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The way points of this bicycle route:

Dover Plains

. start at Metro North railroad station, which has train service + parking in weekends - (food options to west along rt 22) -- start Left onto Mill St going east

. Left - Poplar Hill Rd / Dutchess county rt 4

. Right - Sinpatch Rd / Dutchess county rt 4

. becomes Kent Rt / Dutchess county rt 3 - (continue Straight to its end)

Wassaic

. Right - South Amenia Rd / Dutchess county rt 2

Amenia Union

. (next to the state of Connecticut)

. Left - Leedsville Rd / Dutchess county rt 2 (to its end)

. Left - rt 343 West

Amenia

. Right - Sharon Station Rd (to its end) . . . (for food, instead continue west on rt 343 into Amenia)

. Right - Sharon Station Rd / Dutchess county rt 1

. Straight onto Sheffield Hill Rd (eroded surface as of 2009) . . . (Sharon Station Rd goes R toward Sharon CT)

. (cross Harlem Vallem Rail Trail - www.hvrt.org)

. becomes Coleman Station Rd / Dutchess county rt 58 - (continue to its end)

. Right - rt 22 North . . . [high-speed high-traffic road, with reasonable width of traffic lane + shoulder as of 2009]

. Left - Smithfield Rd / Dutchess county rt 5

. Right - Silver Mountain Rd (long moderate climb) . . . [Variation: shorter but steeper, instead continue straight on Smithfield Rd.]

. bear Left (joins McGhee Hill Rd)

. Left - Charlie Hill Rd

. Right - Smithfield Rd / Dutchess county rt 5 (long downhill)

. Right - Smithfield Valley Rd / Dutchess county rt 83

. Left - Separate Rd

. Right - Bangall Amenia Rd (a.k.a. James Cagney Way)

. [Variation: to try some dirt roads, instead turn Left onto Leavitt Rd, becomes Fraleigh Hill Rd (to its end), Right - Shunpike / rt 57 -- not checked by us since 2007.]

Bangall

. Left - Shumann Rd . . (later becomes Ludlow Rd)

. Right - Shunpike / Dutchess county rt 57

. Left - Stanford Rd

Washington

. cross Sharon Turnpike, continue Straight on Stanford Rd (to its end)

. Left - Franklin Av

Millbrook

. food options along Church St + Franklin Av

. Right on Church St

. Left - rt 343 East

. Right - Altamont Rd / Dutchess county rt 96 (to its end)

. (bear Right, pass by Overlook Rd)

. Left - Oak Summit Rd (to its end)

Verbank

. Left - Camby Rd / Dutchess county rt 90

. Left - Chestnut Ridge Rd / Dutchess county rt 24

Union Vale

. Left - Chestnut Ridge Rd / Dutchess county rt 24

. Right - Halls Corners Rd (to its end)

. Right - rt 343 East [can be high speed traffic, reasonable width of traffic lane + shoulder as of 2009]

. bear Right, follow sign for rt 22 South

. Right - rt 22 South . . . [high-speed high-traffic road, reasonable width of traffic land + shoulder as of 2009]

. . . food options along rt 22

. Left - Mill St

Dover Plains

. . Metro North train station, has weekend parking + train service.

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