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Routes for bicycling
- Bear Mountain Bridge to Newburgh-Beacon Bridge,
loop on both sides of the Hudson river -- 42 miles, hilly. Spectacular views of the Hudson River,
from every angle. Rocks, trees, castles, two great bridge crossings, and West Point.
2700 vertical feet, hill
index 4.0. Start points Beacon or Cold Spring Metro North train
stations, Bear
Mountain State Park, Newburgh. [ Description
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- Quaker Ridge -- 45 miles, hilly. Lots of
beautiful scenes on quiet back roads -- in southeast Dutchess County and Connecticut.
3300 vertical feet, hill
index 4.2. Start points Pawling, Dover Plains, Brewster, Kent CT.
[ Description | Map ]
The Brewster finish
variation for the Quaker Ridge route adds 15 miles, for a total of 60
miles.
Off-road paths
Routes reached by Trains from New York City
One very helpful thing about Putnam county is that it is served by
two train lines from New York City -- so this can be a convenient way for many
bicyclists to reach Putnam county. See Routes
from Trains.
Other People's Routes
Has maps of current and proposed routes, especially off-road paths.
[ we'd be glad to include more links here -- by all means tell us about
other routes you know about. ]
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Here's some bicycle shops we found in phone directories around 2003:
Bikeway - -
Mahopac, NY Village Bikes - - Brewster, NY Bodies in Motion - - Patterson, NY
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Taxi services
Calling a taxi services can be very helpful for bicycling:
- when your bicycle gets messed up bad enough so you cannot ride
it -- or weather turns real bad -- and you still need to get home or
back to your car.
- to get to and from train stations.
- to set up one-way tours.
It's usually easier to call a taxi
if you have some phone numbers of taxi services in the area you're riding. A way to get a list is to do a search for "taxi" on a directory of business
phone numbers such as Superpages.com
-- Here's some towns and cities in this county on which might be helpful to
search:
Paterson, Brewster, Carmel, Cold Spring (all in New York state)
Here's some taxi services we found in phone directories around 2003:
- Route 22 Taxi, Paterson, NY
- Route 22 Cab, Brewster, NY
- Manny's Taxi, Brewster, NY
- Orbes Taxi, Brewster, NY
- Express Taxi Service, Brewster, NY
- Brewster Taxi
- A-1 Taxi - - Brewster, NY
- Brookside Taxi, Carmel, NY
- R E C Taxi, Carmel, NY
- Highland Transit Corp
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Tourism -- Visit Putnam
County
Bicycling
event -- Tour de Putnam
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