Western Connecticut Routes

Of all the ways to explore Western Connecticut, electric biking on the backroads puts you in that gorgeous scenery, not just alongside it. 

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A Weathered timber frame house along an unpaved road in the Western Connecticut countryside

The Macedonia: A Western Connecticut Ride

The Macedonia Brook tumbles alongside the start of this 16-mile ride in Kent, Connecticut. With plenty of hardpack and gravel, hybrid e-bikes are well-suited to the route.

A brilliantly colored forest road

The Steep Rock

This isn’t farm country, but rolling woods and dirt roads for miles. Streams and the Shepaug River flow under bridges at several turns, and in the fall, the rivers are lit from above by the golden leaves of massive sugar maples and yellow birch. 11.5 miles.

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The Sherman

From Sherman, Connecticut, cross into New York State and ride "The Oblong", a slice of historic disputed territory now given to forest and farm.

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The Sherman

From Sherman, Connecticut, cross into New York State and ride "The Oblong", a slice of historic disputed territory now given to forest and farm.

An electric, pedal-assist bicycle leans against a stone wall under a leafless tree canopy.

The Fahnestock

Ride alongside a gorge and under a canopy of hemlock and pine. This ride takes you past otter ponds, a centuries-old inn and the site of an old Revolutionary War inoculation station.

An outdoor view, on a sunny warm day, of a balcony at a brewery.

The Craryville

Cycle Craryville, the pastoral heartland of the Upper Hudson Valley, with golden meadows and the blue foothills of the Berkshire mountains.

A stream in autumn

The Vernooy Kill: A Southern Catskills Ride

A rushing stream with intermittent waterfalls follows the early part of this loop ride in Kerhonkson, in the Southern Catskills. Then the woods give way to farmland and grazing cattle.