Trip Reports on
Manhattan - GWB - Piermont - Nyack
KenR, April 2009: Sharon and I
rode the whole route, including the "river road" thru Palisides park, on
our tandem on a weekday afternoon. The "river" road was prettier than we
remembered -- and some its hill-climbs are as serious as we remembered.
We saw what liked like a potential bike path / sidewalk connection
from the GWB west end of the GWB going south (alongside Hudson Terrace)
to the start of the "river" road -- but a sign said it wasn't open yet,
and we didn't notice anything saying it was intended as a bike path.
Sometimes I've thought it might make sense to do the southern half of
the route in the opposite direction (save the "river road" for the end
instead of at the beginning) - but this time I noticed that some markers
for a big annual bicycling event did it in the sequence and direction
given on our cue sheet.
KenR, 2008: Several times each year, Sharon and I ride our
tandem on "Variation B" of the route - (not doing the "river road"). I
can't call it one of the "great" rides of the Hudson valley. But we
actually ride it more than any other, I think because the riding is
interesting enough (with rolling hills and some curves), the
scenery is pretty enough, vehicle traffic managable enough
-- and it's convenient enough for us to drive to and park along it.
KenR, June 2001: Sharon and I rode our tandem from GWB to Nyack one
cloudy morning. The section of Henry Hudson Dr that goes right
under the GWB was still bumpy, but it got better after Palisades Ave
came down to join it. Rt 9W had been newly paved north from where
we entered, and it was fun to cruise along to the New York state
border. Then we could see that Rt 9W was closed at the Sparkill
bridge just after our route exited to go to Piermont. On our way
from Piermont to Nyack, we saw three bicyclists stopped by police and
getting a traffic ticket (I'd guess it was for not riding in single
file).
Then we continued past Nyack to the dirt path by the river
in Nyack Beach State Park. The damage from the hurricane back in
1999 has been fully repaired (at least out to just before it climbs up
into the woods), and it was pleasant to ride there. On our way
back we found that the section of Rt 9W further south, where we had not
ridden in the morning, was not freshly paved. It was still
in basically good condition, but we had bad luck hitting a crack and got
a snakebite flat tire. We had lots of offers of help from passing
cyclists. And that's one of the things that makes this such a fine
ride on a weekend -- all the other riders you see out there.
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