Bicycle Travel and
Independent Touring

Web Sites

• Adventure Cycling Association
  Founded in 1973 as Bikecentennial, Adventure Cycling Association is America's premier not-for-profit organization dedicated to bicycle travel, with nearly 40,000 members nationwide. Their mission is simply to inspire people of all ages to travel by bicycle, and explore the landscapes and history of America for fitness, fun and self-discovery. Adventure Cycling is America's bicycle travel inspiration and resource, offering many programs for cyclists, including a national network of bicycle touring routes and organized trips. They publish Adventure Cyclist magazine and offer maps of many bike routes.
• American Bike Trails
  This website offers books, maps and guides for biking and bike trails by state, including Pennsylvania and Ohio.
• BikeMap.com
  Where can I take my bike on a bus, train or plane? Transit systems that allow you to carry your bike.
• Canada: Atlantic-Canada Cycling
  Information on biking in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Newfoundland. Beautiful scenery in their photo albums makes you want to sign up for a tour right away.
  • Canada: "Pedaling in Canada"
    A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article from Sunday, September 08, 2002. "Bike trip in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island leaves travelers happily tired". Includes links to further information about biking in Nova Scotia.
• National Bicycle Tour Directors Association
  A list of multi-day rides presented by members of the National Bicycle Tour Directors Association, a group bicycle ride coordinators and directors of tours that are three days or more, dedicated to promoting safe and effective cycling.
• New York Times Activity Guides: Biking
  This travel section offers articles on biking destinations in the U.S. and abroad.

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Pittsburgh Region

• Allegheny Trail Alliance: Pittsburgh to Cumberland Trail
  This website gives a good overview of the Rail-to-Trail initiative from Pittsburgh to Cumberland, Maryland (and eventually Washington DC) with links to participating trail organizations. Included are amenities along the route.
• Freewheeling Easy in Western Pennsylvania
  Selected information from a printed guidebook to easy traffic-free bicycling and walking trails in Pennsylvania west of US 219. Also contains a good collection of links. By Mary Shaw and Roy Weil.
• GORP: Weekend Wheeling in Pittsburgh: Hills for the Best
  An article from 2000 by Joe Papp about several possible rides within the city of Pittsburgh, including the hilly "dirty dozen".

• Neon Web: Bicycle Trail Guide to Western Pennsylvania
  An award-winning personal website with information on bike trails in Western Pennsylvania by Debora B. Thompson. Included is a searchable gallery of photos of wildflowers along the trail!

Pennsylvania

• The Alleghenies: Cycling
  The Alleghenies™ of Pennsylvania has a long history of welcoming cyclists.
• Cycle Southern Alleghenies
  The Southern Alleghenies Region offers self-guided tour routes that are ideal for an afternoon ride, weekend getaway, or multi-day cycling vacation. Find over 20 on-road and over 25 off road routes as well as trail maps, cue sheets, lodging and attraction information. Some of the best rides you'll ever have await you.
• Pedal Pennsylvania
  A Philadelphia-based bicycle touring company offering week-long, fully-supported, cross-Pennsylvania tours.

Nearby States

• Bike Washington: The C&O Canal Biking Guide
  Detailed mile by mile information on the 184 mile towpath between Georgetown and Cumberland, MD. Eventually to connect up with the Pittsburgh to Cumberland trail.