CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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Scenery first, traffic last, with checkpoints that make sense on a bike. Out of Rumson and back again: 614 km, roughly 9 h 44 in the saddle. The stops in between: Sea Bright, Scenic stretch near Mount Kisco and Port Jervis. East Norwalk is the high point. Long stretches are under trees.
Sea Bright is barely a town at all in the geographic sense: a strip of sand a few hundred metres wide, with the Atlantic on one side, the Shrewsbury River on the other, and Ocean Avenue running down the middle. A great grey seawall shields the road from the ocean, and on a windy day you can feel the spray even though you cannot see the waves. Beach clubs, seafood bars and surf shops line the street, and in summer the whole place hums.
Read the complete Sea Bright write-up.
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Next is Catskill Creek and Kaaterskill food stop.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sea Bright write-up.
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Catskill Creek and Kaaterskill food stop is where this day stops to eat. Next is Catskill Creek and Kaaterskill high point.
Nobody will pretend there is a mountain pass in East Norwalk. This is the flat, salty shore of Long Island Sound in south-western Connecticut, where the Norwalk River opens into a harbour full of moorings, boatyards and marsh, with a chain of low rocky islands scattered offshore. East Norwalk is the older, waterside side of the city of Norwalk, with Calf Pasture Beach, a park and a long sandy shore facing the islands.
Read the complete East Norwalk write-up.
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This is where the road stops climbing. Next is Scenic stretch near Mount Kisco.
Scenic stretch near Mount Kisco, about halfway. Next is New York / Hudson Valley rides return.
Three states meet in the middle of the Delaware river at Port Jervis, where the Neversink flows in from the north, and a stone marker on a spit of land at the confluence lets you stand almost in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania at once. This stop lies just south of there, near Milford, Pennsylvania, at the northern end of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, where the river runs wide and clear between forested ridges.
Read the complete Near Port Jervis, on the way back write-up.
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New York / Hudson Valley rides return sits at 343 km, about halfway. Next is Photo stop near Washington.
Photo stop near Washington comes up 429 km in. Next is Catskill Creek and Kaaterskill checkpoint 8.
The southernmost tip of the Bronx is where Mott Haven and Port Morris meet the Harlem and East rivers, a grid of brick tenements, warehouses, rail yards and highway viaducts just across the water from Manhattan and Randall's Island. The area takes its name from Jordan Mott, an inventor who opened an iron works here in the 1840s, and the factories that followed made the South Bronx an industrial district for generations.
Read the complete Mott Haven write-up.
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Catskill Creek and Kaaterskill checkpoint 8 closes the day. Next is Back to Catskill Creek.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sea Bright write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Back to Catskill Creek. That is the ride.
Scenic stretch near Mount Kisco → Near Port Jervis, on the way back is the reward section in New York. Look through the bends, use legal pull-offs for photos and keep a little margin for tractors, cyclists and damp shade. The best ride here is smooth, not noisy.
Photo stop near Washington → Mott Haven is shade riding: beautiful, cooler and sometimes slick. Expect damp patches, leaves, gravel and wildlife where the trees meet the road.