paulb_in_bkln

Is there any good bike route, vicinity of the Hudson River towns Piermont and Nyack to Suffern/Sloatsburg in order to ride on Seven Lakes Drive?

dendawg

If you like climbing you could take bike 9 to Gate Hill Rd into Harriman Park, then Lake Wech Drive, or 106 down to Seven Lakes

paulb_in_bkln

That's quite a different ride than I was thinking of, but a good alternative as there isn't any nice route west from Piermont or Nyack to Suffern. I've asked many people with some Harriman State Park knowledge why there is no way to cross over the parkway from Haverstraw to Tiorati Brook Rd, but no one ever gets back to me.

dendawg

The problem is Seven Lakes Drive crosses and becomes part of the Palisades Pkwy for a short distance, and riding on or crossing the parkway on a bicycle is illegal. So one can ride Seven lakes from Sloatsburg to the Long Mtn traffic circle, but not legally ride across it to get to 9W. There are other ways to get into the western end of the park, like riding over Little Tor to get to County Rd 98, and then a steep climb to where it merges with 106 and enters the park. Just can't remember the actual road names off the top of my head. A search on Strava ir Ride With GPS might give more insight. The other problem is to get to the start of Seven Lakes in Sloatsburg will involve riding 59 and 17 for part of the way.

paulb_in_bkln

I once overshot onto the parkway. It's an easy mistake to make! The ranger who stopped me was almost purple with anger. If he'd been a cop I'd probably have been arrested. I backtracked a couple hundred yards to the section of 7LD that goes past Perkins Rd, and on to the Bear Mt Inn (I wanted to cross the bridge for the ride up to Cold Spring).