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Touring RoutesLong Valley (White Church) -- 12 Cass Park to Taughannock Overlook -- 20 Hollenbeck's Spring Classic -- 22 miles per lap White Church -- 27 miles Caroline Center via Yaple, 28 miles Two Gorges -- 28 miles Owasco Lake, 32 miles Ridges and Hollows -- 32 miles Old Peruville -- 33 miles Prospect Valley, Shindagin -- 34 miles Valois - Burdett -- 35 miles Dryden Lake via Irish Settlement -- 40 miles Almost Genoa -- around 40 miles Honeypot - White Church -- 40 miles Cayuta Lake Loop -- 41 mi Skaneateles Lake - 41 mi. Trumansburg - Montour Falls -- 43 miles Dryden Hill, Daisy Hollow, 45 miles Halsey Valley, Waverly, Spencer, 45 Homer - Otisco Lake -- 45 miles Legge and Ford Hills -- 47 miles Michigan Hill -- 47 miles Texas Hollow - Connecticut Hill -- 47 miles Five Lakes Fifty -- 50 miles Canisteo Valley Loop -- 55 miles Cayuta Lake Plus -- 55 miles Cass Park to Sheldrake -- 55 miles Newark Valley -- 55 miles Taylor Valley -- 55 miles Newfield-Odessa 2 -- 60 miles Straits Corners -- 60 miles Lake Como -- 65 miles Marathon -- 65 miles Seneca Lake -- 85 miles Cayuga Lake -- 92 or 100 miles Keuka Lake Century (Five Lakes & a Steak) Terrible Hills Century -- 100 miles |
The Finger Lakes Cycling Club plans a ride for every Sunday morning throughout the cycling season -- beginning in April and ending in October, November, or December depending on the year's weather. The general plan of the rides is to begin with short ones in spring and work up our endurance for circling the large lakes in late summer. The longest of the lake rides is around Cayuga Lake --- a minimum of 92 miles that many riders choose to stretch into a century. Until a few years ago, one club member would undertake to provide a route for each Sunday. However, the system proved to be a bit nerve-wracking for the club's ride organizers because it was never clear whether anyone would come up with a route or show up with it. So, when Phil Davis took charge of arranging rides, he began to compile all the favorite rides and prepare maps and cue sheets for each. His original repertoire of rides is the basis for this collection of about two dozen established routes --- more than enough for the whole season since some of the favorite routes are wanted more than once. Of course, nobody is held to following the exact route. When people riding together decide to try a new loop, it may eventually be added to the basic ride as an option or even grow into a new route. It must be added that the maps and cue sheets are offered "as is." No doubt there are some silly mistakes, and if you find one, please let me know. Where did the maps come from? Although there is a lot of mapping software available lately, none will directly produce maps useful for cycling. I've settled on using DeLorme Street Atlas USA in its latest version (currently 7.0). However, each cycling map requires so much manipulation that the original DeLorme map is hardly detectable. Credit to them anyhow for the most useful product! I keep having the hallucination that this job will be finished and require no more sitting at the computer during good riding weather. But there seems always to be a backlog of corrections as well as new rides to be defined, mapped, and put on the web. Please excuse the mess. If there is specific information you need, please contact me or another club member. |