugged out, and yelled a lot of filthy words at me in front of her gaggle of children. I got back on my bike and rode away from her, figuring she must be mentally ill or mentally deficit in some way, continued to ride inside the park, and coming back on another loop, a good mile from the incident, there she is with her gaggle of children and starts screaming at me again, real gutter language. I found a park ranger and reported the lady. It is why I no longer ride the bike trails anywhere on a weekend.

However the most fun bike trails I've found, complete with water faucets, porta potties and benches along the trails, is in Idaho around Ketchum, near Sun Valley. Lots of road cyclists on those trails, and the walkers are real respectful of the cyclists, and everyone seems to know the trail rules, like single-file to the right. One morning I was up at dawn to ride the trail between Hailey and Ketchum, and the trail was filled with cyclists commuting to work in Ketchum; it was a fantastic sight.