Looking for Route info - central NH to central VT
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Looking for Route info - central NH to central VT
Hey Folks,
Gonna be heading across NH to central VT for Mother's day weekend, with my wife and daughter in tow. Assuming the weather looks reasonably decent, I plan to ride, and they will follow in the cage. We are heading for Stockbridge VT.
I'm looking for a route that is fairly bike friendly, and avoids large stretches on the slab. But for the wife and kid's sake, I don't want to be a completely roundabout route, either. Google Maps has come up with a couple options, and I played around with it some and came up with this (leaving from Lebanon ME/Milton NH).
NH 75 to NH11, 11 to NH 3 up into Laconia/Belmont (I'm very familiar with this section - rode it today - so should be good to go here).
Continue NH 3 / NH 11 to Andover, NH, where I'll pick up NH 4A to Lebanon NH.
Continue on Rt. 4 into VT, across to VT 100 at Killington, and 100 North to Stockbridge.
This route calculates out to 141 miles and 3h31m on Google Maps. The slab route up I-89 is the same distance and cuts 1 hour. I can live with the 3.5 hours as long as the roads aren't terrible. Don't really want to add much more time than that though.
Maps originally suggested a more northerly route from the VT line, Up route 14 paralleling I-89 and the White River to 107, then 107 across to Stockbridge. I've never been on 14 or 107 in VT, but have been on 4 once, and 100 several times (in a cage).
Can anyone suggest any alternatives to my planned route that would either save some time without running I-89, or would be similar time but better scenery, or if any of my planned route is in really rough shape?
Thanks,
Dan
Gonna be heading across NH to central VT for Mother's day weekend, with my wife and daughter in tow. Assuming the weather looks reasonably decent, I plan to ride, and they will follow in the cage. We are heading for Stockbridge VT.
I'm looking for a route that is fairly bike friendly, and avoids large stretches on the slab. But for the wife and kid's sake, I don't want to be a completely roundabout route, either. Google Maps has come up with a couple options, and I played around with it some and came up with this (leaving from Lebanon ME/Milton NH).
NH 75 to NH11, 11 to NH 3 up into Laconia/Belmont (I'm very familiar with this section - rode it today - so should be good to go here).
Continue NH 3 / NH 11 to Andover, NH, where I'll pick up NH 4A to Lebanon NH.
Continue on Rt. 4 into VT, across to VT 100 at Killington, and 100 North to Stockbridge.
This route calculates out to 141 miles and 3h31m on Google Maps. The slab route up I-89 is the same distance and cuts 1 hour. I can live with the 3.5 hours as long as the roads aren't terrible. Don't really want to add much more time than that though.
Maps originally suggested a more northerly route from the VT line, Up route 14 paralleling I-89 and the White River to 107, then 107 across to Stockbridge. I've never been on 14 or 107 in VT, but have been on 4 once, and 100 several times (in a cage).
Can anyone suggest any alternatives to my planned route that would either save some time without running I-89, or would be similar time but better scenery, or if any of my planned route is in really rough shape?
Thanks,
Dan
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FWIW, this isn't a joke, and it will be the longest ride I've done, in one shot, since I got the bike last September. I'd rather have more info than less, for places I've never been before. Some of the roads in NH are in rough shape, so I imagine some in VT are too - I'd like to avoid 50 miles of frost heaves if I can.
Thanks all for the continued input.
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I'd personally love to have the time in my life to take frequent 140 mile rides on a daily basis - but I work 50-55 hours a week during riding season (and mostly can't commute on the bike due to needing my truck for work) and have a wife (who also works 40 hours a week) and 5 year old daughter to spend time with as well as a house to take care of. A ride like this, for me, either involves the wife and kid coming along, or schedule coordination so I can take off for a day without unduly impacting them too much. I'm sure it's nothing to most of you guys, but I'm completely psyched to have the chance to take this trip - it's a big deal for me.
As far as your previous comments, it's all good - no need to delete them for my sake. But of course they are your comments, so yours to do what you wish with. In my head their tone was rather venomous - but perhaps I am more sensitive than I like to let on . And we all know how easy it is to misinterpret tone in a text-only forum. I appreciate your expansion and explanation of the original comments.
Ride safe!
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