Lehigh Gorge Bike Adventure 44 miles
Lehigh Gorge State Park, Jim Thorpe, PA
This all day Fall adventure starts in Jim Thorpe, PA. Bikers will ride on the rails to trails route along the Lehigh River to White Haven where we will have lunch at a pizza/sandwich place before retracing our route back to our cars. If you have never done this ride or if it has been awhile, you owe it to yourself to do it. After the ride, there should be time and energy to enjoy the town of Jim Thorpe, have a beer and maybe dinner.
Some more information
**Wear your Hi Viz club jersey if you can. We want to look cool.
**Check Google maps for travel times to Jim Thorpe. Glen Onoko Access Loop is the ride start location that you can put in your mapping app. (about 2 hours)
**There are a couple of parking areas on the right hand side of the Park access road, park in the last one.
**Arrive early enough so that you can unload your bike, use the facilities and be ready to go a little before 9. There might be donuts and a bit of a travelogue before we start.
**There should be facilities at the start, also, about halfway to White Haven and, of course, at the pizza place.
**The trail surface is similar to the D & R canal trail here in Hunterdon Co. I think a hybrid bike would be ideal, but a road bike would also be OK. Wider tires are better than thinner tires.
**There is a 2% up grade to White Haven, the return trip is all down hill.
**E-bikes are allowed.
**This is a sightseeing ride, there are a couple of waterfalls and other Kodak moments.
**There are no stores along the route until White Haven, so have your water and ride snacks on the bike.
**Have money for lunch
**You probably will want to have a change of clothes and walking shoes for after the ride.
**This is COAL COUNTRY, read up on the Molly Maguires. Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) was a part of this 1860s-1870s labor conflict. There is an excellent 1970 movie called Molly Maguires w/Sean Connery.
