Biking The Empire State Trail - Buffalo to New York City
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ต.ค. 2023
- In June of 2023 I biked from Buffalo to NYC on the Empire State Trail. Here is a slideshow presentation showing trail conditions, some opinions on bike trail design, urban planning, landscape design, and general trail interest! More info with my diary here:
www.nybike.world/post/empire-...
I hope you enjoy my slideshow and comment!
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Thanks for taking us thru your journey. I did not know this trail existed. Nice to know.
Thanks for this! Planning this trip for summer 2024
I hope you get some good info here for your trip!
I am also. I am taking the two weeks after Memorial Day to do the tourist thing. I am from Maine and love upstate NY
Good I'm glad you found this informative.@@danalaine2403
Nice video. Planning on this trip in 2024. Thanks for the details!
if you are looking for detailed info go to my website at www.nybike.world
I appreciate the time you put into this overview of the EST. I have been considering it for my next multi-day ride (after RAGBRAI in a few weeks).
I just finished the C&O/GAP about 2 weeks ago, as well as riding on the Hudson - north from Jersey City, across the GWB, and through Central Park and around Manhattan this past weekend. Agree about water availability issues! There were a few multi-mode fountains near DC on the C&O, but potable water was scarce on several parts of the C&O/GAP trail system without having to detour into a town. Also, I could not find a single functional water fountain in NYC/Greenway Trail/Central Park, except for nice bottle filling spigots BEHIND the public toilets at the Pier 15 Esplanade on the East River Greenway, which I found by accident.
I like those tall pedestal type fountains, which can provide a "bubbler", water bottle filling station, as well as a wheelchair/child height bubbler, and a dog bowl thing. Amazed (or not) at the lack of infrastructure for non-auto transportation in so many areas. Given that those water fountains retail for $4-6K each, not including running the water line, plumbing it, mounting it, I can see why many areas wouldn't have them.
I do prefer bucolic, shaded single track gravel over over a paved path near a busy highway any day!
Thanks again for this very helpful info!
Nice breakdown. I would like to do Buffalo to Albany. Just finished the GAP/C&O. Great trip! I personally like the single and double track trails. Well done, thanks for sharing.
Buffalo to Albany is fun, but i Iiked the Albany to NYC leg more.
@@NewYorkBikeWorld I’ll have to consider that leg as well, thx.
Great video, thanks for making the trip report
thank you very much. It means a lot to me that you looked through it and I hope you can get some insights. for more info go to my website at www.nybike.world
Thank you for your help!
I hope it was informative. By far my biggest issue was chafing and saddle sores. Make sure to wear bike shorts and use chamois cream!
This video is n uch appreciated, I’m trying to go from NYC to buffalo, but trying to save some money by camping a bit. Did you notice any decent campgrounds along the trail itself?
there is a lot of camping along the canal. Parks and Trails New York has a nifty map which you should study if you try to camping/bikepacking along the trail
www.ptny.org/cycle-the-erie-canal/camping
i decided to not camp. i would budget at minimum $120 a night for hotel if you don't camp. I didn't do the camping thing but it looked like a lot of people were having fun camping, some of the campgrounds have bathrooms and I think showers.
Thanks for the info. I will be camping for the 2 weeks of my trip, first bikepacking tour
Subscribed! Thanks for the great content!
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