Linking bike rental shops with bicycle rail trails throughout America, including Central New York

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Maps & descriptions for many rail-trails can be found in the guidebooks:
Take Your Bike – Family Rides in New York’s Finger Lakes Region
Take Your Bike – Family Rides in the Rochester Area
Take Your Bike – Family Rides in [...]

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Cycling the Erie Canal

Click here to read Steve Sokoloski’s experiences and critique of the tour: Cycling the Erie Canal.

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A Fall Ride Along the Mohawk-Hudson Bikeway – Waterford to Schenectady

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Restored Niskayuna Train Station Open Aug 23 for Trail Users

The Friends of the Mohawk-Hudson Bike-Hike Trail, and Parks & Trails New York, with the cooperation of the Town of Niskayuna and financial support from Assemblyman Bob Reilly and the Adirondack Mountain Club (Schenectady Chapter), will have the restored train station at Lions Park in Niskayuna open to the public this Sunday, August 23, from [...]

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Capital Region Bike Trail Maps

The Capital District Transportation Committee has two maps for bicycling around the region. One is its Capital District Bike-Hike Map, created in 2006, that covers the entire region. The other is the Mohawk-Hudson Bike-Hike Trail Map, created in 2004. You can find copies of these maps online at http://www.cdtcmpo.org/maps.htm, call 518-458-2161 for copies or stop [...]

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Brighton (a Rochester suburb) taking steps toward major new trail to link parks

Democrat & Chronicle, by Ashwin Verghese, link to original, full article
Coleridge Gill lives just down the street from the Erie Canalway in Brighton, granting the avid cyclist access to one of the major east-west recreation paths in New York state. But if a new multiuse trail is approved, the 67-year-old could soon have access to [...]

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2 Great WNY Hiking Destinations

by Lisa Poppleton, Buffalo Family Recreation Examiner, link to original post
The WNY area has some of the most beautiful hiking trails in New York State. Whether your an avid hiker, or just want to get in touch with nature, beauty and wonder, I have 2 perfect gems.
The  Erie Canal Heritage Trail scenery is enough to [...]

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Federal cash will let Schenectady County finish bike-hike trail work

By Michael Lamendola, Daily Gazette, link to original post
Schenectady County will finish connecting the state bike-hike trail between its borders by next year, using $1.7 million in federal stimulus money, the state announced Wednesday.
The county will begin work this year and complete it in the fall of 2010. The federal money will create and refurbish [...]

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Recommendations Needed for B&Bs & Bike Shops NEAR Erie Canalway Trail

I received an email from biker John recently. He said:
“My wife and I want to bike from Albany to Buffalo from 7/27 to 8/2 – we are experienced riders and have done at least 10 century rides together all over the states from NYC to Death Valley to Mount Dora FL, but we took a [...]

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Expand Plotterkill Preserve, Finish Bike Trail

Editorial from the Daily gazette, link to original post
With its deep ravines, dramatic rock formations and beautiful waterfalls, Schenectady County’s Plotterkill Preserve in Rotterdam is a very special place. And it has become a more popular one in recent years as more and more people have discovered it. A new $75,000 grant approved by the [...]

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