Empire State Trail bike ride day 2: Hudson to New Paltz

Hills, more road than trail … and the lunch stop you must go to.

What a change from our first day! Oh still ridiculously hot for June, but more road, more shade… and more hills. If you have any thoughts of a leisurely ride with the Hudson River in sight, let me kill that fantasy now. This was definitely more challenging.

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Empire State Trail bike ride day 1: Albany to Hudson

The big surprise: a new 36-mile trail.


The first surprise of our journey along about 200 miles of the Empire State Trail: the Albany-Hudson Electric Trail. Is it really brand new, built thanks to the $200 million budgeted to develop the Empire State Trail?

Just call it amazing. Or as the Brit said, it could be in Canada (we biked just a little bit of the Route Verte a few years ago and loved it).

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