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pitchn23
08-16-07, 11:41 AM
If anyone is interested in a nice bicycle touring guide from High Point to Cape May using bicycle compatible roadways, or you would like our 9 tour route guides (all on waterproof paper), email me at bikeped@dot.state.nj.us. Give me your snail mail address and I will mail them out!!
Ken Roberts
08-21-07, 07:42 AM
If anyone is interested in a nice bicycle touring guide from High Point to Cape May using bicycle compatible roadways, or you would like our 9 tour route guides (all on waterproof paper), email me at bikeped@dot.state.nj.us. Give me your snail mail address and I will mail them out!!
I also found this NJ DOT page of bicycle routes (http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/commuter/bike/tours.shtm)
I looked at three of the routes offered in PDF format, each around 25-30 miles, and they looked promising with nice maps and directions. And the long High Point to Cape May route was there as a giant-size PDF download.
Seems to me that with the improvements to lots of the roads during the last ten years, New Jersey has a lot to offer for exercise and exploring on a road bike.
(One thing that might help that page is if it offered a couple of words on the length and hilliness of each of the routes. Like I think the Raritan Valley route is significantly more hilly than the Pine Barrens, and for lots of riders the difference matters lots)
Ken