My riding season was rapidly drawing to a close as I was due to have
knee surgery (to repair the severed PCL from my July 2001 Ganaraska accident)
on July 4. I'd heard Pennsylvania had nice hilly and twisty roads
that were great for bikes so I decided this would be a good destination
for my last rides.
We headed for Allegheny State Forest and found a campsite near Mount
Jewitt, PA that seemed to be well located for both the forest access roads
and the regular paved ones. The roads were nice here - especially
SR 666 - but the forest roads were mainly just straight gravel roads in
dense forest, with no views. Stayed a few days and then moved on towards
Corning, NY and the Finger Lakes. Just before reaching Tioga, PA,
we saw a really nice campground on a lake and pulled in to check it out.
The nice thing about traveling mid-week is you get the nicest sites, so
we ended up right at the water's edge and, after finding the area had endless
great roads, we stayed here for the rest of the trip. I covered at
least 2000 km and didn't find anything but great bike roads - this is definitely
on the "must return" list. These pictures are all taken in Tioga
County.
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Nice forest roads
.. just remember where you parked
it!
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Nice twisties ...
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Nice scenery ...
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Lots of blooms at the roadside
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.. and on the forest roads
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More general pictures from this trip are on my travel
pages.
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