Trip Reports on 
Grand Tour of Columbia County

Terry, July 2007: 

Thanks for posting the GREAT q sheet for Columbia County. It's the best ride around! I rode it this weekend. Happy to report there are no changes. The bridge on wire road is fine, shoulders are still as noted on the q sheet. Here's another bike shop: Bill's Bike Shop Ghent on left after mile 46.5 518 392 2692 Would recommend Jimapco map of Columbia County www.jimapco.com for your ride. It's easy to carry and has every road on your q sheet.

For those without a car, your ride is accessible by train via the Wassaic line (Runs from Grand Central to Wassaic see MetroNorth Train schedule). Here's a q sheet to get to mile 68.9 Copake where you can start the Grand Tour:

August 2006:  problems with bridge on Wire Rd near Livingston in southwest Columbia county:

not crossable with a bicycle as of August 2006:

See more Reports about bridge on Wire Rd.

Ken Roberts, June 2005:

Sharon and I rode this route on a weekend day and had a great time. We noticed that several towns have additional food opportunities. We tried visiting Chatham, and we want to include it again next time we do this route, even if we're yet not sure what roads are good for getting there.

Ken Roberts, August 2001:  

Sharon and I rode this route with several variations years ago in our early explorations of Columbia County, and we have wonderful memories of it -- but that was before we were writing trip reports.  Since then we've been focusing more on creating shorter routes which more people can enjoy -- so we have no recent trip reports to put here. 

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