The way points of this bicycle route:
starting south on Spring Garden St
Left - Bonnybrook Rd, to its end
Left + quick Right across rt 174 onto Lerew Rd, to its end
Left - Park Dr
(becomes Walnut St)
Right - 1st St / rt 174
first Right - Front St - (nice view of Yellow Breeches creek)
Left, then Right onto Race St
Right - Kuhn Rd
Left - Creek Rd
Left - York Rd / rt 74
first Right - Park Place or Helsey Rd
Right - Park Place
Left - Speedway Dr, to its end
Left - Lisburn Rd
quick Right - Brindle Rd
Right - Eppley Rd
Left - Eppley Rd, to its end
Right - Sinclair Rd, to its end
Right - Elmwood Av
Right - Frederick St
Left - Mumma Av, to its end
Left - Market St
Right - Elmwood Av
Left - Alison Av, to its end
Left - Cocklin Av, to its end
Left - Apple Dr, to its end
Left - Oxford Dr, to its end
Right - Winston Dr, to its end
Left - Royal Dr, to its end
Right - Welsey St, to traffic light
Left + quick Left - Bethany Dr, to its end
Left - Rupp Av
Right - Green St, to its end
Left - St Johns Church Rd
Right - Trindle Rd / rt 641
Right - enter Camp Hill Shopping Center
go clockwise a quarter of the way around shopping mall thru driveway + parking lot
exit shopping center at traffic light onto Harvard Av going east, to its end
Left - 22nd St
Right - Yale Av
first Right - 21st St, to its end
Left - Princeton Av, to its end
Right - 19th St
curve Left, becomes State St, to its end
Right - Market St, later goes down hill, curves Left then Right
bridge over Susquehenna River - (view south to other bridges)
exit Right to visit City Island and ride around its north half
Left to go underneath bridge and toward northern half of island
Left + climb up, then sharp Right + down a little, then sharp Left
sharp Left to avoid One-Way Do No Enter, and ride loop clockwise around north half of City Island
(to the left is a pedestrian bridge to Harrisburg, which some bicyclists like to ride across, but its surface is open metal grating -- so we continue southeast on the island to the Market St bridge.
go underneath bridge, then Right onto entrance ramp to bridge
sharp Right onto Market St - bridge across Susquehenna River to Harrisburg
Left - 2nd St
Right - State St - (view of Pennsylvania state capital building)
Right - 3rd St
(shopping area - Strawberry Square)
Left - Market St
(train station to right, nice renovated interior)
Left - 5th St, to its end
Left - Walnut St
first Right - Commonwealth Av
(another interesting view of Pennsylvania state capital building)
second Right (just after park) - North Dr, to its end
Right - 7th St - (view of two large pedestals with statues)
first Right - South St, to its end
Right - Commonwealth Av (again)
Left - Forster St
cross Harvey Taylor Bridge - (great views to north to islands in the Susquehenna River) - (seems like leaving the city, but it's the best water view in the state, so it's worth just riding a ways out onto the bridge and back)
Turn around and go back east to the city
Left - paved path along the shore of the Susquehenna River
Welcome to Bikely, take a step by step tour of this path:
Press Start Tour - then use the navigation buttons below to move along the path.
south to pretty farmland + creekside riding then east thru Mechanicsburg + Camp Hill to the wide Susquehenna River and the capital city of Harrisburg (both with worthwhile sights). Labels on points make a detailed cue sheet (click Show, select Cue Sheet). Lots of turns, that's why we have GPS nowadays. Positions of points were tweaked for GPS navigation, and most were tested in actual riding. For info + connections to other routes see www.roberts-1.com/b/x/gvd, routeID [gvd1e]. Can make a loop with this route by combining it with route "Harrisburg to Carlisle northerly" -- search [gvd1w] on Bikely. Not checked by us since 2009.
Tagged with: Recreational, Onroad, Scenic, Touring
