Dirt roads for foul weather?

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al415

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At the moment I don’t have any road bikes built up, so if it rains I pretty much don’t ride. I’ve considered taking my SS to Hartshorne on wet days just to noodle up and down the fire-road, but I suspect it’s so short it would get old quick. I don’t know anything about the local rails to trails system (assuming that the system is unpaved)

Does anyone have a suggestion for dirt / fire-road rides for days when the woods are too soupy to ride?
 
al415 said:
At the moment I don’t have any road bikes built up, so if it rains I pretty much don’t ride. I’ve considered taking my SS to Hartshorne on wet days just to noodle up and down the fire-road, but I suspect it’s so short it would get old quick. I don’t know anything about the local rails to trails system (assuming that the system is unpaved)

Does anyone have a suggestion for dirt / fire-road rides for days when the woods are too soupy to ride?
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Sussex branch at Kittatinny Valley...

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/kittval.html
 
I'm guessing that your monmouth co. near hartshorne... Henry Hudson trail is an option. I've never been on it but believe its all paved and your within easy access of it. Nothing too exciting(flat) but does provide a safe place to ride. There is a HH trail south as well, here is the one closer to you.
http://199.233.80.44/documents/130/HHT_north_jan09.pdf
 
Up north here, you can do a loop using woods roads around splitrock.
Splitrock Rd to Charlotteburg Rd, Timberbrook Rd, Hibernia Rd, and back.
As long as you stay on the dirt roads you are not tresspassing on Watershed. These roads have some real big, deep puddles though.
 
Thanks guys. I could have sworn I wrote Monmouth County, but I think I erased my first draft 🙄 Anyway, it'll be Hudson Trail for me initially I think. I get up north a few times a month, so if one of those trips coincides with foul weather I'll check out some of those other options!
 
riding up and down the Hartshorne fire road would get boring quick. I'd fit it into a longer ride. there are some good dirt roads in the vicinity of Hartshorne. The road segments highlighted in red are dirt roads. some pretty good hills. the hill on Cooper in particular is quite a leg burner on a SS. despite the rain, Id cut through Huber to get to Bowne (dont take Nav. River Road in the rain - cars going 45 in the rain not looking for bikes in the rain = recipe for disaster). that portion of Huber is all sand anyway - reduced potential for trail damage.

you could probably come up with a good ride with the combination of the Hartshorne fire road and the dirt roads in the area. oh the red "X" sis the approx. location of the lower parking lot at Hartshorne.

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