The way points of this bicycle route:
continue northeast on Highland Av (cross Germantown Av)
Right : Anderson St
Left : Gravers Lane
straight across Stenton Av, continue on Gravers Lane
Right : Ardmore Ave
Left : Willow Grove Av
Left : Church Rd / route 73 (down steep hill)
half-Right : Oreland Mill Rd
Left : Walnut Av (to its end)
Left : Camp Hill Rd
sharp Right (under railroad) : Bethlehem Pike
tricky visibility around a curve to the right, but to us the road seems wide enough for us to manage it. (It could be avoided by instead taking other nearby roads)
food options on both side of the road
Left : Ambler Rd
half Left : Bannockburn Av
Right : Main St
food options and train station on Butler Av to left
bear Right : Reiffs Mill Rd
Left : Spring Garden St
Left : Penn Ambler Rd
Left : Wister Av
Left : Pennlyn Pike
Right : Lantern Lane (to its end)
Right : Plymouth Rd (to its end)
to avoid riding on high-traffic rt 202, could try turn Left on School House Lane, straight across rt 202, continue on School House Lane to its end, Right on Swedesford Rd, Left on Sumneytown Pike (not checked by us since 2007).
Right : route 202 North / Dekalb Pike (high-traffic high-speed road, with shoulders not wide or not good here, but we found it managable on weekend afternoon. It could be avoided by using other roads nearby.
Left : Sumneytown Pike
Right : Montgomery Av - (food options in 2009, including at the start of Montgomery Av)
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.
Philadelphia - Chestnut Hill to Ambler to North Wales. For more info + connections to other routes, see www.roberts-1.com/b/x/pb. This route is one stage of a loop connecting Philadelphia + Bethlehem -- search Bikely on [BPhB]. Labels on points form a detailed cue sheet (click on Show, select Cue Sheet). Points have not been tweaked or tested for GPS navigation. This stage has routeID [BPhB6]. It connects from Phila to Bethlehem sec 1 [BPhB5], and connects to Phila to Bethlehem sec 3 [BPhB7]. Not checked by us since 2009.
Tagged with: Recreational, Onroad, Touring
