Another reason to bicycle in Mercer County.
Guess which is my beer: the pint of Mr. Pig Pils or the 5-ounce blueberry one?
Continue reading “A bike ride to a gorgeous farm brewery in Pennington, NJ”The rocky detour by Brearley House is no more. Hurray!
There’s been another improvement to the Lawrence Hopewell Trail. It’s relatively small compared to other developments this year, but it makes a loop ride even smoother.
Continue reading “I biked the full Lawrence Hopewell Trail loop! (And there’s one more improvement)”Now I can bike the full 20-mile loop!
Let’s just say that this new boardwalk is one of the best parts of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail — and that’s saying a lot because this trail already had so wonderful spots.
Continue reading “That new boardwalk section of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail is beyond spectacular”At the Gingered Peach and Terra Momo.
Lunch and dessert? Or dessert and dessert?
This was a two-bakery bicycle ride, inspired by a late-2024 list of the state’s 71 best bakeries, as judged by NJ.com, the owner of the state’s biggest newspaper.
Continue reading “I biked to 2 of New Jersey’s best bakeries using the Lawrence Hopewell Trail”This year’s event was just fabulous!
Love the Full Moon Ride! And the weather for this year’s version — on Sept. 14 — couldn’t have been better!
Continue reading “Some photos from Lawrence Hopewell Trail’s Full Moon Ride”Just too early for pizza and wine.
It’s no secret that I love the Lawrence Hopewell Trail and all its variety. So after last weekend’s bike-and-wine adventure in the other direction, I thought I’d try another winery. And I realized the LHT could get me most of the way there.
Continue reading “I used the Lawrence Hopewell Trail to bike to Hopewell Valley Vineyards”The quest for “weird” beer continues.
We braved the mud and the wind — oh that wind! — to reach the Druery Brewery using the D&R Canal towpath and the Lawrence Hopewell Trail.
Continue reading “A bike ride to a new brewery just off the Lawrence Hopewell Trail”I’m now using the paved path to the Mount Rose parking lot to shave off a bit of biking on Carter Road
There’s now a paved wide pathway from the Mount Rose Preserve parking lot off Carter Road in Hopewell Township, NJ, to the Mount Rose section of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail.
Continue reading “This technically isn’t part of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail — but I love it”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”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.”
Exploring by bicycle 