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Ibis99
Joined: 14 Jan 2004
Posts: 8
Location: NJ11/6/15 9:25 AM |
Parks in NJ
Does anyone know of any good parks in NJ to ride a road bike? Thanks.
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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven11/6/15 10:14 AM |
Lots. Which part of the state are you interested?
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Ibis99
Joined: 14 Jan 2004
Posts: 8
Location: NJ11/6/15 9:05 PM |
Preferably Central.
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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven11/7/15 2:49 PM |
Central Nj
Sandy Hook national park. Plenty of parking and cyclists. Nice views, smooth pave, pancake flat, with the occasional headwind. Visited there today.
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Steve B.
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Posts: 769
Location: Long Island, NY11/7/15 3:15 PM |
Presumably and because you are asking about parks, you want to ride on paved bike paths ?.
Have you Googled "Bike paths in parks in New Jersey" or some variation ?.
Also check the Rails to Trails Conservancy. They have a pretty comprehensive listing of trails that are converted railroad right-of-way's, many of which are part of a park system, or parks themselves.
I'm not really up on NJ, as I do not live there, but have ridden the gravel rail trails along the Delaware River from Milford down to Trenton, on both sides of the river. As well, there's the Delaware to Raritan Canal path that connects to the Delaware River trails at Trenton and runs up to Brunswick.
Just found this as well:
http://www.traillink.com/stateactivity/nj-bike-trails.aspx
Note that a lot of rail trails are gravel/crushed stone/hard packed dirt. Typically you'd want a 28mm or larger tire, so gravel/cross/touring bikes, or mt. bikes are the ideal bike for these paths.
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lrzipris
Joined: 04 Mar 2004
Posts: 532
Location: Doylestown, PA11/8/15 8:16 AM |
Take a look at njbikemap.com, a wonderful resource.
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bboston75
Joined: 16 Jan 2004
Posts: 367
Location: philadelphia11/15/15 3:23 PM |
NJbikemap
Agree. Used it all the time when I lived in New Hope and did about half my riding across the river. Western NJ north of Washington's Crossing is like Vermont.
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