Vermont villages are spaced an easy pedaling-distance apart, and our extensive network of lightly-trafficked "farm to market" back roads provides a virtually inexhaustible supply of on-road bicycle routes.
Add to this an abundance of friendly country inns and intimate beds and breakfasts as well as clean lakeside campgrounds, and you've got a recipe for world-class bicycling adventures.
Bike Paths
Popular multi-use paths have been built along the shore of Lake Champlain in Burlington and paralleling the Mountain Road in Stowe. Other recreation paths are found in Barre, Colchester, Shelburne, Essex, Williston, South Burlington and Montpelier. Nearly three dozen new recreation paths and rail trail projects are either under construction or being planned and designed in communities throughout Vermont.
Rail Trails
Several of Vermont's abandoned railway corridors have been converted to bike paths. These routes are highly scenic and devoid of traffic.
- East Alburg to Alburg, 7 mile length along the former
Central Vermont/Rutland Railway
- Richford to St. Albans, 26 mile length along the former
Richford branch of the Central Vermont Railway (see Missisquoi
Valley Rail Trail)
- Burlington Waterfront Bikeway, 7.3 mile length along
the former Rutland Railway and the shores of Lake Champlain
- Groton State Forest (Danville, Groton, Peacham, Marshfield,
Orange, Plainfield and Topsham) The 7.5 mile long Montpelier-Wells
River Railroad bed is a multi-use trail that offers lots of wildlife
viewing opportunities and is part of the Cross-Vermont Trail.
Shorter trails and forest roads are accessible in the five campgrounds
in this area
- Jamaica State Park (Jamaica) An historic railroad bed
provides 3 miles of trail suitable for bikes and strollers as
well as walkers
- Castleton to Poultney & West Pawlet to West Rupert, two
segments totaling 19.8 miles along the former Delaware & Hudson
Railroad
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