CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Ridges, river views and a western escape. 212 km round from Port Jervis - plan on about 3 h 52 of riding. It goes by way of Milford river stop, Delaware Water Gap and Warwick roads. Back roads rather than main roads, where the map allows.
High Point is the highest place in New Jersey, a fact that surprises people who think of the state as a flat belt of turnpikes and refineries. It sits on the Kittatinny Ridge, a long, straight line of old rock that runs from the Delaware Water Gap in the south-west up toward the New York border, and at 1,803 feet above sea level, it is a modest summit by Western standards but a real one. A stone obelisk, 220 feet tall and built in 1930, crowns the top, and from its platform on a clear day you can see three states: New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. The Delaware River winds silver below, and the green farmland of the valley stretches out on every side.
Read the complete High Point New Jersey write-up.
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High Point New Jersey sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Milford river stop.
Milford, Pennsylvania, is a village of fewer than a thousand people, and it has a very large story attached to it. On the hill just above the main street stands Grey Towers, a French-style chateau of grey stone built in the 1880s as the family home of Gifford Pinchot, who became the first chief of the United States Forest Service and later governor of Pennsylvania. Pinchot was one of the founders of the American conservation movement, and it was here, at his family home, that he and other leaders of the movement planned their campaigns. The house is now a national historic site, open to visitors, and the grounds are lovely.
Read the complete Milford river stop write-up.
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Milford river stop is where this day stops to eat. Next is Delaware Water Gap.
A river that has been cutting through a ridge for millions of years leaves a notch like a missing tooth, and the Delaware Water Gap is exactly that. At this spot the Delaware slices through Kittatinny Ridge, with Mount Minsi on the Pennsylvania side and Mount Tammany on the New Jersey side, each rising about twelve hundred feet above the water. The gap is a classic piece of geology, with tilted layers of sandstone and shale exposed in the cliffs, and the Appalachian Trail crosses the river here on the Interstate 80 bridge, a spot where hikers and trucks meet.
Read the complete Delaware Water Gap write-up.
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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Delaware Water Gap. Next is Warwick return roads.
Warwick is a town built on onions, apples and a good deal of local pride. It lies in the Hudson Valley's Warwick Valley, a broad, green bowl of farmland between ridges of old rock, and the flat, black land to the south and east is known as the Black Dirt Region, a former swamp drained in the nineteenth century to reveal soil so rich and dark that it is called muck. Onions, lettuce and other vegetables grow there in vast quantities, and in the autumn you can see the crops being harvested by teams of workers under a sky full of gulls. About seven thousand people live in the town, so there is plenty of fuel and food.
Read the complete Warwick return roads write-up.
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A pump at about 165 km into the recorded legs. Next is Back to High.
Port Jervis sits at a corner of three states, and if you stand at the right spot you can be in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania within a few paces. The Delaware River swings around, the smaller Neversink River joins it, and a stone monument called Tri-States Rock, set at the edge of the water, marks the place where the borders meet. It is a quirk of geography that has long amused visitors, and the town has the look of a place built when railroads and canals mattered: a grid of old brick buildings, a Victorian railroad station and hillsides with white church spires.
Read the complete High write-up.
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Back at Back to High. That is the ride.
Delaware Water Gap → Warwick return roads is the logistics leg. Watch junctions, villages and speed changes, then let the roadbook do its job: move you out of the clutter without spending your best attention too early.