Touring - Advice needed quickly for a tour from Southeast MI to NYC

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llamer
08-10-04, 10:30 AM
Hey folks, some friends of mine are coming over from CA to visit me here in Detroit, on their bike tour, with NYC as their final destination (they are in Chicago right now). They were thinking about going through Canada from Detroit, into Buffalo, and then into NYC as a possible route. I have heard that if you're driving in a car, it's faster to go through Ohio, Penn. and then NY state, rather than go through Ontario.

They don't have any bike route maps of the area, and I really want to help them out, and I was wondering if any of you folks had some suggestions for them. I would think that going though Canada would be the nicest way, because you get to avoid some of the mountains of Pennsylvania, I think (?), but then again, going along Lake Erie looks the most straight. Also, it costs some money to take your bike on the bus over the Ambassador bridge here in Detroit, I reckon.

If any of you have experience with any of this, I'd really appreciate it. They're gonna be in the area rather soon, so I want to give them any help as soon as possible. Thanks a lot!

denisegoldberg
08-10-04, 01:34 PM
You might want to take a look at some bike routes across New York state (http://www.dot.state.ny.us/pubtrans/bikemap.html) provided on the state department of transportation web site. It doesn't help with your crossing into Canada question, but it does show some options for NY.

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brokenrobot
08-10-04, 01:52 PM
You might want to take a look at some bike routes across New York state (http://www.dot.state.ny.us/pubtrans/bikemap.html) provided on the state department of transportation web site. It doesn't help with your crossing into Canada question, but it does show some options for NY.

Terrific link, thanks! I've spent I don't know how long hunting down individual maps in NY, and that site has info about ALL of them!

To the OP - you might have a look at www.greenway.org - the proposed Atlantic Greenway may also give some good details about the NY part of the trip.

-chris

Braumeister
08-11-04, 01:48 PM
New York State Bike Route 5 is a good way to get across New York State east to west or vice versa. They've actually done a really nice job of laying out the route on smooth roads with good shoulders, plus your friends get the added benefit of checking out the Erie Canal and its pathways enroute. The free map from NYSDOT is awesome but it took mine a while to reach me...