After this weekend's ride, it struck me that we need a list of road climbs in the state. It would be cool to try and do something similar for off-road riding. But I think the road is a lot more tangible since you can map out a lot of the climbs to get some sort of baseline.
So here are some climbs that I would throw in the list of tough NJ climbs. I hope to be able to maintain this list over time as I ride more of them.
This is in no particular order
Fiddlers Elbow
Iron Bridge Rd
Bloomsbury Mountain
Ludlow Station (the sister of Iron Bridge)
Skyline Dr-Ringwood
Federal Twist Rd-Byram
Skyline
Brookvalley Road
Shire Road
Lommason Glen Rd/Buckhorn Dr./Castners Rd.
Breakneck
Millbrook
Barrett
Pickle
Steele Gap
Mine Rd?
Mt Pleasant (Columbia)
There are more up north I'm not familiar with. But I'd be interested in checking some of them out.
The Standings
- Adamic Hill (347 over .53 miles, 12.4%, 5.3 mph, 6:00)
- Warrenville (352 over .58 miles, 11.5%, 6.4 mph, 5:16)
- N Four Bridges (337 over .56 miles, 11.4%, 6.7 mph, 5:04)
- Zellers (477 over .9 miles, 10%, 7.2 mph, 7:29)
- Washington Ave (410 over .82 miles, 9.5%, 8.2 mph, 5:58)
- Pinchers Point (452 over .92 miles, 9.3%, 6.4 mph, 8:35)
- Beacon Hill (272 over .59 miles, 8.7%, 8.8 mph, 3:59)
- Vosseler (245 over .54, 8.6%, 8 mph, 4:04)
- Black River Rd (404 over .91 miles, 8.4%, 8.8 mph, 6:13)
- Schooley's Mountain (517 over 1.4 miles, 7%, 9.5 mph, 8:48)
- Pembrook 2nd half (281 over .77 miles, 6.9%, 8.6 mph, 5:22)
- Schoolhouse (453 over 1.31 miles, 6.6%, 10.3 mph, 7:38)
- 512 Califon (339 over 1.02 miles, 6.3%, 9.7 mph, 6:20)
- Drakestown (399 over 1.26, 6.0%, 10.6 mph, 7:09)
- Morning Glory (284 over .94 miles, 5.7%, 10.7 mph, 5:16)
- Pembrook full climb (380 over 1.23 miles, 5.6%, 9.4 mph, 7:49)
- East Fox Chase (318 over 1.12 miles, 5.3%, 10.1 mph, 6:39)
- Bissel (534 over 1.92, 5.3%, 10.6 mph, 10:51)
- Claermont (313 over 1.19 miles, 5%, 10.1 mph, 7:01)
- Campbell-Peachcroft Rd (501 over 2.04 miles, 4.7%, 11.2 mph, 10:55)
- Mount Harmony (393 over 1.83 miles, 4.1% 11.5 mph, 9:35)