Just booked my train to PGH and hotel for the first night on 9/11. GAP the up to Bedford to pick up PA Bike Route S with a few deviations along the way. Did this route in 2013. Not the best route in the world, especially as you get farther east, but within my current wheelhouse considering how little I’ve been riding.
Highlights include an abandoned stretch of PA Turnpike with two unlit tunnels, a major apple growing area where one of the large processors has an aromatic factory, and stunning Amish/Mennonite country, where I just was a few weeks ago.
Considering the terrain, I have planned shorter than normal days.
One of the tunnel portals was a filming location for “The Road”: