Delaware Water Gap Long Day · short arc

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

1. 1. Sea Bright

   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.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Delaware Water Gap Long Day is where the day begins. Next is High point near Manasquan.

2. 2. High point near Manasquan

   Planning note

   High point near Manasquan comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Scenic stretch near Dayton.

3. 3. Scenic stretch near Dayton

   Central New Jersey is not where anyone goes looking for mountain roads, and Dayton, part of South Brunswick township, makes no pretence otherwise. It sits in the flat country between New Brunswick and Princeton, crossed by Route 130, the New Jersey Turnpike and US 1, with warehouses, office parks, farms that have survived development and a lot of commuters. Think of this as a place to regroup on the way to the good stuff rather than a destination in itself.

   Read the complete Photo stop near Dayton write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   about 93 km into the recorded legs you reach Scenic stretch near Dayton. Next is Photo stop near Hackettstown.

4. 4. Photo stop near Hackettstown

   Hackettstown smells faintly of chocolate on some days, thanks to the Mars factory in town, where candy has been made for decades. It is a pleasant small town in the valley of the Musconetcong River, in the hills of north-western New Jersey, with a main street, old churches and a college. For riders, it is a gateway to some of the best roads in the state.

   Read the complete Photo stop near Hackettstown write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Photo stop near Hackettstown, about halfway. Next is Food stop near Danbury.

5. 5. Food stop near Danbury

   Planning note

   Food at 347 km, roughly 6 hours into the riding. Next is New York / Hudson Valley rides.

6. 6. New York / Hudson Valley rides

   This corner of the state is a landscape of reservoirs, small rivers and stone walls, with the Housatonic River held in two long lakes behind dams at Lake Zoar and Lake Lillinonah. The ride that uses this point is billed as a Delaware Water Gap long day, and that lies a long way west, so treat this as a starting or finishing area for a much bigger loop through New York and New Jersey.

   Read the complete New York / Hudson Valley rides write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   The route ends here after 434 km.