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This is a cue sheet for the Arrigoni-East Haddam Bridge River Route Bicycle Map. You can print it out for later use.

Cumulative Distance Where Notes Direction Elevation
0km 0km This ride starts at the corner of Indian Hill and Sima Road. E 72° 180m
0.41km 0.41km Take a Left onto Little City Road. NNW 344° 181m
1.16km 0.74km there's been alot of residential building in the town I grew up in for the past 5 years. I'm not happy about it. The privatization of the commons is happening, and you can see it on the left as you turn onto Little City Road here. NNE 169m
2.81km 1.65km ride past the stop sign. Little City Road turns into Foot Hills Road. This intersection is very beautiful, with a mill pond to your left, a farm house across the street, and a barn to your right. There were cows in the field to your right until about 10 years ago. NNW 337° 77m
5.03km 2.22km This is a good spot to take a swim. Miller's Pond is a local favorite. NNW 330° 192m
6.11km 1.08km steep. NNW 355° 157m
7.26km 1.15km Middletown NNE 13° 86m
9.83km 2.57km this area once had farms and farm houses, but is now populated with McMansions. NNW 358° 38m
11.43km 1.59km Ride through the stop light. Here you'll start to enter denser development; it'll feel more urban. NNW 355° 29m
13.11km 1.68km Stop & Shop for groceries. Take a Left onto Main Street. NNW 321° 23m
15.02km 1.91km Downtown Middletown. An excellent place to get some food before continuing on the journey. NNW 338° 19m
15.64km 0.62km At this point, you'll get on the pedestrian/ bike walkway to cross the bridge. ENE 58° 14m
16.02km 0.38km The Arrigoni Bridge has the longest bridge span in CT. It's also one of the only (if not the only) suspension bridge in CT of any kind. E 77° 7m
16.54km 0.52km Portland NE 45° 9m
17.05km 0.51km Follow Route 66: Take a right onto Marlborogh Street. SE 118° 27m
17.87km 0.83km this is the main street through Portland. Feel free to take a different street. SE 113° 26m
22.69km 4.82km right around here you should get some good views of the "narrows" as this area of the CT river is called. You should also be able to see a power plant, which is reputed to be among the most polluting in CT. E 89° 30m
25.09km 2.4km East Hampton Take a right onto Rt. 151. S 158° 58m
29.1km 4.01km Feel free to take a walk throught Hurd State Park. Go down to the river bank and see where ships were once built and launched. SE 128° 110m
30.3km 1.2km take a right, if your wish, at this point to ride into Haddam Neck, a small, rural satisfying blip on the CT river. ESE 103° 140m
33.98km 3.68km steep. S 159° 42m
34.32km 0.34km haddam Haddam is the only town in CT split by a major river. SSE 150° 15m
35.8km 1.48km east haddam SE 127° 52m
36.68km 0.88km Take a right onto Johnsonville Road. SSW 189° 29m
37.21km 0.53km historic johnsonville. home to many olde tyme resorts S 168° 14m
37.66km 0.45km Right onto Rt. 149. SSW 183° 37m
41.9km 4.24km Take a right from 149 onto Rt. 82. This is East Haddam Center. Note the Goodspeed Opera House and the East Haddam Bridge, a pivoting drawbridge. SW 208° 14m
42.74km 0.84km you can either go up the small road to the right or continue on 82 up to Tylerville where you can get some food. or you can wait until the Pilot House on 154. NNW 316° 30m
45.03km 2.28km Haddam The Pilot House. Get a soda. NNW 317° 44m
48.63km 3.6km At this point you can continue riding north west along 154 or ride through the woods back to the start. To ride through the woods, take a left onto Walkley Hill Road, and a quick left onto Hayden Hill Road. SW 211° 32m
49.09km 0.45km steep. Take a soft right onto Timms Hill Road. W 252° 62m
50.04km 0.95km Entering Cockaponset State Forest. This may be a dirt road. SW 205° 81m
50.61km 0.57km At least there are some parts of Haddam that McMansions can't be slapped up on. S 170° 83m
51.25km 0.64km Right onto Hubbard Road. WNW 276° 58m
52.19km 0.94km Rt 9 Underpass. W 265° 93m
52.93km 0.74km Right onto Morris Road. NNW 331° 117m
53.08km 0.15km Left on Ponsett Road. W 252° 117m
53.95km 0.87km cross Rt. 81 onto Little City Road. W 257° 113m
57.99km 4.05km WNW 275° 181m