Originally Posted by
FBinNY
Thanks for that. However, I think there's beautiful cycling, with plenty of options east and south Of Lake Placid, which is why I'd make it my western limit. From lake Placid, there's one road south east through Keene, then the OP can stay west in the foothills toward Lake George, or continue southeast towards Ticonderoga and points south, and loping back into VT.
As I said, I happen to really like the NYS side of the lake all the way to Whitehall, from where the VT side is equally nice.
Yes, that’s what I meant by the I87 corridor.
To the OP, what we are talking about essentially, is Rt 73, which runs SE from LP to Rt 9 and I87.
The road infrastructure east of I87 is greater then west, especially in the central Dak’s, where there’s no real N/S route except what I described as the Saranac to Long Lake corridor.
One issue is once committed to the Rt30/28 area, if weather becomes problematic, it’s a schlep over to Lake Champlain and home. Staying east as FB has described gets you options to cross the lake and head north back to Burlington, as there are ferry (as you are probably aware) options.
I would also comment that the area FB describes and I call the Lake Champlain valley, is arguably more scenic then the central Dak’s. Certainly more views of the lake, the Green Mt’s, the ADK High Peaks. One thing about the Rt 30/28 area is it’s 20 miles typically between towns, all being forest, so a LOT of trees to look at, sometimes some high peak views (Tupper Lake area), but a lot of empty.