Erik Cheever's Bike Ride Cue Sheets
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These routes are just suggestions and may not be completely accurate, and some of the roads have significant traffic.  You should take along a good local road map, in case there are errors, detours, or you are not comfortable with the level of traffic.

Rides with cue sheets (and maps)

Rides around Media, PA

Media to Swarthmore - Direct route
This is a 4.5 mile ride from Media to Swarthmore that avoids main roads.  It is the one I use to commute to work.

Media to Swarthmore - Indirect route
This is a 10 mile ride from Media to Swarthmore, not the most direct route.  Most of the roads are nice for biking and there is a three mile flat stretch along Chester Creek.

Media to Chadd's Ford (at the Wawa at Rte 100 and Rte 1)  (22 miles)
There are several ways to do this route; This page has a 22 mile route that goes through Delaware.  I plan on adding some variations to this route.  

Chadd's Ford to Media  (18 miles)
This connects to the previous route to form a 40 mile loop.  This is a very pleasant ride.

Media to Glenn Mills to Concord loop (20 miles)
A 20 mile loop, relatively hilly.

Media to West Chester  (16 miles)
From Media (Delaware County seat) to West Chester (Chester County seat).

West Chester to Lancaster (41 miles)

Media to Conshohocken  (17 miles)
This route goes up to Conshohocken.  I have family in Montgomery and Bucks Counties, and take this route to Conshohocken.  Other routes (below) connect at Conshohocken -- including one into the city along the Schuylkill valley trail.

Conshohocken to Doylestown  (24 miles)
The title says it all.  Mostly a flat route except for first hill on Joshua road to get out of Schuylkill valley.

Conshohocken to Hatboro  (15 miles)

Conshohocken to Valley Forge (9 miles)

Conshohocken to Philly Art Museum (15 miles)

Philadelphia (Art Museum) to Media (15 Miles)

Valley Forge to Media (20 miles)

Lancaster to Baltimore (67 Miles)

Baltimore to Chestertown (On the Eastern Shore of Maryland)  (69 Miles)

Chestertown (On the Eastern Shore of Maryland) to Media  (73 Miles)

Media to New Tripoli (west of Allentown - 66 Miles)

New Tripoli to West Chester (76 Miles)

Philadelphia, PA to Washington, DC
This is a trip I took one summer from my home in Media, PA (just outside Philadelphia) to my parents home in Bethesda, MD (just outside Washington, DC).  I did it in three days with stops in Lancaster, PA and Union Bridge, MD where my sisters live.  Lancaster was right on the way, but going to Union Bridge added some total length to the trip.  I really wanted to stay off of busy roads, so there are lots of turns.

Media, PA  to Lancaster, PA  in 3 parts (with topographic profiles)

  1. Media to West Chester

  2. West Chester to the Lancaster County Line

  3. Lancaster County Line to Lancaster

  4. A more direct route from West Chester To Lancaster  (41 Miles)

Lancaster, PA to Union Bridge, MD  in 3 parts (with topographic profiles)

  1. Lancaster to Wrightsville, Across the Susquehanna

  2. Wrightsville to the Maryland State Line

  3. Maryland State Line to Union Bridge, MD

Union Bridge to Kensington, MD in 2 parts (with topographic profiles)

  1. Union Bridge to Mount Airy

  2. Mount Airy to Kensington

Washington to Philadelphia (Not my own cue sheet)

How I made my maps and cue sheets

I made all my maps with Topo USA (East) software from DeLorme.  It costs about $50 dollars and lets you make maps with topographics profiles (and cue sheets, though I find these need some editing).

Useful Printed References for Biking around Philadelphia

Useful Resources

       Biking clubs

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       Individual Cue Sheets

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       State and local bike resources

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       General Touring Resources

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Getting your bike painted

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