Rail Trail Series: WALKWAY TO ROSENDALE TRESTLE 33

When
04/27/2021
9:30 AM
Location
9:30: Assembly at east end of Walkway parking lot
Spaces left
16
Registered
2 registrants

Registration

Rosendale Trestle 33

Registration is closed

Starting at the East side of the “Walkway over the Hudson” in Poughkeepsie, we cycle West on the Hudson Valley Rail Trail to New Paltz and then North on the Wallkill Valley Trail to the Rosendale Trestle. Wallkill is packed dirt/gravel, so road or gravel bikes are suitable. Road bikes should be fine on the Wallkill Valley Trail unless previous days were very rainy. In that case people on road bikes could ride on the parallel paved road, which is a quiet country road.

On the way back we will be riding through Huguenot Street just before we arrive at the Clemson Bros. Brewery for lunch. Some of the Hudson Valley’s earliest European settlers, the Huguenots, arrived in New Paltz not long after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. They were called the Huguenots (or, less frequently, the Walloons), French-speaking Calvinist Protestants who fled religious persecution and established a colony in New Paltz just 57 years after Plymoth Plantation was founded. What’s more, they left behind a collection of late 17th-century stone houses on the village’s Huguenot Street, which has been recognized as the oldest authentic street in America.

RELATED WEBSITES: http://www.walkway.org/ https://wallkillvalleylt.org/wvrt/

DISTANCE: 33 miles, of which 6.5 are “on road”. Also, about 12 miles on gravel/dirt

PACE: 12-15

LEVEL: C+ and above

CUE SHEET/MAP: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/35791098

APPROXIMATE SCHEDULE:

9:30/45: Assembly at east end of Walkway parking lot

10:00: Begin Ride

11:45/Noon: Arrive Rosendale

Noon/12:15: Depart back to New Paltz

1:00 Arrive New Paltz—Lunch

2:15/30: Depart New Paltz