Long Distance Competition/Ultracycling, Randonneuring and Endurance Cycling - where are the routes?

I've been searching (for the most part fruitlessly) for bike routes out of philadelphia either west or south. I realize i may just need a map and some courage but i was hoping to maybe find some tips on trails that bikers before me have taken (i know you're out there)- but alas, i can't even find a Philly to jersey shore trail- let alone one with tips on travellin to Tennessee. Maybe someone knows where i can purchase some hard literature on this, since the interweb isn't helping too much.

At this point any tips are sage advice.
thanks
-g

Adventure Cycling makes touring maps for all over the US, maybe they have some in that area?

try
www.bikely.com (http://www.bikely.com)

Have you checked www.mapmyride.com ? There's a lot of good maps (out here, anyway) that other users have submitted.

http://www.bikepa.com/routes/index.htm

I've been searching (for the most part fruitlessly) for bike routes out of philadelphia either west or south. I realize i may just need a map and some courage but i was hoping to maybe find some tips on trails that bikers before me have taken (i know you're out there)- but alas, i can't even find a Philly to jersey shore trail- let alone one with tips on travellin to Tennessee. Maybe someone knows where i can purchase some hard literature on this, since the interweb isn't helping too much.

At this point any tips are sage advice.
thanks
-g

My favorite urban maps are the AAA Metropolitan maps. I think the scale is small enough to show good secondary and back roads, yet cover a wide area, out into the exurbs.

http://www.bikepa.com/routes/index.htm

here are links to the specific pdf's

http://www.bicycleaccess-pa.org/BicyclePA.htm

bikepa only has the overview maps...

might want to ask over in touring...