Lykens Valley Rail Trail - Pennsylvania DCNR
Lykens Valley Rail Trail - TrailLink
According to the Lykens Valley Facebook Page the organization spearheading this became defunct in 2016, which is kind of the feeling I got while riding the trail. That would explain why the URL on the sign no longer works.
DIRECTIONS:
GPS Coordinates 40.58581, -76.61331
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| State Game Lands 264 Parking |
TRAIL MAP:
BIKE DISTANCE: 7.5 miles (3.75 miles each way)
THE BIKE:
Having finished hiking an Appalachian Trail section I did not want to get stuck in Sunday evening stop and go traffic on I-78 through Allentown so I decided to kill some time on a short rail trail on the way home. I found this one on TrailLink so that is where I went.
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| Right off the bat I was concerned that this might be more of a gravel State Game Lands road than a rail trail. |
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| Especially early on when I encountered very rough, rutted, loose gravel washed out surface that would have been a wipe out for sure had I not walked it. |
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| I almost turned back but decided to give it a little more time and the trail did become crushed stone and resembled a bona fide rail trail. The trail looks fairly level but actually went uphill for about half the way then the rest was coasting downhill. |
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| Only one blow down to carry the bike over. |
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| The trail ends in Wiconisco where apparently you have to navigate on road to continue so I decided to turn back at this point. |
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| Looks like there wasn't all that much more after the road parts anyway. |
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| Heading back. |
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| Walking the bike back over the washed out area. |
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