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Biking in the Finger Lakes

Anyone have any info or first hand knowledge about biking in the Finger Lakes (the swath from Corning to Ithaca)?

  Looking for trails like the GAP, etc.
edronline
2018-01-21 14:22:02
There's a patchwork of rail trails between buffalo / rochester /saracuse / albany, with plans to connect them all I belive. Check out google maps bike layer https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9536505,-76.9528231,9.58z/data=!5m1!1e3 or Rails to Trails TrailLink https://www.traillink.com/trailsearch/?city=rochester&state=NY There's also a road bike oriented Finger Lakes Cycling Club on Ride With GPS that has posted routes: https://ridewithgps.com/organizations/223-finger-lakes-cycling-club/routes or their website http://flcycling.org/
benzo
2018-01-23 11:55:32
I'm actually kind of curious about this myself, great area to visit. Would love for some more first-hand pointers for sure. Sorry I can't help with that.
benzo
2018-01-23 11:57:18
I have a paper map from about 1980 showing bicycle routes in the Finger Lakes area. Will scan when I get at the map collection, and post here. Might not be tonight.
stuinmccandless
2018-01-24 19:43:33
1980? That's 11 years before I was born! Pretty outdated.
zzwergel
2018-01-24 19:59:20
Not necessarily. Nothing significant has changed in the roads, valleys, hills, lakes or towns. I-390 is the newest thing on there. If it was fairly decent to bike on in 1980, it is probably fairly decent to bike on today. First, the cover and legend. https://twitter.com/bus15237/status/956381700501762048 Second, the western side. https://twitter.com/bus15237/status/956382143474733056 Third, the eastern side. https://twitter.com/bus15237/status/956382486438797312 Fourth, the area around Geneseo where I biked a lot. https://twitter.com/bus15237/status/956382752999399424
stuinmccandless
2018-01-24 23:32:11
I'm going to guess that the number of paper copies of this map still extant, in Pittsburgh, is one. To the original poster @edronline, what this map doesn't do is tell about trails on recovered railroad beds and so forth, that might have been built in the last 38 years, so to that extent, Z is right, it is outdated. But I will grab a close-up of the Corning to Ithaca corridor for you. https://twitter.com/bus15237/status/956386410315083778
stuinmccandless
2018-01-24 23:41:38
Thanks!!!
edronline
2018-01-25 06:09:25