Mountain Biking Eastern New York: Seventy-Four Epic Rides From North Jersey And Long Island To The Adirondacks

by Michael Margulis

Overview

Profiles over 70 of the best rides in the Adirondacks, the Catskills, Long Island, Westchester, and environs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762722648
Publisher:	Falcon Guides
Publication date:	09/01/2002
Series:	Regional Mountain Biking Series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	1,086,929
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Margulis is a softwar engineer, writer, karate blackbelt, and veteran mountain biker and hiker. He lives with his wife Barbara and daughters Alize and Chloe in Forest Hills, New York.

Table of Contents

	List of Maps	ix
	Map Legend	xi
	Ride Location Map	xii
	Preface	xv
	Acknowledgments	xvi
	Introduction	1
	Trail Description Outline	1
	Abbreviations	3
	Topographic Maps	3
	Trail Etiquette	4
	Hitting the Trail	5
	Long Island Tours	8
1	Nassau-Suffolk Greenbelt Trail	10
2	Stillwell Spaghetti	16
3	Glacier 8 Trail	22
4	Pandora's Box	26
5	Rocky Point	32
6	Edgewood Oak Brush Plains Preserve	36
7	Southaven County Park	40
8	Fire Island National Seashore	44
9	Navy Cooperative Area Trails	49
10	Surf and Turf	54
11	Northwest by Northwest	60
12	Caumsett State Park	65
	Northern New Jersey Tours	70
13	Allamuchy Mountain State Park	72
14	High Point State Park	77
15	The Labyrinth	83
16	Wawayanda Yahoo	89
	Westchester Area Tours	94
17	Bedford Country Road Ramble	96
18	Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Park	99
19	Indian Brook Road Loop	105
20	The Mianus Maze	109
21	Babcock Preserve	115
22	Taconic-Hereford MUA	119
23	Ye Olde Croton Aqueduct	123
24	Blue Mountain Nirvana	127
25	Alberto's Favorite	133
26	The Old "Put" Path	137
27	Ninham Mountain MUA	141
28	Hubbard-Perkins Conservation Area	145
29	Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park	149
	Shawangunk Mountain Tours	152
30	Bonticou Road Tour	154
31	Land of Oz	160
32	The Trapps	166
33	Shangri-La	171
34	Wallkill Valley Rail Trail	177
	Catskill Region Tours	180
35	North Lake Trails	182
36	Overlook Mountain Ascent	186
37	High Point Kanape Brook Trail	189
38	Vernooykill Falls Trail	193
39	The Holy Land	197
40	Bashakill	203
41	Flugertown Road	207
42	Willowemoc Road	211
43	The Denning Trail	215
44	Vertigo at Plattekill	218
45	The D & H Heritage Corridor	223
	Adirondack Region Tours	227
46	Johnson Pond-Paradox Tour	229
47	The Wild One	232
48	The Bark Eater Backroads	237
49	The Mystery of Pine Pond	241
50	McKenzie Mountain Loop	245
51	Scarface	249
52	The Peninsula Trails	254
53	A Day at the Races	258
54	Whiteface--A Place in the Sun	262
55	The Flume Fall	266
56	The Bloomingdale Bog Trail	270
57	The Deer Pond Odyssey	274
58	Moss Lake	278
59	Safford Pond Trail	283
60	The Uncas Tour	287
61	The Limekiln Loop	293
62	Moose River Medley	298
63	Journey to Stillwater Reservoir	304
64	Bloodsucker Passage	309
65	Black River Wild Forest	314
66	Cedar River Flow	319
67	Sargent Ponds Wild Forest	323
68	The Osgood/Jackrabbit Run	327
69	Sweet Oseetah	332
70	Kushaqua Loop Trail	336
71	The Great Santanoni	340
72	Perkins Clearing	344
73	Lapland Lake	348
74	The Inner Circle	353
	Glossary	358
	About the Author	363