Guides and Trips
Trips
This is the complete route including greenway portions unfinished (8/30/12). Paving is in progress. Lake Crabtree to Bond Lake where it becomes the White Oak Creek Trail.
Jogging the city of gardens, I was jazzed to start my inner harbor waterfront run at the Empress and end at the Parliament Buildings. Beginning at daybreak is the best way to enjoy quiet peace but the boulevard route, Dallas Road, that I chose would seem to be light on traffic at other times. It shadows breakwater, parks, and shoreline.
I’ve run the perimeter road on the east side of Philadelphia International next to the Delaware. But on the airports west side, only a mile away, is an expansive conservation area. The 200 acre John Heinz National Refuge is gated and operated by the US Fish & Wildlife Service. It is PAs largest remaining natural freshwater tidal wetlands. The place is popular with bird watchers equipped with binoculars and long lense cameras. There are...
Once clear of Westport Pkwy the perimeter road has sparse traffic and wide lanes. The western side is quiet country livestock pasture land. American has a large maintenance / engineering base on the airport property, north end. I spied a pond with circular path on Heritage Pkwy north of Alliance Blvd.
Asphalt paved multi-use path that may also be known as Davisville Bike Path in North Kingston. There is a natural bay beach and rugged grass field if you care to step off of the trail.
Also known as the Rottenwood Creek Trail. This is a concrete and paved 2 lane bike trail with bridges that cross the creek several times.
A 3 mile loop in the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. The Cochran Shoals trail is extremely wide and is popular with those who are walking. The area is wooded wetlands with glimpses of the river between trees and lookout vistas.
Parallels and follows the Bronx Parkway, the first and the oldest limited access express highway in the USA. I picked up the asphalt greenway in White Plains, NY and ran towards the Kenisco Reservoir. Bronx River wetlands lush with Sycamore trees provided a green surroundings. I saw not a single bike. Following custom, the Parkway is closed to vehicular traffic on Sundays for a period and opened to bicyclists. I came too late for that...
I was hoping to do the last 50 yards to summit for a 360 view but this last bit of road up to the communications tower was posted No Trespassing.
Consulting a satellite map my route looked rather flat and benign but in reality it wasn't a jog. Not even a walk; it was a huff and puff steep incline hike. Surfaced and maintained road ended abruptly although still passible with a sport ute in low gear under dry conditions. I had the hillsides to myself. Just me and the wild goats. I was surprised to encounter them as were they and they took...
It was a mile or more into the jog before reaching the Kal-Haven but the Michigan countryside is a good environment none the less. Going eastbound is a flat run all the way to Kalamazoo. A left turn completes the trail at the South Haven trail head after crossing the Black River. An optional dogleg down main street allowed me to view the big lake from the Harbor entrance. Even with a light rain falling, it was a...
The section of Patriot’s Path mere blocks from Morristown town center begins on a crushed rock utility road next to the NJ Transit Morristown Line. It briefly narrows to a single lane before resuming hard surfaced greenway some of which is blacktopped. My route traversed wooded watershed with a point of interest being a remnant of railroad embankment from 1899. The mound was to carry tracks linking to the Rock a Bye Baby Railroad expansion craze...
