Bicycle Touring & Bikepacking
Bicycle Touring - a great way to travel
Hemingway is right - bicycle touring may be the best way to travel and it's making a comeback. You might simply grab your backpack and ride to a friends house in a nearby town or load up with camping gear and strike off across country. You might opt to "credit card" tour and ride from inn to inn. As riders have discovered cyclocross and adventure/gravel bikes, they've realized that those same bikes are great for touring. With wider tires they can handle packed gravel rail trails, fire roads and roads with equal aplomb. Rack mounts provide connections for racks and panniers, or you can simply velcro frame bags to a mountain bike and you're ready for adventure on a bikepacking trip. Here at Gus' we aren't just fans of bike touring & bikepacking - we do it.
Tour of the Champlain Islands, VT.
Ride north from Burlington, Vermont on the Island Line Trail across Lake Champlain and onto the Hero Islands for a long weekend.
Vermont and Quebec's Eastern Townships
Heading North from the Hero Islands into Quebec you can access miles of marked bike routes and paths.
The Erie Canal
Ride across New York on The Erie Canal trail. The backbone of the Empire State Trail.
Cycling the Hudson River Valley (DRAFT)
The newest section of the Empire State Trail runs from Albany to New York City
P'tit Train Du Nord
North of Montreal you'll find the perfect spot for your first bicycle tour.
Great Allegheny Passage
It's billed as "The ride of your life" a 150 mile rail trail through welcoming trail towns, tunnels and over 1 amazing viaduct.
C & O Canal
After completing the Great Allegheny Passage, follow in the footsteps of George Washington along the C&O Canal all the way to Washington, D.C.
Bikepacking Bear Brook State Park
A Bikepacking trip to Bear Brook State Park is a great overnighter
Spring Fall Packing List
Spring and Fall can bring wide variations in weather. Here's our packing list.
