Bicycling the Cumberland Gap Trail

[snubbyfan]

My wife and I have been wanting to get the bikes out but with all the rain we've been having, the C&O Canal Towpath, our local trail's been a muddy sloppy mess.
Yesterday was a beautiful day with perfect biking weather. We decided to load up the bikes and head on out to Cumberland Maryland to ride the GAP trail.
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[16thVACav]

Looked like a great day to be out and about!

 

[cballman]

Snubby have you all been on the Little Miami trail that starts near Cincinnati? It ends up near Xenia Ohio. Our scout troop did a few miles on it years ago for the Cycling merit badge. I drove with water and tools for repair if needed. If you look into it there is a dairy farm that has a restaurant and other things that has some of the best ice cream I have ever tasted.

 

[BAM-BAM]

Go West young man go West!!!!!!


Great Allegheny Passage; Cumberland to Pittsburgh.......2 or 3 offshoot trails....... longest add 40 miles to Butler Pa (rails to trails) and there is the 70 mile Laurel Highlands trail that runs N/S through Ohiopyle.

 

[snubbyfan]

Go West young man go West!!!!!!


Great Allegheny Passage; Cumberland to Pittsburgh.......2 or 3 offshoot trails....... longest add 40 miles to Butler Pa (rails to trails) and there is the 70 mile Laurel Highlands trail that runs N/S through Ohiopyle.

Cumberland is West of us. We havta go east to get back to West Virginia....

 

[Muley Gil]

In the 1860s, when West Virginia was cut out of Virginia, most of the voters in Jefferson, Hampshire, Morgan and Berkley counties were unable to cast their ballots, due to the fact that they were serving in the Confederate military. The Federal government especially wanted these counties since the Shenandoah Valley was considered the gateway to the North.