Hello we are going to ride our bikes from NY to New Orleans via Miami and was wondering what time of year would be best for this?
and any advice on this trip would be awesome!!!
cheers Bruce NZ

 

I would go in the fall if it were me. Weather is usually not too hot, not too cold at your starting point of NY and is a cooler time of year in FLA and LA.


Can't really advise you on a route through PA and MD, but you should pick up Skyline Drive in Front Royal VA and take it and the Blue Ridge Parkway down into NC for sure. Beautiful country and some of the best riding the eastern US offers.


Have fun!

 

How long are you planning for this trip? Is it round trip or one way, what route are you planning?

 

summer.

 

about 3 weeks NY to New Orleans vis Miami and wouldn't have the faintest bout route;-)
cheers

 

Three weeks will give you time to sight see for sure.

 

you'll want to shoot for sometime before it starts snowing in New York (early/mid Oct) but after it cools off some in the LA. If you shoot for leaving NY the first few days of Oct I would think you'd be find but can't guarantee it. It'll still be in the low/mid 90's at that time in New Orleans probably. If 95 degree heat with 75% or greater humidity doesn't bother you, then anytime in the summer would work. It doesn't really start getting to god awful hot here in the southern US until July so you're other option would be to shoot for late April/early May.

 

October can be damn cold in the NE of the US. Hell it was cold in July in Virginia and North Carolina.

I'd go for late spring early summer like May or June. I'd rather be hot and soaked than cold any day. Even North Florida can be chilly in October.

I guess your route will take you through to the Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway and then cut across to TN and NC and do the Dragon, then over to Alabama and across to New Orleans. If you're planning to return to New York I am not sure you'll also have time to come as far south as Miami. Why do you want to come to Miami there's nothing here except straight flat roads? Unless you are thinking of Key West. If you are be prepared for 2-3 gruelling days from the GA/FL state line to Key West, more if you are coming from Alabama.

 

might give these guys a shout..Mike's been all over the country on a bike and he's from your neck of the woods...


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