Originally Posted by
delbiker1
The Delmarva peninsula is a pretty good area for bicycling, more so for road riding than MUP or off road. It certainly is flat! If one stays away from the beach resorts, there are a lot of rural areas with generally well maintained roads, quite a few of them being chip and seal. Off season, the beach resort areas offer nice, scenic rides. Weekends , especially holiday weekends, are pretty busy all year now. Though it is much better than in the past, there are still a lot of vehicle operators that do not like to share the road with bicyclists. There is so much development, I prefer to call it destruction, we now have traffic issues all year and it is going to keep getting worse. Road construction is becoming a continuous impediment to getting anywhere.
We make an annual casual biking/eating/wine and beer tasting group pilgrimage to Cape May, NJ, via Lewes, Delaware and the Ferry each spring right before Memorial day and beach traffic sets in.
Two years ago the trip north was terrible due to construction in Delaware and Maryland (both main and backup routes) that had miles long backups. Last year we went up the 'highway of hell' (I-95 in MD with insane speeds, sudden backups, and wild weaving) and cut over through NJ scenic rodeo country to Cape May County. DC area Beltway traffic and MD/DE construction make it really hard to hit our greatly preferred Lewes-Cape May Ferry reserved departure times without leaving 2-3 hours earlier than before. We returned via the Ferry and back roads in Del and MD.