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REPORT ON
BERKSHIRE AND CONNECTICUT VALLEY
BICYCLE ROUTE SURVEY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
OVERALL PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- Meeting the Needs of the Bicycle Touring Ridership
- An Information-Based Strategy
- Additional Publicity and Promotion Efforts
- DATA COLLECTION AND PRESENTATION
- The core route concept
- Data collection methods
- Accuracy of data
- Data formats and data conversion
- Main Touring Route, Connecticut to Lenox
- Recommendations
- South Berkshire Side Trips
- Side Trip 1: Umpachene Falls, Mill River
- Recommendations
- Side Trip 2: Mount Washington, Bash Bish Falls
- Recommendations
- Side Trip 3: Great Barrington
- Recommendations
- Side Trip 4: Monument Valley
- Recommendations
- Side Trip 5: Stockbridge Sights
- Recommendations
- Side Trip 6: Gingerbread House
- Recommendations
- Side Trip 7: Housatonic River, October Mountain
- Recommendations
- Main Touring Route, Lenox to Vermont Border
- Recommendations
- North Berkshire Side Trips
- Side Trip 8: Taconic State Park
- Recommendations
- Side Trip 9: Mount Greylock
- Recommendations
- Side Trip 10: Williamstown
- Recommendations
- Side Trip 11: Natural Bridge Circuit
- Recommendations
Berkshire Routes not Described in Detaill
- Adams - Savoy - Charlemont - Clarksburg
- Pittsfield - North Adams
- Pittsfield - Washington
- Central Pittsfield Connectors
- Tyringham - New Marlborough
- Other
- General Prospects and Problems
- Connecticut Border to Westfield
- Recommendations
- Westfield to Northampton
- Recommendations
- The Mount Tom Link
- Recommendations
- Northampton - Greenfield - Sunderland Loop
- Recommendations
- Northampton - Northfield via Amherst, Wendell and Warwick
- Recommendations
- Round the Range and North
- Recommendations
- Other Connecticut Valley Routes
BERKSHIRE VALLEY-CONNECTICUT VALLEY LINKS
- Route 9 - Windsor Jambs - Route 116
- Recommendations
- Route 20 Corridor
- Recommendations
- Other Alternatives
- Books and pamphlets
- Maps
APPENDED ITEMS [Some not yet available in Web version]
- Maps [The maps with the 1995 bicycle facilities inventory show most of the same routes]
- Bicycle route spreadsheets
- Article about the economics of bicycle touring in Vermont
- Letter about South Hadley Canal Park expansion
- Description of century route [This is the Great River Route century ride which is run from Westfield every September. More information is available from Don Podolski at New Horizons Sports, Westfield].
- Franklin County bicycle route plan [Described in the 1995 bicycle facilities inventory. Contact Franklin County Planning Commission for updates].
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Prepared by John
S. Allen, 1993 |
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