Deleware Water Gap Nat Rec Area
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I might add also, that I'm not some country bumpkin who thinks that a town of 30,000 is the big city. I've been going to New York for years. I'm an outside sales rep & have worked 4 of the 5 boroughs in New York, my company has a showroom in Manhattan, I still go there several times a year, and I don't have any hesitation driving to New York, but when it comes to bein' near there on my bike ..................... knowing what I know, I wouldn't do it.
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Hey etstrine ---- You can do better. Personally, I wouldn't touch the Water Gap & Jersey with a 10 foot pole --- too much New York City idiot-driver traffic over there. It'll be a great ride if you stay west of the Poconos in PA, eastern NY, NJ, and even southern CT --- it's all NYC traffic. I live in upstate, N Central PA. From York, I'd take 30 west over to 15, and then 15 all the way up into Corning NY & then work my way up toward Watertown NY, over to Lake Placid, and take the ferry across Lake Champlain, at Fort Ticonderoga, into VT. Then you have upstate VT, NH, and into upstate ME. You can still get over toward the coast & get a few lobsters for dinner (you might even see a moose or 2), but you don't have to mess with 95, New York traffic, etc. Great riding in upstate PA & upstate NY. It'll be a much more relaxed way to get into New England. If you want to avoid idiots & road rage, that's what I'd do, but I'm not a city rider ---- I can do interstates, but you have no idea what traffic is like until you get over near New York. Even the water gap is bedroom NY. Hope it helps. Just my opinion. People who live over there & ride in that traffic might have a different opinion. Just depends on how you want to ride.
.Although if you take 95 back, anything from Portland ME south pretty much sucks.
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From York you can take I-81 to I-84. Get off in Port Jervis and take 6 to 97 which runs along the water. You can stop and look down over the cliffs, people rafting, etc. Have lunch at Hawk's nest. From there I would head east on 30 (at East Branch) and it is a beautiful ride through the Catskill Mts into the Adirondacks. You can take 30 all the way to I-88. Take 88 and connect with 7 east into Bennington VT. From there, I would pick up route 9 through Brattleboro and that will take you to Keene, NH. Pick up 101 and that will eventually bring you out to Hampton, NH along the seacoast right below the ME border.
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