Hot showers. 100+ acres for camping. Some electric available. One 175 year old rustic log cabin with water/electric etc..
Hot showers. 100+ acres for camping. Some electric available. One 175 year old rustic log cabin with water/electric etc..
Big Cork Vineyards produces award-winning Maryland wine. We offer outstanding customer service in a beautiful setting, where our guests can relax and wine and live music.
A loop from College Park up toward Chambersburg, Carlilse, York and then back to the start.
A route from Chesapeake City, MD to Crisfield MD on Maryland's Eastern Shore. I will continue to add waypoints as time allows.
A Maryland scenic byway route on Maryland's Eastern shore, which runs approximately 60 miles.
388.6 miles for them that are curious.
A map image overlaid onto a google map with the correct aspect ratio. Pretty cool.
Duncan and I rode out North and West on a freakishly warm December day to find yet another set of truly wonderful roads. Especially the roads heading North from 68 and then west along 30 were just wonderful.
On Columbus Day, Duncan and I did a short little 117 mile ride through some surprisingly nice tree covered roads hiding between areas of suburban sprawl. While none of these roads would make for a destination, if you happen to be around Annapolis, they might make for a nice afternoon excursion. Chesterfield Road and Johns Hopkins Roads are particularly nice.
We did a lot of doubling back as we explored these little roads. There was little traffic, many cross streets, and driveways, but regardless it turned out to be a very nice fall ride.
Joel and his father John came down to Maryland from New Hampshire. While John was in class, Joel and I took a little ride out to Western Maryland despite the weather forecast. The early part of the day was entertaining. We ended up on Harpers Ferry Road which is this bouncy hilly twisty little fun road where the crests are so narrow you're likely to catch air if you're not careful. We found our way to Berkeley Springs for lunch at which point the rain started, more of a drizzle really. We followed Route 9 for quite some time trying various dead end side roads. We eventually found our way to Bear Hill Road which was quite nice but at this point it had started to rain consistently. As the sun went down into a soggy horizon we opted to super slab it back.
Why didn't anyone ever tell me the roads in the Western Maryland Panhandle were so good?
buffaloare I took our sport touring bikes (he on his 2009 BMW K1300S and me on my 1992 BMW K100RS) and rode out from the DC area to exit 34 on route 68 just past Cumberland Maryland. I had see Savage River Road on a map another member here posted and wanted to check it out. I thought it might turn into gravel but it turned out to be just a wonderful little twisty hilly tree covered mountain road that went on for a good ways along a mountain stream. In higher elevations the leaves were already starting to turn so some corners appeared treacherous.
This went on for quite some time and that road is worth the trip out there alone. It just a stunningly beautiful area. Duncan had never seen Deep Creek Lake before so we made our way out there and had lunch at the Pine Lodge Steakhouse. I had been there last year.
From there we took Sang Run Road to White Rock Road and once again found ourselves in just wonderfully hilly tree covered mountainous terrain. This trend continued to the Westernmost border of Maryland and through West Virginia as we made our way South.
We took Route 7 east. This was a bigger less interesting road which eventually turned into 39 and then 135. Once we turned off on 38 the roads got good again and this trend continued on until we reached 220 at which point it was time to head back home.
All told our loop was just under 420 miles and we hardly noticed the distance. Over the last few weeks we've just had the best luck finding great roads, but this area around the Western Panhandle will need to be explored a little more thoroughly.
buffalo (Duncan), who helps me run Miles by Motorcycle, and I took our #dr650se's out across White's Ferry near Poolesville, Maryland to go in search of gravel roads to ride in the area North of Leesburg, Va and South of Frederick, Maryland. We were surprised at the number of tree covered gravel country roads there are in this area. Some went up into the hills and had some nice elevation changes. All were tame and easily traversed by car but it was a beautiful ride nonetheless. Is suspect there are more challenging roads hiding in the hills to the West.
Duncan and I went on a 250 mile random loop ride where we just followed random roads in Pennsylvania and Maryland. This turned out to be a fantastic ride of some wonderfully twisty little tree covered roads especially in the upper left quadrant of the map. In places the tree canopy covered the road creating a tree tunnel effect.
buffalo and I went on a 305 mile loop ride with a group of riders led by Jim Ford of the Riders Workshop ( http://ridersworkshop.com ).
Jim's ability to stitch together small sections of twisty roads into a cohesive tour is truly impressive. It's hard to believe there are all these small gnarly roads so close to DC.
We spent a day riding a system of gravel roads near Frederick Maryland. All told there are about 15 miles of mild gravel roads with gentle hills and one smal...
buffalo and I spent a day riding 15 miles of gravel roads around the Frederick Muncipal Watershed near Frederick Maryland.
Weekend gravel roads rides up to Catoctin State Park near Thurmont Maryland. Surprisingly, we found many more miles of nice gravel roads than we had expected. Find Mountaindale road which connects to route 15 via Putman Road. It goes through a neighborhood of log cabins and is more like a driveway than a traveling road. At the end it turns to gravel (where the green line starts). There you will find a system of gravel roads with a few hills and one stream crossing (marked). In the fall it proved to be a beautiful area. Be aware of joggers and riders on horseback.