FLCC> Ridgeway Trail

[Ernie Bayles]

Elly,

It's been a while, but we used to live out there.  Only the sections 
between ridgeway going south to White Church (about a mile) and then 
south of White Church another mile or so are actually rideable.  Go any 
furhter south and you will typically get into unbikeable swamp.  Travel 
to the north is nearly impossible except for the most intrepid, 
Shackeltoneske types only.   In the winter, the southern section can 
freeze over and then you can continue for a long ways on the snowmobile 
trails.  To Candor and beyond. The sections that you can bike are pretty 
stony and often have lots of vegetative obstacles, but are well worth 
riding.  It's an interesting area with lots of wildlife.  Mountain bike 
would probably be best, but we've ridden these trails on everything from 
12" kids bikes to tandem.  It's dead flat.  The section south of White 
Church is probably the nicest riding though it's just out and back.

Ernie

Elly Cramer wrote:

>Has anyone biked the Ridgeway rail-trail? I'm curious what the conditions
>are like?  Would a hybrid be ok?
>
>http://www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail.aspx?trailid=XFP002-223
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>Thanks!
>
>elly
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