Adirondack Directory - in progress

Biking Directory

 

Happy Pedaling.  Enjoy our briefing on local bicycle and mountain bike trails.  Think "Safety"    before heading out!  Enjoy!  Pease check your trip with resources posted below.  (* Mountain Biking Trails).    The trails listed below are described briefly and readers are advised to obtain maps and complete information before pedaling away.   Please leave no trace, pack out what you pack in, always yield the trials, always be courteous and plan ahead.  Thank you from our fellow bicyclist. 

 

Lake George Area

Battlefield Park (17 miles terminating @ Fort Edward)

Adirondack Bicycle Tours, 1324 Bay Road, Lake George

 Warren County Parks & Recreation (local biking trail map) 518-623-2877
West Mountain Ski Area (mtn. biking) Glens Falls  Crandall Park Int'l Ski Trails, Route 9, Glens Falls Feeder Canal, Glens Falls & Queensbury
Tubby Tubes Co. Lake Luzerne (bike rentals and tours)    

Johnsburg/Minerva

Irishtown Snowmobile Trail*(8.9 miles, trailhead at Blue Ridge Rd., 8 miles E of Newcomb)

Roosevelt Truck Trail

(2.5 miles, trailhead at Blue Ridge Rd., wide old rd that connects Cty Rt. 2 to Rt 28N)

Vanderwhacker Mtn. Trail

(12.6 miles, Moose Pond Club Rd., off  Rt. 28N, N of Minerva.  Dirt Rd.)
Camp Santanoni Preserve (9 miles, trailhead Rt. 28N, Newcomb) Deer Creek (1.4 miles, trailhead:  14th Rd off Route 28N)

Garnet Hill Mt. Bike Center  Garnet

Schroon Lake

Berrymill Flow-Moose MtnPond-Bass Lake Loop*

(12 miles, difficult, see resources for directions)

Crowfoot Pond Trail

(2.7 miles, I87 X 30, Rt .9 to Tracey Rd Rd. to Trailhead)

Hammond Pond/Black Brook* (1.9 miles, Rt. 9 to Cty Rt. 4, Trailhead: old road/snowmobile trail)

Round Pond & Lindsay Brook Trails*

(3.8 miles, plus 1 mile, Trailhead: Sharp Bridge Campground)

N. Hudson-Ironville Loop

(28.5 miles, trailhead at N. Hudson on Johnson Pond Rd, L on dirt road Furnace Rd. to Ironville, take Cty. Rt. 2 along Penfield Pond, R on Stony Lonesome Rd, R. on Letsonville Rd, L on Johnson Pond Rd and back to N. Hudson)

Blue Ridge Rd

(19 miles, From Newcomb east to N. Hudson)
Biking in Schroon (pdf file)    

Resources

Essex County Mountain Bike Routes (by Lake Placid.com)

  Bicycling in the Schroon Lake Region (by Lake Placid.com)

Essex Cty. Highway Map

518/873-3666, call for details

Lake Champlain Bikeway Guide (by Lk. Champlain Bikeways)

 Adirondack Coast Bikeway Guide (by  Lk. Champlain Bikeways)

Historic Boquet River Bike Trails

Gary Thomann's, "Mountain Biking in the Adirondacks", 25 great rail rides

  

Delorme Mapping

Franklin County Tourism. 518-483-6788 (call for your Adk. Mtn. Bike Trail Map)