Why this ride
Out of Fanwood, one way: 92 km, roughly 1 h 28 in the saddle.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Hawk’s Nest and Upper Delaware · part 2
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 92 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 28
- Journey
- One way; return travel is separate
Distance and timing basis
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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Scenic stretch in Fanwood
Fanwood is one of those small, tidy New Jersey boroughs built around a railway station, with a compact centre, tree-lined streets and commuters heading for Manhattan each morning. On its own it offers little for a rider beyond a quiet road and a coffee, but its position at the foot of the Watchung Mountains makes it a useful starting point.
Read the complete Scenic stretch in Fanwood write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Scenic stretch in Fanwood is where the day begins. Next is New York / Hudson Valley rides return.
2. Near Manville, on the way back
Manville takes its name from a factory. In the early twentieth century, the Johns-Manville company built a huge plant here in central New Jersey, producing asbestos building materials, and a town grew around it to house the workers, many of them immigrants from Eastern Europe. The plant closed in the 1980s after asbestos was found to be deadly, and the company was bankrupted by lawsuits. Today Manville is a modest working-class borough of small houses and shops, sitting where the Raritan and Millstone rivers meet.
Read the complete Near Manville, on the way back write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
New York / Hudson Valley rides return comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Photo stop near Little Silver.
3. Photo stop near Little Silver
Little Silver occupies a neck of land between two tidal rivers, the Navesink and the Shrewsbury, in the comfortable heart of Monmouth County. It is an old place by American standards, settled in the seventeenth century, and the river shores around it are lined with marinas, big houses and marshes where ospreys nest on platforms in summer. Red Bank, next door, is a lively small town with theatres and restaurants, and it was the birthplace of the jazz bandleader Count Basie, whose name is on the town's grand old theatre.
Read the complete Photo stop near Little Silver 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 92 km.
Leg by leg
Scenic stretch in Fanwood to Near Manville, on the way back
Scenic stretch in Fanwood → Near Manville, on the way back is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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