Planning a "Trail Sampler" Trip in about April?? Ideas and suggestions requested.
11-09-10, 06:13 PM
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Ohio has a great system of rails-to-trails, pretty much all over the state. The nicest is probably the Little Miami Scenic Trail, which runs from Cincinnati to Xenia and over to Dayton and up to Yellow Springs if you can produce a voter registration card to prove you're a Democrat (Yellow Springs is the most in-your-face leftist town I've ever been in) . The state of Ohio will even send you one free map of the complex if you ask for it. Also, someone has catelogued the entire route on the Interwebs. All rails-to-trails are by definition pretty easy going.
Doesn't Xenia bill itself as the bicycle capital of the world or something like that? I passed by there a while back and I seem to remember seeing a sign to that effect.
Edit: Ok, I just looked it up. I guess it's the midwest they claim to be the bicycle capital of, not the world.
Edit: Ok, I just looked it up. I guess it's the midwest they claim to be the bicycle capital of, not the world.
When you're finished with riding in the Xenia area just drive 15 miles east to Dayton where you can pick up several more trails. Send me your address and I'll send you a map of all the trails in our area.....but you have to promise to contact me if you ride in the area
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11-09-10, 07:36 PM
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If you're going as far as Ottawa, on your way there or the way back, be sure to drop by and visit your old pals, tsl and cranky here in R-Town. The Erie Canalway Trail is paved here, and intersects with the Genesee Riverway trail which heads smack into the heart of downtown (and the world famous Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, a great lunch stop).
EDIT: Whoops! Wrong Ottawa. Who knew there was one in KS? The real one, in Ontario and capital of Canada, you'd be just about the right time for the Tulip Festival.
Okay, if you're heading to Ohio or PA, Upstate NY isn't that far away...
EDIT: Whoops! Wrong Ottawa. Who knew there was one in KS? The real one, in Ontario and capital of Canada, you'd be just about the right time for the Tulip Festival.
Okay, if you're heading to Ohio or PA, Upstate NY isn't that far away...
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11-09-10, 07:37 PM
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If you're going as far as Ottawa, on your way there or the way back, be sure to drop by and visit your old pals, tsl and cranky here in R-Town. The Erie Canalway Trail is paved here, and intersects with the Genesee Riverway trail which heads smack into the heart of downtown (and the world famous Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, a great lunch stop).
11-09-10, 09:11 PM
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It looks like one of our first stops may be this trail in Kansas - the prairie spirit rail trail:
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https://www.traillink.com/trail/prairie-spirit-rail-trail.aspx
Anyone been there?
It looks like one of our first stops may be this trail in Kansas - the prairie spirit rail trail:
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https://www.traillink.com/trail/prairie-spirit-rail-trail.aspx
Anyone been there?
). If it was me, I would give it a shot. Also I HAVE ridden the Tunnel Hill Trail in S. Illinois recently and it is pretty nice. Stay in Harrisburg on one end and ride to the tunnel, then stay in Vienna (that's VYENNA by the way) the next night and ride to the tunnel.
11-09-10, 09:20 PM
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If you are near the Atlanta area you should try the paved Silver Comet Trail, especially from Rockmount east toward Atlanta. Don't go west out of Rockmount though... too steep. The SCT is maintained nearly like a golf course!
11-09-10, 09:54 PM
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rocheport the bluffs to east are wonderful
columbia (there is a 8 mile spur to katy)
jeff city
hermann wine area
st charles historic town (I just heard a new trail extension east has just been completed)
11-12-10, 10:18 PM
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April in southern Ohio (near the Little Miami Bike Trail) is still early springtime. Temperatures can be in the 30s to the 70s. Last year, my April rides were mostly in the 50-70 temperature range.
April 5, 2009 SW Ohio's Stonelick Creek valley:
April 26, 2008 along the Ohio River (Route 8 KY):
April 5, 2009 SW Ohio's Stonelick Creek valley:
April 26, 2008 along the Ohio River (Route 8 KY):
