I just spent a week riding through the woods from Pittsburgh to DC (where I'm very happily caffeinating at the moment on coffee from Tryst on 18th Street). It's an amazing ride through beautiful forests, totally car-free for over 300 miles. The first leg is the
Great Allegheny Passage, 123 miles from McKeesport, PA to Cumberland, MD. It's on an old railroad grade, about a 1% grade as you go east - so gentle you barely notice it. It follows the Youghiogeny River (or 'the Yock' as Dr. Goff kindly informed me). Surface good, forest beautiful, lots of campsites:
Because it's a railroad grade, there are big bridges and viaducts to ride over, just for hikers and cyclists. Having infrastructure like this,
just for bikes, feels like some combination of Christmas, Mardi Gras, and the Fourth of July.
Seriously, that bridge is just for you to ride your bike over.
A rare photo of me, snapped by a friendly utility worker I met as the trail passes through West Newton.
Apparently George Washington ambushed and killed a bunch of French scouts around here in 1754, helping to start the French and Indian war.
Because it's a railroad grade, there are big bridges and viaducts to ride over, just for hikers and cyclists. Having infrastructure like this, just for bikes, feels like some combination of Christmas, Mardi Gras, and the Fourth of July. 
Seriously, that bridge is just for you to ride your bike over.
A rare photo of me, snapped by a friendly utility worker I met as the trail passes through West Newton.
Apparently George Washington ambushed and killed a bunch of French scouts around here in 1754, helping to start the French and Indian war.
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