Anyone coming to Vt to ride should definitely go to the Local Motion web site and order the Lake Champlain Bikeways map. It covers pretty much everything west of the green mountains from the center of the state to the Canadian border, plus a lot of good rides in NY, which has much better shoulders and pavement than VT. I live in Westford, about 15 miles north east of Burlington and use the map to navigate around a lot of small dirt roads up here in the northern towns. These are good roads with great views but many of them are not on the state map. Many of Vt's roads and shoulders are in poor condition, which makes the trade off to dirt roads more appealing.
Grand Isle and the lake shore roads between Vergennes and Middlebury are the only really flat part of the state, but they can be windy. As someone pointed out, if you want to ride on Grand Isle the best choices are East Shore Rd, which is dirt, and West Shore Rd. For some reason most cyclist will instead fight the winds and traffic on Rt 2. If you visit our capital, Montpelier, ( a great little town) there are lots of good roads nearby. I visit my daughter there weekly and often ride north on Rt 12, which has pretty good pavement, once you're out of town, a nice shoulder, low traffic midday, and nice views. Plus it's slowly up hill as you go north, so the trip home is pretty easy. On Jun 20, 8:39 am, Zack <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey All - > > I live in Burlington, VT, and would like to start doing some overnight > camping trips in VT. I am researching good spots to do the > overnights, and figured I would ask on here as well. Have any of you > done any in VT? > > A lot of what I am finding for state park camping is more like car- > camping, (with a bunch of campsites clustered together/showers/ > firewood/firepit, etc. - which is okay, but not really what I am > looking for.) I would like to camp somewhere that I am by myself, > maybe have a nice view, and have a chance to get away. I thought it > would be worth asking on here, as some may have experience. > > Any help? Appreciate it in advance! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
