This footbridge is beyond a dead-end, behind a small town gas station/McD's. Cross the stream, climb the path, over some RR tracks and you're at the 'beginning' of another dead-end gravel road. Love the 'secret access' experience into a wide open gravel adventure.
by mediumclay
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I would’ve smoked soo much weed here in my teen years
There’s an old section of road that goes from a quiet, flat string of neighborhoods into downtown, and it’s off the side of a side road right into a main avenue. It’s only about 500 feet long, but you drop a good 60 feet and can coast right into town from there. You get to swoop through quieter areas, drop down this shortcut under the cover of trees, and stop at the bottom for a creemie.
I wish I had stuff like this on my commute, it’s just sidewalks and the tiny spaces donated from the carbrains.
My commute home when I live on the Eastside of Athens, Ga had the best singletrack shortcut down by the river avoiding majority of the traffic I had to put up with when I worked for the post office there. Made the long days worth it to sit by the river afterwards and drink a tallboy.
I ride bikes with my son to his school, about 1.5 miles each way. We live just off a busy 4+ lane road and we have to cross one other busy road. So we’ve been trying different routes to try to avoid the busy streets. We recently found a route that takes us about four blocks through mostly back roads and then we can come to a driveway that ends in an entrance into the local park. And then another sorta secret gate on the other side. Cross the busy street from there and it’s just a couple more blocks on mostly back roads and we’re there!
A pipeline (apparently from Texas) cuts through a bunch of neighborhoods in my Pennsylvania county. And during Covid I abused the fact that it technically isn’t anyone’s property that lives next to it.
So I can save dozens of miles, just cutting through and riding on the grass. And I have successfully made it a common walking path. It isn’t even a desire path anymore it is basically a dirt sidewalk
I can take it half way to the Delaware river