The way points of this bicycle route:
Start at Dumfries-Triangle Rescue Squad Station 17. Parking available on Spring Branch Blvd.
Convenience store at this intersection. Cardinal Drive is a busy 4-lane 40 MPH speed limit. Can be ridden, but I prefer the sidewalk on the south-west side of the street.
Stoplight. You can proceed down to Minnieville, but I like to ride these low-traffic residential streets.
I ride the sidewalk along Minnieville. This is a busy, high-volume, high-speed street.
Two major grocery stores, hardware store.
Multi-use path on the north-east side of the Prince William Parkway (VA 3000). Trail runs all the way up to Caton Hill Road. Use caution at the street crossings.
Hoadly Road is a high-speed four-lane with relatively wide shoulders. Shoulders are swept once a year, so they usually have a lot of gravel and debris. There are a few small shopping centers between here and Dale Blvd.
Spriggs Road has a multi-use trail from Hoadly all the way down to Rt. 234. Conditions on Hoadly continue as before with a relatively wide shoulder with a fair amount of gravel and debris. High speed traffic.
Multi-use trail runs along this section of Dumfries Road, Rt. 234. There is a convenience store, gas station, grocery store, Subway, ice cream shop, hardware store in the shopping center at this intersection.
Multi-use paved trail runs all the way up Spriggs back to Hoadly Road.
Multi-use paved trail runs out somewhere right in here, but Rt. 234 has a nice wide shoulder here.
I cut through the little shopping center here because I don't like the intersection at Country Club Drive (a couple hundred feet further down the road).
This is Dauphin Beach, a gated private beach for the residents of Montclair but the staff will let you ride through the small parking lot and pick up the trail that rides up past a basketball court to the dam. This is a very pleasant and scenic (but very short) stretch. The trail is paved all the way to Golf Club Drive.
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A modified version of the Hoadly route
Tagged with: Recreational, Onroad, Intermediate, Offroad, High traffic
