Promoting long distance unsupported cycling in the Pittsburgh region
The Seven Mountains 600K is a new, 'adventure style' mixed surface route, combining 72% pavement, 21% rail trail, and about 7% gravel road. It starts in Delmont and follows a familiar route to Ebensburg using the Westmoreland Heritage, West Penn, and Ghost Town trails. From Ebensburg you head mostly south towards Bedford, reaching the highest...Read more
Another new 100K for 2024. This one lets us explore in the south a bit...starting with familiar roads through New Eagle and Monongahela (with a sad tip-o'-the-helmet to the temporarily closed Sheetz), then up the Mon River through Charleroi and Belle Vernon to the tiny town of Roscoe and the first significant climb of the...Read more
Introduced last year, we'll start at the Aquatorium in Monogahela. We'll head west, skirting Washington PA, until turning southbound at the West Virginia border through the Castleman's Run Nature Preserve, heading towards a controle stop at the bustling TA Travel Plaza near Valley Grove. From there, more country roads to the next controle at the...Read more