BIKATION 2025 - OHIO

 

BIKATION 2025 - OHIO

- Guided Long One-way Loop Bike Tour Adventure

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A guided 900-mile month-long loop - Cleveland to Coolville and Ashtabula to Xenia; Lake Erie to Ohio River; Amish to urban communities; cities to rural countrysides - using 43 trails & roads at 37 average daily miles to electric overnight stays for both E and not-E bikes.


Join us for a unique, fun month-long bike tour experience! With smart-guided technology, you can ride ahead or behind the tour guide to proceed at your own pace and take in the sights and sounds of this Ohio tour. Our expertly designed route takes you on an in-depth journey at the speed of bike to popular landmarks and hidden gems along the way. The voice and map-guided instructions make it hard to get lost and easy to get back on course. Our tours are designed to be fun and engaging for every average cyclist. Bring your biking crew along and enjoy the ride together!


Group bikeway cycle tours do not get much better than this. Ohio cities, towns, communities, countrysides, lakes, rivers, parks, nicely designed bikeways, historical places, and memory-making spots are found all along the way - great for selfie pictures (it is, after all, a Bikation).


There are many great reasons to cycle tour Ohio. This adventure gets your wheels onto the growing cycling infrastructure of this award-winning state that leads the nation in dedicated bikeway miles. Except for the starting spot you will never see the same thing twice on this Long One-way Loop (LOL) Semi-selfie Tour. Easily add to the adventure by detouring to explore the numerous points of interest (see the list, below)


This Bikation starts where it ends, near Scioto Audubon Dog Park. Bring your furry friend on tour, if you wish. Pete the poodle is coming along! The overnight stays are partly chosen for their pet-friendly policy.


The 951-mile semi-smart-guided route is 36% bikeway and comes with CycleNuts' 50% downhill guarantee. Except for the rail-to-trail segments, the route follows the lay of the land, which in many areas is hilly. Your bike's gears will see use. Where bikeways are not available, roadways chosen by bike apps as bicycle-friendly will be used to connect the dots.


E-bikes are appropriate for this adventure. Daily 37-mile averages between overnight stays where batteries can be recharged fit in with ebike battery distance standards. As well, the relatively short daily mileage makes this long-distance adventure quite doable for the average not-e bike rider. However, if 37 miles daily is not doable for you, then this is not a good tour to attend on May 5th with the group.


Each attendee receives the smart-guided daily tour routes to ride at their preferred comfort level. You can pace with the tour guide or set your own pace. The advantage of this is nobody can be dropped and nobody has to worry about riding ahead or behind because everybody has the tour route and will end up at the same overnight stay (unless they choose to stay elsewhere).


The route may be shaded about 50% of the way. It may rain from time to time - be prepared. Snow is not expected. Sweating is optional. You can set your pace, starting time, and touring agenda on this semi-smart-guided tour or choose to pace with the tour guide. Semi-smart-guided means that each cyclist is provided with the smart-guided tour route (in both Google Maps and Ride With GPS formats) to follow along with the provided tour guide or to ride separately at their own pace, meeting up at the end of each day at the same overnight stay, or not. This also allows participants to take some time off to jump ahead or skip segments of the tour, and later join up with the tour group (or not if they wish).


A short list of cities, towns, and villages:

  • Kent
  • Niles
  • Perry
  • Elyria
  • Xenia
  • Akron
  • Dover
  • Burton
  • Bolivar
  • Clinton
  • London
  • Warren
  • Oberlin
  • Geneva
  • Navarre
  • Chardon
  • Coolville
  • Marietta
  • Caldwell
  • Ravenna
  • Lore City
  • Massillon
  • Mansfield
  • Mt Gilead
  • Lakewood
  • Ashtabula
  • The Plains
  • Cleveland
  • Columbus
  • Cedarville
  • Painesville
  • Greenwich
  • Chillicothe
  • Nelsonville
  • Jamestown
  • Austinburg
  • Lake Milton
  • Austintown
  • Cambridge
  • Middlefield
  • Sugarcreek
  • Senecaville
  • Canal Fulton
  • New London
  • Chagrin Falls
  • Fairview Park
  • North Olmsted
  • Shaker Heights
  • Newcomerstown
  • South Charleston
  • Washington Court House


Points of interest:

  • Lake Erie
  • Ohio River
  • Alum Creek
  • Rocky River
  • Grand River
  • Scioto River
  • Hocking Hills
  • Cuyahoga River
  • Ohio State Parks
  • Burton Wetlands
  • Ohio & Erie Canal
  • Muskingum River
  • Tuscarawas River
  • Ohio State Forests
  • Zaleski State Forest
  • Amish communities
  • Appalachian Plateau
  • Wayne National Forest
  • Tar Hollow State Forest
  • Hopewell Mound Group
  • Appalachian Mountains
  • Cuyahoga Valley National Park


Bikeways:

  1. River Trail
  2. AC&Y Trail
  3. Olentangy Trail
  4. Zoar Valley Trail
  5. Centennial Trail
  6. Niles Greenway
  7. Prairie Grass Trail
  8. Summit Lake Trail
  9. Camp Chase Trail
  10. Robert's Pass Trail
  11. Richland B&O Trail
  12. Moonville Rail Trail
  13. Lake-to-Lakes Trail
  14. Valley Parkway Trail
  15. Shaker Median Trail
  16. Harrison Dillard Trail
  17. Buckhorn Creek Trail
  18. Great Guernsey Trail
  19. Maple Highlands Trail
  20. Olde Muskingum Trail
  21. Scenic Park Loop Trail
  22. Mineral Lake Park Trail
  23. Ohio to Erie Trail - OTET
  24. Lower Scioto Greenway
  25. North Coast Inland Trail
  26. Tri-County Triangle Trail
  27. Centennial Lake Link Trail
  28. Garrett Wonders Bike Trail
  29. Highbanks Metro Park Trail
  30. Western Reserve Greenway
  31. Cleveland Lakefront Bikeway
  32. Hockhocking Adena Bikeway
  33. Paint Creek Recreational Trail
  34. The Portage Hike and Bike Trail
  35. Whiskey Island Connector Trail
  36. Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail
  37. Clinton-Fayette Friendship Trail
  38. Xenia-Jamestown Connector Trail
  39. Summit Metroparks Freedom Trail
  40. Lake Metroparks Greenway Corridor
  41. North Olmsted Walking and Bike Trail
  42. Maple Highlands Trail - North Section
  43. Congressman Ralph Regula Towpath Trail




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