Bike
New England
and
Cycling Routes in
the American Northeast are produced
by Gordon Harris, a cycling enthusiast, group tour
leader and webmaster for
North
Shore Cyclists. View and download cycling routes,
cue sheets and route maps created for rides and
tours throughout much of the American Northeast,
Nova Scotia and Quebec, the Massachusetts
North Shore and the
Berkshires.
You'll also find over 3000 cue sheets created by
members of bicycle clubs from Virginia to Maine,
as well as cycling resources provided by state and
provincial organizations.
Custom Tour requests:
Email
Gordon at Bike New England about designing a
custom tour for your family, group or organization.
The price is $75 for each day of the tour, and includes
research and creation of a custom route designed
to meet your request, cue sheets, route maps, online
maps at RideWithGPS and GPX files.
Group
tours available by request
Road
Scholar bicycle tour of the Massachusetts North
Shore
Based in historic
Ipswich, this "level 5" tour is hosted by
Olde Ipswich Tours
and is led by Bike New England's Gordon Harris.
30-45 mile scenic bicycle rides take us to some
of the most historic communities in New England.
The following dates have sufficient signups, are
still open and have been confirmed:
Dates: Jun 17 — Jun 22, 2012 ; Sep
23 — Sep 28, 2012
Price: $999
per person double occupancy. 4 full days and 2 half
days of guided cycling, with all meals included.
View the daily itinerary.
Sign up at the Road Scholar site for
this tour
Road
Scholar Mulstisport tour
A multisport cycling, kayaking, canoeing and
hiking tour based in popular Newburyport, MA
designed for active participants, exploring theEssex
National Heritage Area. We bike, hike and
kayak at Plum Island, canoe on the
Ipswich River to Mass Audubon's Ipswich River
Sanctuary and enjoy walks in the beautiful state
parks of the North Shore area.
Dates:
Aug 19 — Aug 24, 2012
Price: $999
per person double occupancy. 4 full days and 2 half
days of guided cycling, with all meals included.
View the daily itinerary.
Sign up at the Road Scholar site for this tour
For questions about either tour, email tour leader
Gordon Harris at
bikenewengland@yahoo.com or call (978) 979-6598.
Bicycles may be rented for $100 /week.
Interactive Maps of Bicycle
Rides in New England and New York State
The
interactive Google Map below
gives readers a direct link to fundraising rides,
club rides and well-vetted routes in Massachusetts
and neighboring northern New England. Each cyclist
represents a ride.
The
Question mark links to a map of
rides in Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York
State.
Maps will load faster
using classic Google Maps, not the new Google MapsGL.
Cue sheets & route
maps from Bike New England multi-day tours
Cycling club cue sheets arranged alphabetically
by town
Connecticut,
Maine,
Maryland,
Massachusetts,
New Hampshire,
New
York,
Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island,
Vermont,
PDF files are best viewed in
Adobe Acrobat Reader. We suggest setting your
display preferences so that the document fits the
page. After opening the first PDF file, right click
on Page Display Preferences, and select "Fit Page"
Under Zoom.
Use the blue navigation bar on the left to find
route maps, cue sheets, tour descriptions, official
state cycling maps, mapping programs, and much more.
Many rides link to interactive online maps and GPX
files at
RideWithGPS which you can use to follow the
route with
Garmin Edge bicycle GPS computers.
Our complete inventory of PDF cycling route files
on disk or online
Order
our online routes inventory
on disk with over 3000 route descriptions,
cue sheets and route maps from Bike New
England tours and cycling clubs throughout
the Northeast. If you enjoy using this resource
and would like to have faster direct access
to all 695 MB of PDF files cue sheet and
route map files, a one-time payment through
Paypal for permanent access to the online
directory access is $15, or purchase
the entire directory on disk plus online
access for $20.
Go to the disk order and directory
log-in page.
Ride descriptions and
interactive route maps at
Cycling New England
Search the
Bike New England Site
Use the Google search engine below to search
all of our web pages and PDF files for rides by
state, town, road name, club or using your own search
question. A combination of search phrases will create
more specific results. For example, if you enter
Topsfield, Sunday, Asbury, North Shore Cyclists,
the first results will be web pages and cue sheet
files for North Shore Cyclists Sunday rides that
mention Asbury Street.