Originally Posted by
Ty0604
There's a few of them on Long Island. In fact a new one just opened there at Exit 51-52 in October. You can bike down Motor Pkwy, where the visitor center is located.
But as you mentioned; not sure why anyone would bike that close to NYC.
I certainly wouldn't.
When I took up cycling in '90, I was given a paper copy of the cycling map of Nassau County, which is next to NYC. Many of the roads were marked Red, Yellow, Blue or Green, in order of appropriateness for cycling. It developed as I discovered, that there are miles and miles of roads that are decent for road cycling, 'ya just gotta' know which ones and the map was key. They haven't produced this map in decades due to budget reasons, though the State of NY incorporated most onto it's electronic PDF versions. So I no longer carry the map, but my phone has the pdf on it. Such is the internet age.