We tested two options to get to Grounds for Sculpture using the D&R Canal towpath. One is much better.
I’ve long thought about biking to Grounds for Sculpture, a sculpture garden in Hamilton, N.J. started by Seward Johnson, a J&J heir and sculptor. But I didn’t like the routes Google Maps suggested, and then there is the industrial area around it…
Continue reading “The best way to bike to Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton”Some kid-friendly bike rides in central New Jersey … also good for adults who prefer biking on trails instead of with traffic.
So you’re looking for a new place to ride your bike but don’t want to deal with traffic? Or you’re encouraging someone to bike who gets nervous around traffic? You need some kid-friendly options?
Central New Jersey has some great choice, and more trails are coming (it’s just not a fast process, unfortunately). I think these five six are fabulous; I hope you’ll love them too. I’ve listed them in no particular order and updated them for 2025.
Of course there are more trails than just these, so keep exploring and add your favorite to the comments section.
Continue reading “Expanded: 6 great one-day bike rides on central New Jersey trails”These bike overnights are all trail or mostly trails. Trips range from one night to closer to a week.
I started this list with 5 favorite DIY bike overnights using trails or mostly trails and (important for me) easily reached from New Jersey. Now it’s 2025, and my list has grown to 7.
More trails are coming, so biking within a day’s drive of New Jersey will only get better.
Continue reading “An updated list of 7 great bike-trail overnights within easy reach of New Jersey”Two easy options to bike to the Plainsboro Preserve.
Not every bike ride needs to be 50 miles, or even 30 miles. This is a family-friendly ride done with my neighbors in mind, one that gets you across Plainsboro to the New Jersey Audubon Society’s Plainsboro Preserve and almost 1,000 acres of preserved land.
Continue reading “How to bike to the Plainsboro Preserve”The traffic-free route from East Hartford to Willimantic on the Charter Oak Greenway and Hope River Trail.
Take a look at this just-updated map of Connecticut’s Charter Oak and Hop River trails.
You can ride traffic-free from East Hartford all the way to Willimantic — just wow! (OK, it looks like there might the tiniest section on the road.) That’s about 26.2 miles, or the length of a marathon for my runner friends.
Continue reading “This updated Connecticut trail map makes my 2021 ride list”The D&;R Canal and the Lawrence Hopewell Trail get you within 30 minutes by bike of River Horse Brewing in Ewing, New Jersey.
Time for another “weird beer” ride. This time we decided to try one of the big boys.
Continue reading “A bike ride to River Horse Brewing in Ewing, New Jersey”The “Fraud Street Run” is a great opportunity to check out some Philadelphia trails.
Should anyone be surprised that someone came up with the crazy inspiration of a route between these two Philadelphia news-making sites in this crazy election month?
Continue reading “Four Seasons (Total Landscaping) to Four Seasons (Hotel) — a Philadelphia bike ride”It’s not as daunting as you might think.
Biking to Philadelphia on the New Jersey side has long intrigued me, especially after having ridden to Philly on the Pennsylvania side. So when a group a sister has started riding with announced a ride from Trenton to Camden and then over the Ben Franklin Bridge to Philadelphia, I was all in (well, at least to Camden.)
Continue reading “How to bike from Trenton to Camden, New Jersey”A day of more biking on roads than trails .. but there are big plans afoot in this part of eastern Connecticut.
Day 3 of our Connecticut-Rhode Island adventure was closing the gap between Day 1 and Day 2 — biking from the campground close to the Rhode Island line to Putnam, Connecticut, along the East Coast Greenway route.
This stretch was more road than trail, and a good lesson that you don’t have to bike on the route you’d drive.
Continue reading “Day 3 of a Connecticut-Rhode Island adventure along the East Coast Greenway”Cycling the East Coast Greenway: Thumbs up for the Washington Secondary Trail — and take this short detour to the homestead of one of George Washington’s right-hand men.
This is Day 2 of my effort to almost finish biking the 3,000-mile East Coast Greenway from Maine to Florida. The plan had been to bike all of the missing stretch — from Providence to New York City — with friends over the better part of a week in August.
Then COVID. Now the plan is for just two of us to ride just part of it and use a campsite as a base. This day’s goal: Providence, Rhode Island.
Continue reading “Rhode Island’s 5-star Washington Secondary Trail: Car-free from near Connecticut to the outskirts of Providence”
Exploring by bicycle 