The American Tobacco Trail | All 22.5 Miles Explored!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- My last day in North Carolina I took the Marlin 6 on a long distance ride, (about 45 miles with the return trip), on the American Tobacco Trail from it's southern most trail head. This is an overview of what you'll encounter if you ride the entire trail from south to north. It's a beautiful ride from rural North Carolina to Downtown Durham.
Thank you for the great detailed information.
Thank you for watching.
Thank you for an excellent review.
You're welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Great video & content sir extremely informative I’ve learned a lot thanks so much keep up the good work & never stop biking 🙌🏽
Thank you so much. I'm glad you got something out of the video. And, I plan to never stop biking, even if after my body says NO!, I'll just get an e-bike 😉
Thanks u inspired me. Im going to ride it this weekend
It’s a great ride. Hopefully the construction detour is gone. Have a great time and Keep Bikin’!
Thank you for your video! I just discovered this trail, even though I've lived near the starting point for a year. I'm getting my first bike and can't wait to start riding!
Thank you for watching! You're really going to enjoy this trail. From urban to suburban to rural all in one ride. Keep Bikin'!
Great video. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for watching!
Awesome video. I walk 5 miles of this trail a day.
+driveneco Thank you and thanks for watching. You all have a gem of a trail system down there!
@@RoaminLama great video. I mainly stick w apex and cary portion so it was really cool to see the durham part. thanks gain.
I would love to ride this trail at some point as a part of East coast Greenway. 👍
Your really should. It's a great trail.
I’ll try this trail on my road bike. I’ve wanted to ride from my home in Holly Springs to Chapel Hill but just couldn’t figure out a good way. 751 and Farrrington are so narrow with car speeds of 55 so solo rides feel inadvisable.
Well done. Good job.
Thank you and thanks for watching!
I got into a fight on the tobacco trail a few years back. I started an argument with a passerby. Unfortunately, he ended up whooping my ass and leaving me for dead. I work up in the hospital 6 days later with 14 staples in my head... o well, we live and learn.
Holy Sh$t!!!! Live and learn indeed. Ya can't blame the trail for that one though. Good to know some passersby called for help and got you to the hospital.Hope you're doing well today and still ride the trails.
Barely….
I rode this trail something like 5 years ago, and I don’t recall all that riding on city sidewalks through heavily developed areas until the end of the line in Durham. I remember it as being all former railroad right of way. The day we rode (a friend asked me to come ride with her), we had two or three “uncomfortable” encounters with locals who clearly weren’t there to enjoy the trail, in the Durham section! I hope they’ve gotten that under control by now, but having worked in the Bull City for a couple years in the late 80’s, I’m not overly optimistic! It’s a nice trail, but if I ever ride it again, I’d skip the north few miles into Durham. Oh, almost forgot, on another shorter ride a couple years prior to the trip I mentioned, I got hit by a golf ball while riding on the southern part beside a driving range or golf course! The trail was littered with golf balls in that area! That wouldn’t keep me from returning though! Lol
About how long did this take you to finish? I usually just go from olive chapel to white oak church and turn back 😅 but i feel like i can do the whole trail
I took me an hour and fifty minutes to go from the southern most trailhead to Durham. The return trip took two hours and ten minutes, (legs getting tired).
Where do I start?
How far would you like to ride? In the video I list all the road crossing that have trailhead parking. And here is a map of the entire trail via TrailLink: www.traillink.com/trail-maps/american-tobacco-trail/
If it’s not fully paved, it’s not for us.
Enjoy.
It is paved for 14 of the 22 miles. (Between New Hope Church Road and the Durham end of the trail). There is trailhead parking at New Hope Church Road as well. And the gravel section south of that, is easily the smoothest gravel I've ever ridden.
I’ve tried enjoying this trail . So much pedestrian traffic . I don’t recommend a road bike on this trail !!!
I got lucky the day I rode it. It was a weekday, so traffic was down I’m sure compared to a weekend.
Sound like a driver complaining about cyclists
Dirtbikes allowed?
Sorry, just pedestrian and equestrian traffic.
@@RoaminLama do you know places around there that allow dirt bikes?
+Rex Society I don’t live in that area, I made that video when I was down there visiting family. There’s a great app called On X Off-road that will show you all the trails in your area.
@@RoaminLama oh sweet! Thanks for letting me know.