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Route description: Raptor Center
A Microsoft Word document with this cue sheet done up in a table can be had by clicking HERE.
Two Microsoft Excel files are also available with route options that do not include the bike path for those who want to ride faster. Thanks to Bill Kelly for all this! Click for Sheet 1 or Sheet 2.
(Instructions for the computing challenged: Clicking on the link should launch the application (Word or Excel) if you have it. If you don't, you'll get an error. Or, right click on the link (or click-and-hold if you have a Macintosh) and select the option to download or save the file to your disk and deal with it separately.)
26.5 miles, bike paths and streets
Ride time: Approximately 2+ hours (bike path speeds)
Meet at George Washington’s headquarters in Morristown.
Go right on road (watch out for high speed traffic)
then first left down to GWH parking lot.
R Out of parking Lot
X Cross street to sidewalk
R Towards Apt. complex
L Into complex down road
R Into cul de sac
ZERO ODOMETER AT TRAIL HEAD
LEG -- MILES -- TURN
0.0 ----- 0.0 ----- - ----- Trail begins on left
1.8 ----- 1.8 ----- R ----- At Convent RR St.
0.5 ----- 2.3 ----- X ----- Thru traffic light onto Canfield Rd.
0.3 ----- 2.6 ----- L ----- Onto Fox Hollow Rd.
0.1 ----- 2.7 ----- L ----- Woodland
0.0 ----- 2.7 ----- QR ----- Trail Entrance
0.5 ----- 3.2 ----- L ----- At circle (Collecting Point)
0.1 ----- 3.3 ----- X ----- Thru park cross road, continue onto trail
1.1 ----- 4.4 ----- R----- At paved cross trail
0.5 ----- 4.9 ----- X ----- Walk bike across road, back on trail
1.4 ----- 6.3 ----- R ----- Onto road (Collecting Point)
0.8 ----- 7.1 ----- L----- On road across from Deli
0.3 ----- 7.4 ----- R ----- Woodland
0.6 ----- 8.0----- R ----- Miller
Here is where riders could head back to shorten the ride if needed.
Instead of L on Pleasantville go R about .02 mile then right on Village Rd.
Use return route from mileage 19.4
This cutoff shortens the overall ride to 15 miles.
0.4 ----- 8.4 ----- L ----- Pleasantville
1.8 ----- 10.2 ---- L ----- Longhill
2.3 ----- 12.5 ---- R ------Whitebridge
1.4 ----- 13.9 ----- -- ----- RAPTORS (Collecting Point & bathrooms)
Head back same route
1.4 ----- 15.3 ----- L ----- Longhill
2.4 ----- 17.7 ----- R ----- Pleasantville
2.3 ----- 19.4 ----- R ----- Village Road (Collecting Point)
At the end of Village Road we could a stop at the Deli
0.6 ----- 20.0 ----- L ----- Spring Valley (Sweeping right)
0.8 ----- 20.8 ----- S ----- Straight
Instead of straight, riders could go R about .05 mi. to the Loanataka trail.
Then use mileage 23.2 but right at circle to continue to GWH parking.
Total mileage the same
1.6 ----- 22.4 ----- R ----- Sweeping down grade turn
0.0 ----- 22.4 ----- R ----- Into Loantaka park (Collecting Point & bathrooms)
0.1 ----- 22.5 ----- S----- Through park, back on trail
0.2 ----- 22.7 ----- L ----- On trail
0.5 ----- 23.2 ----- L ----- Left at circle
0.1 ----- 23.3 ----- L ----- On road then quick R on Fox Hollow
0.8 ----- 24.1 ----- R ----- Canfield
0.1 ----- 24.2 ----- S ----- Straight thru traffic light
0.1 ----- 24.3 ----- L ----- After train station on trail
2.2 ----- 26.5 ----- -- ----- End of trail
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