Trails leaving Baltimore, then 14 miles of trail from Greenbelt to Nationals Park.
It’s the last day of our bike adventure from Philadelphia to Washington D.C.
Continue reading “Day 4 of biking from Philadelphia to DC: A 14-mile finale on stunning trails”A trail at the back of the hotel! But getting into Baltimore was tough.
This is the way you want to start a bike ride: go to the back of the hotel, turn right and stay on a trail for the next 42 miles.
If only it had been that smooth the entire day.
Continue reading “Day 3 of biking from Philadelphia to DC: 42 miles of trail and then….”Go ride the Enola Low-Grade Trail!
The Enola Low-Grade Trail is the biking secret you want to discover in Lancaster County, PA.
Continue reading “Day 2 of Philly to DC: This is the next rail-trail that everyone will be talking about”Loved biking on the Schuylkill River and Chester Valley trails. The hills that followed? They never seemed to end.
How in the world did we (Komoot? Ride with GPS?) pick this metric century route to Gap, Pa., a small town in Lancaster County?
Continue reading “Day 1 of biking from Philadelphia to DC: trails (yay) and hills (too many)”What would it be like to use the D&R Canal towpath and then Amwell Road to reach Flounder?
Flounder Brewery moved into a renovated old farmhouse last year (still in Hillsborough) and now has lots of indoor and outdoor seating. We biked once from Duke Farm and then via roads to the D&R Canal towpath at the Griggstown Causeway.
But what would it be like to bike almost all the way using the canal towpath? Time to find out with this route.
Continue reading “A new way to bike to the new Flounder Brewing site”Wonderful views of NYC (from the water), a lengthy trail and under 50 miles.
I love the East Coast Greenway. I’ve biked the whole thing. And I like how the New York-to-Princeton route offers so much variety — urban, suburban, road, trail, towpath, amazing views from the Bayonne and Goethals bridges…
But there’s another way to reach Central Jersey, and it’s only fair to share it too. It also gets you wonderful views of NYC (from the water) and uses a lengthy trail to get you part of the way. Bonus: it’s shorter at under 50 miles.
Continue reading “I discover a new way to bike between NYC and Princeton, New Jersey”You’re right by the Delaware River, and I mean right next to the water. Ducks, maybe some boaters, the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge.
A new section of the K&T Trail just opened in Philadelphia. It’s only 0.6 miles long so you might think it’s not worth the effort to explore.
Wrong.
Continue reading “The newest part of Philadelphia’s K&T Trail has stunning river views”See the Seward Johnson sculptures temporarily scattered around the Hopewell Valley.
Seward Johnson, of the Johnson & Johnson fortune, was a sculptor who created Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey. Now some of his work (or replicas of that work) are popping up elsewhere in Mercer County.
We spotted a life-like hotdog vendor in Trenton on a bike ride a few weeks ago. But when I read that the Hopewell Valley Arts Council has nearly a dozen pieces scattered across its part of the county (all temporarily, of course), I knew there was a bike ride in there.
Continue reading “A marvelous bike route in search of Seward Johnson sculptures in the Hopewell Valley”Still plenty of urban grit, but this section heading south from Center City Philadelphia is getting better for biking — and more is coming.
Nine years ago, I biked from suburban Conshohocken through Philadelphia to Wilmington, Delaware along the East Coast Greenway route.
It was time to see how part of the East Coast Greenway route had changed since then.
Continue reading “The East Coast Greenway from Philadelphia to John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge”We biked the D&R Canal to Trenton, Bordentown and history.
Sometimes it doesn’t take much to learn someone’s story.
Continue reading “A bike ride into the 1800s and the shadow of George McClellan and Joseph Bonaparte”
Exploring by bicycle 