Sunday July 9. Lake Bomoseen to Round Lake 75 miles.
Today is a solo ride home, After Leaving Hartmann's house I headed back through Castleton and and west along Rt 4 back to Whitehall.

This is usually a really busy road but on a Sunday morning the traffic was light. The Skene mansion overlooks the village of Whitehall.

Wanting to beat the traffic before it got heavy I quickly continued along Rt 4 to cover the 10 miles to Fort Ann, Route 4 south for the next 50 miles is part of NYS Bike Route 9

South of Fort Ann 90% of the through traffic disappeared and I had the road pretty much to myself. I rode Rt 149 to the old towpath road and then onto Hudson Falls/ Fort Edward.
I wasn't interested in Breakfast earlier but I was pretty hungry now I made a stop in The Old Fort Diner for Breakfast. In Fort Edward parts of the Original Champlain canal is still in place. Much of the old towpath has been improved into Bike trails.

South of Fort Edward I continued on Rt 4, I soon passed the Grave site of Jane McCrea who in 1777 was killed by local Indians who had a treaty with the British, when the British refused to bring those beleaved responsible for her death to justice,Jane McCrea became something of a martyr for the American Revolution. If you Google her name there are quite a few interesting pages about her.


Soon I was in the village of Schuylerville best known as the site of the pivotal battle of Saratoga in 1777 and the subsequent surrender of British General Burgoyne. The battlefield sets high on a ridge and the many turnouts along the park road affords views like this of the distant Green Mountains of VT



So as not to cover the same route twice I cut through the battle field park and rode the last 10 miles home on the back roads. 214 miles total.
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Note: RT 4 Between Castleton and Albany has many Revolutionary War Era towns and points of interest This excellent web site points out many of them