This website helps you discover the perfect Maine bike route

6 years ago

It’s a familiar conundrum for bicycling enthusiasts — the desire to explore new roads or trails on two wheels competing with the fear of encountering monster hills, heavy vehicular traffic or simply getting lost on unfamiliar routes.

Now, thanks to a new website launched last week by The Bicycle Coalition of Maine, much of that guess work is eliminated.

“Where to Ride” — www.bikemaine.org/wheretoride — lets riders use a series of drop down menus to select from among 150 bicycling routes from Kittery to Fort Kent based on distance, terrain and level of difficulty.

“One of the things we get asked the most about here at the [Bicycle Coalition of Maine] is ‘where is a good place to ride?’” said Frank Gallagher, coalition spokesman. “In fact, our web page that lists rides around the state gets the most traffic on our site.”

But that page, he said, simply lists locations of suggested rides, with minimal information about the routes.

The County is pleased to feature content from our sister company, Bangor Daily News. To read the rest of “This website helps you discover the perfect Maine bike route,” an article by contributing Bangor Daily News staff writer Julia Bayly, please follow this link to the BDN online.