Paint Creek Trail Cycle Tour - Chillicothe to Washington Court House, Ohio

Paint Creek Trail Cycle Tour

- Chillicothe to Washington Court House, Ohio

This tour has a lot going for it with several options. Firstly, if you are looking to get in a metric century ride then move this one to the top of your short list. Here's why - the majority of the route is a rail-to-trail and rural. Quite a bit of it runs alongside scenic Paint Creek. Speaking of Paint Creek - this tour is the whole Paint Creek Trail from end to end. It was formerly known as the Adena Recreational Trail and the Tri-County Triangle Trail. New name - same great trail!

MAKE IT A METRIC CENTURY - OR LESS - ON THIS GORGEOUS TRAIL

Rider's choice! 70, 38, or 32 miles on this beautiful countryside rail-to-trail bikeway.

1 starting spot - 3 tour lengths - 2 CycleNuts tested and approved tasty stops!

All three tour routes are included with your ticket. This is a CycleNuts Triple LoST which is an acronym for Long or Short Tour - a CycleNuts Tour Group favorite. Because it has three lengths, we call it a Triple LoST.

How LoST Tours work. The 70 mile and 32 mile route goes to and from a CycleNuts tested and approved tasty turnaround spot - Prime Meats & Deli - back to the starting spot. Then, the 32 mile route is done. This segment of the tour is 83% bikeway, mostly level, and in the sun about half of the way. At this point the 70 mile route continues on and the 38 mile route begins. Both of these segments also go to and from a CycleNuts tested and approved tasty turnaround spot - Old Canal Smokehouse - back to the starting spot. This segment of the tour is 92% bikeway, has some opportunities to use your bike's climbing gears, and is in the shade most of the way.

The Paint Creek Recreation Trail is the flagship pathway of a planned trail network in the Ohio counties of Fayette, Ross and Highland. Nearly 35 miles of paved trail are currently open linking the communities of Washington Court House, Frankfort and Chillicothe. The vast majority of the trail occupies a former railroad corridor acquired by the local nonprofit trails group in 1994. However, the trail does leave the original corridor where the right-of-way could not be acquired from its current owners. These diversions are generally brief, with the longest a 2.5-mile on-road segment on the eastern edge of Washington Court House. ~ TrailLink

Along the 38 and 70 mile routes the bikeway passes through the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. Nearly 2000 years ago, American Indians built dozens of monumental mounds and earthen enclosures in southern Ohio. These earthwork complexes were ceremonial landscapes used for feasts, funerals, rituals, and rites of passage associated with an American Indian religious movement that swept over half the continent for almost 400 years. Come walk among the earthworks and experience the past. ~ National Park Service

Points of Interest:

• Paint Creek
• the city of Chillicothe
• Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
• the towns of Washington Courthouse, and Frankfort

Trails:

• Paint Creek Trail

HERE'S THE PLAN: You bring the bike and smart phone. CycleNuts provides the smart-tour guide! Via email you receive an expertly designed and tested tour route. Simply click on the emailed link and follow the expertly designed Selfie Tour route using your smart phone as your personal smart-tour guide for the Voice and Map guided turn-by-turn instructions.

1. From your location simply click on link 1 provided by CycleNuts (using your cell phone) and follow the Google Maps directions to the starting spot;
2. Unload your bike (if you transported it to the starting spot), or if you rode your bike to the starting spot then you are good to go;
3. and then click on link 2 provided by CycleNuts and begin the tour (for more complex tours there may also be a link 3 or 4 to click on along the way as well as additional instructions).

WHERE TO RENT A BIKE: There are not any bicycle rental options nearby.

ARE YOU READY TO ROLL? GREAT... LET'S HIT THE TRAILS!

GET YOUR TICKET TODAY! - take note that the tour starting and ending times on the ticket are only a general guideline to give you an idea of how much time the tour may take at the minimum. Your time in the saddle, on the trail, and starting times are your call - it is your tour. One ticket equals fun for all! Bring as many people as you wish on your tour. Ticket purchase is for the CycleNuts Selfie Smart-guided route only. Attractions, lodgings, food, bike rental, taxes, etcetera are not included in the ticket purchase.

CycleNuts Selfie Cycle Tours

CycleNuts Selfie Tours tie together fun, interesting, scenic, historic, tasty, and refreshing points of interest along a bikeway focused tour route where you ride at your pace and your pleasure. You are the tour boss. You pick the date and time - the ticket is good for any day or time - dates/times listed only as a guideline to give you an idea of how long tour normally takes.

With these smart-guided bikeway cycling adventures you bring the bike and smart phone, and CycleNuts provides the Smart Guide. The Smart Guide gives you voice and visual turn-by-turn instructions along an expertly designed and tested tour route.

Do the tour solo or bring along your crew. 1 ticket = fun for all! Easily stop anywhere along the way to visit attractions or refreshments and the Smart Guide will continue the route from wherever you are when you are ready to roll.

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