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”I’m just back from the weeklong Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure. Here’s why I’m giving it a big thumbs up.
I’m just back from a week of biking about 350 miles in northeastern Ohio for this year’s edition of the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure. I’m giving it a big thumbs up. Here’s why:
Continue reading “GOBA 34: A first-timer’s impressions of the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure ride”How many other trails do you know that offer so much variety?
On Memorial Day, I took a friend on a loop ride of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail in Mercer County, N.J., all 22 or so miles.
He pronounced it “magnificent.”
I couldn’t agree more.
Continue reading “A friend called the Lawrence Hopewell Trail ‘magnificent’. He’s right.”I found this in a New Jersey park.
Sure, there’s Miami Beach, which is famous for its Art Deco buildings. But this is hidden in a New Jersey park, obscured by the veterans memorial.
Continue reading “An Art Deco surprise on the East Coast Greenway”So much to see on the Perkiomen Trail – including a ski area and a moving bit of history.
So much eye candy for cyclists on the Perkiomem Trail.
There’s the Perkiomen Creek, which the trail follows from where it flows into the Schuylkill River just west of Valley Forge National Historic Park north to Green Lane Park in the tiny borough of Green Lane, Pennsylvania. Lots of criss-crossing the creek so you really don’t go far without having water in sight.
Continue reading “I’m late to the Perkiomen Trail — but wow!”
Exploring by bicycle 