BIKATION 2025 - OHIO

A guided 900-mile month-long loop from Columbus to Cleveland to NE Ohio to Amish Country to Hocking Hills using 40 bikeways, 40 daily miles.

Join us for a unique, fun month-long bike tour experience! With smart-guided technology, you can ride ahead or behind the group to proceed at your own pace and take in the sights and sounds of this Ohio tour. Our expertly designed route will take you on a journey through the state, stopping at popular landmarks and hidden gems along the way. And, with our voice and map-guided instructions, you'll never get lost or feel confused. Plus, our tours are designed to be fun and engaging for everyone, so bring your friends and family and enjoy the ride together!

Group bikeway cycle tours do not get much better than this. Ohio cities, towns, communities, countrysides, lakes, rivers, parks, nicely designed bikeways, historical places, and great spots along the way for selfie pictures (it is, after all, a Bikation).

There are many great reasons to cycle tour Ohio. This adventure will get your wheels onto the growing cycling infrastructure of this award-winning state that leads the nation in dedicated bikeway miles. Never see the same thing twice on this Long One-way Loop (LOL) Semi-selfie Tour - except for the starting spot. Easily add to the adventure by detouring to explore the numerous points of interest (see the list, below)

This Bikation starts where it ends, near Scioto Audobon Dog Park. Bring your furry friend on tour, if you wish. Pete the poodle is coming along! The overnight stays are partly chosen for their pet-friendly policy.

The 900-mile semi-smart-guided route is guestimated at 50% bikeway (that is still being calculated at the time of this posting) and comes with CycleNuts' 50% downhill guarantee. It is estimated that half of the route is dedicated bikeways and bike lanes that follow the lay of the land, which in many areas is hilly. Your bike's gears will see use. Where bikeways are not available, roadways chosen by bike apps as bicycle-friendly will be used to connect the dots.

E-bikes are appropriate for this adventure. Daily 40-mile averages between overnight stays where batteries can be recharged fit in with ebike battery distance standards. The relatively short daily mileage also makes this long-distance adventure quite doable for the average not-e bike rider. If 40 miles daily is not doable for you, then this is probably not a good tour to attend with the group on May 5th. But it may be doable in segments at your own pace and schedule on some other day.

The route may be shaded about 50% of the way - and it may even rain from time to time. Snow is not expected. Sweating is optional. You set your pace, starting time, and touring agenda on this semi-smart-guided tour or, pace with the provided tour guide. Semi-smart-guided means that each cyclist is provided with the smart-guided tour route (probably in both Google Maps and Ride With GPS formats) to follow along with the provided tour guide or to ride separately at their own pace meeting up at the end of each day at the same overnight stay, or not. This also allows participants to take some time off to jump ahead or skip segments of the tour, and later join up with the tour group, or not.

Points of interest:

• Perry
• Xenia
• Akron
• Dover
• Burton
• Warren
• Chardon
• Lake Erie
• Ashtabula
• Cleveland
• Columbus
• Painesville
• Chillicothe
• Alum Creek
• Grand River
• Scioto River
• Hocking Hills
• Cuyahoga River
• Ohio State Parks
• Newcomerstown
• Ohio & Erie Canal
• Muskingum River
• Tuscarawas River
• Amish communities
• Wayne National Forest
• Tar Hollow State Forest
• Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Bikeways:

• AC&Y Trail
• Olentangy Trail
• Zoar Valley Trail
• Centennial Trail
• Niles Greenway
• Prairie Grass Trail
• Summit Lake Trail
• Camp Chase Trail
• Richland B&O Trail
• Moonville Rail Trail
• Lake-to-Lakes Trail
• Valley Parkway Trail
• Shaker Median Trail
• Harrison Dillard Trail
• Buckhorn Creek Trail
• Great Guernsey Trail
• Maple Highlands Trail
• Olde Muskingum Trail
• Scenic Park Loop Trail
• Mineral Lake Park Trail
• Ohio to Erie Trail - OTET
• Lower Scioto Greenway
• North Coast Inland Trail
• Tri-County Triangle Trail
• Centennial Lake Link Trail
• Garrett Wonders Bike Trail
• Highbanks Metro Park Trail
• Western Reserve Greenway
• Cleveland Lakefront Bikeway
• Hockhocking Adena Bikeway
• Paint Creek Recreational Trail
• The Portage Hike and Bike Trail
• Whiskey Island Connector Trail
• Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail
• Clinton-Fayette Friendship Trail
• Xenia-Jamestown Connector Trail
• Summit Metroparks Freedom Trail
• Lake Metroparks Greenway Corridor
• North Olmsted Walking and Bike Trail
• Maple Highlands Trail - North Section
• Congressman Ralph Regula Towpath Trail

WHY CHOOSE A Semi-smart-guided Selfie Cycle Tour?

You get all the benefits of a guided tour without the drawbacks of a tour guide, other tourists, time restrictions, and a rigid tour agenda if you wish. With this semi-smart-guided tour, you can go when you want at your speed and hang out at a spot as long as you wish. You can even wander off the planned route and the smart guide will get you back on track when you are ready and at the end of the day join up with the tour group or not. Either way, you have the route at your fingertips.

HERE'S THE PLAN: You bring a bike and a smartphone. CycleNuts provides the tour guide and the semi-smart-tour guide links! You will receive an expertly designed tour route via email. Click the emailed link and follow the Selfie Tour route using your smartphone as your smart-tour guide for the Voice and Map guided turn-by-turn instructions, or just follow the tour guide.

SHORT INSTRUCTIONS: From your location, using your cell phone click on the starting spot link and follow the Google Maps directions. When you arrive, follow the tour guide or click the emailed tour navigation links to begin the tour. The navigation links will be either Google Maps, Ride With GPS (RWGPS), or both. For more complex tours, there may be several links to click with additional instructions. With Google Maps, the navigator will prompt you at each checkpoint to continue navigation.

REGISTER NOW AND RIDE WHENEVER AND FOREVER. The route links do not expire. Register now and plan your adventure - invite your favorite peeps or ride solo; make overnight accommodation reservations; reserve a sitter for your pets. Many tours include dog-friendly tasty spots, as noted in the tour instructions. Here are two CycleNuts tested and approved sites for pet owners: Bring Fido for those touring with dogs; and Rover for those needing pet sitters. Registration provides the CycleNuts Selfie Smart-guided route links and instructions, and a tour guide looking for you at the start of the tour. Attractions, lodgings, food, bike rental, etc. are not included.

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