Starting from Atlantic Highlands (First Ave & Hennessey), it's about 4 miles to the ocean (after passing through the town of Highlands and then crossing the Rt. 36 bridge, which has cycling/ped infrastructure). From the bridge, the basic loop to the end of Sandy Hook and back to the bridge is around 12 miles (of course, it's more if you decide to ride around and hit up all some interesting points up there). So, the trip from AH to SH and back to AH will be about 20-25 miles.
Now if one were to start at the Matawan train station, it's around 11 miles to reach Atlantic Highlands, so the trip from Matawan to Sandy Hook and back will then be roughly 45 miles. (To use Jan Heine's terms, think of that portion as the "transport stage" to reach the start of the "official" ride at AH!) Another option for those coming by train would be to continue south along the ocean after Sandy Hook and take Rt. 36/Ocean Ave for most of the way to pick up the return train at Long Branch (it's 7 miles from the Rt. 36 bridge to the station). So that trip from Matawan to AH to SH to LB would be around 34 miles. Bob E Cranford, NJ On Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 7:31:02 PM UTC-4, John Hawrylak wrote: > > A possible Start/End could be the Henry Hudson Trailhead at Broadway/Lloyd > Rd/Gerard Ave in Aberdeen/Keyport. Looks like 32 parking spots at the > trail head. The Matawan train station looks to be < 1M and has city > streets to the trail head for the NYC folks. > > 12M along trail to Popamora Point (Highlands??) and you avoid Rt 36. > Don't know how far it is to Sandy Hook from there. Possibly 60 to 70M > total if going out to Sandy Hook. Would need to start about 0900 or > earlier?? > > John Hawrylak > Woodstown NJ >> >> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/5734d861-ea6c-43b8-a975-c81339185663o%40googlegroups.com.
