[rktman]

So, what about the other 45 states? Redheaded step kids or what. What if "I" don't care for a couple of those states?

[Chickensoup]

We have a rails to trails system locally although it is not yet connected to the national system.

Lonely isolated, mile and miles of trees and woods. Not a place to go alone. Ever.

Unlike Euro trails and hikes, where you walk from town to town and see homes and neighborhoods along the way, the bike trails are isolated criminal magnets.

[Secret Agent Man]

Can’t carry in some of those states.

[TADSLOS]

[hecticskeptic]

My wife gets bad allergies in August and just wants to be left alone near her HEPA filters until the pollen clears... and so it’s been a tradition that I take a few days/weeks off by myself. What I’ve done for years now is strip the bike down, put it in a box and fly one way somewhere west... and then bike home. The reason for going west is simple... winds blow predominantly toward the east and I like biking as fast as can. This routine has taken me to lots of places but here is one of the very nicest (and for this one, you obviously had to fly east). https://www.explore-mag.com/biking-the-gaspe

The trail around the Gaspe Peninsula is only 500 miles or so in length.... further if you start from Quebec City but it’s spectacular and for people who like to bike, it should be on your bucket list. There are some hills that are up to 15% (well, quite a few) so take a bike with low gears. And take the clockwise route as opposed to a counter clockwise… the wind can be spectacular along the south shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and you definitely want to be biking with it. Here’s a nice blog about it that has some nice pictures... http://gaspecycling.blogspot.com/

[Deplorable American1776]

Biking Cross Country is on my bucket list. I love to bike rail trails and see old ruins. Pinellas Rail Trail is nice, especially seeing old railroad structures. Rail to Trails people do not want rails back on trails, which is a shame.

[Drago]

Bicycle Thread PING!

[Oatka]

Walter Wyckoff walked/worked his way across America in 1891-92 as a social experiment (can an unskilled laborer find work everywhere in America?)

[Nailbiter]

flr

[Sirius Lee]

My home state (CT) has a decent and actively growing rails to trails system which connects to MA, which also has a decent RtT. For the most part, they are scenic and make for a pleasant ride unless you crave hills. These are flat (rails). The only other downside is that as you approach villages one must navigate around all manner of dog walkers, children, skateboarders, and other very slow fair weather riders. But God bless them all for putting down the xbox controls and going outside.

Mostly I stick to the woods on the mt. bike, or the backroads on a carbon Roubaix. The area between the Berkshires and the Hudson is one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

And Maine is crap for bikes. You really have to watch yourself because the roads are steeply crowned and have no shoulder at all and you're sharing the road with logging trucks. Maine is for boating and fishing. The sooner you accept that the happier you will be.