Bridge of Dreams, Ohio - Smart-Guided Amish Country Bikeway Tour

This tour has some really nice features that all lead to the Bridge of Dreams!

If you are looking to get in a long or short bikeway ride through wooded countryside then move this one to the top of your short list. Here's why - the majority of the route is a rail-to-trail, quite rural, and has a flexible total length with optional starting spots. Most of the tour runs alongside or crosses over three scenic rivers - Mohican River, Jelloway Creek, and Kokosing River - using three rails-to-trails bikeways: Mohican Valley Trail, Kokosing Gap Trail, and Heart of Ohio Trail.

At the tour's turnaround spot is Ohio's famous Bridge of Dreams, which "happens to be the second-longest covered bridge in the state and the third-longest in the nation". The bridge serves as a link for the Amish equestrian community connecting the Holmes County Trail - "the first recreational trail in the country designed to accommodate Amish horse-drawn buggies -to the Mohican Valley Trail. At moments you may be sharing the trail with horse-drawn Amish buggies.

Along the route is a small-town America refreshment stop at a quaint tasty spot. Restroom facilities are conveniently positioned along the bikeway. With numerous scenic vistas and railroad history to take in, this memory-making tour often experiences ooh-and-ahh stops along with group and selfie poses.

GO LONG OR GO SHORT

Do it all. Or do half. End to end a beautiful long or short smart-guided bikeway adventure to the Bridge of Dreams in Ohio's Amish country.

Rider's choice! 18 or 40 roundtrip miles on beautiful countryside rail-to-trail bikeways. Both routes are shaded most of the way, are 92% bikeway, and have one hill climb for your bike's climbing gears to reach the tasty stop (there are bike racks trailside to lock bikes to if you choose to walk up the hill to the restaurant without your bike). Your ticket purchase includes both the long and short tour routes.

This is a CycleNuts LoST Tour which is an acronym for Long or ShorT - a CycleNuts group favorite. Because it has two lengths it is a LoST tour. How LoST Tours work. The 18-mile and 40-mile routes start at different locations; travel some of the same bikeways; allow both groups (long and short - in case your crew is riding along with you) an opportunity to stop at the same CycleNuts tested and approved tasty spot; and both long and short routes turnaround at the Bridge of Dreams.

Points of Interest:

• Howard
• Danville
• Gambier
• Mt Sterling
• Kenyon College
• Bridge of Dreams
• Heart of Ohio Trail
• Kokosing Gap Trail
• Mohican Valley Trail
• Ariel Foundation Park
• Ohio's Amish Country

HERE'S THE PLAN: You bring a bike and a smartphone. CycleNuts provides the smart-tour guide! Via an email, you receive an expertly designed tour route. 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.

From your location click on link 1 provided by CycleNuts (using your cell phone) and follow the Google Maps directions to the starting spot. Unload your bike (if you transported it to the starting spot), or if you rode to the starting spot, you are good to go. Click on link 2 provided by CycleNuts and begin the tour (for more complex tours there may also be a link 3 or 4 to click on along the way and additional instructions).

ARE YOU READY TO ROLL? GREAT... LET'S HIT THE TRAILS!

GET YOUR TICKET TODAY! - the tour starting and ending times on the ticket are only a general guideline to give you an idea of how much time the tour may take at the minimum. Your time in the saddle, on the trail, and starting times are your call - it's your tour. One ticket equals fun for all! Bring as many people as you wish on your tour. Ticket purchase is for the CycleNuts Selfie Smart-guided route only. Attractions, lodgings, food, bike rental, etc. are not included in the ticket purchase.

CycleNuts Selfie Tours tie together fun, interesting, scenic, historic, tasty, and refreshing points of interest along a bikeway-focused tour route where you ride at your pace and pleasure. You are the tour boss. You pick the date and time - the ticket is good for any day or time - dates/times listed only as a guideline to give you an idea of how long the tour normally takes.

With these smart-guided bikeway cycling adventures, you bring the bike and smartphone, and CycleNuts provides the Smart Guide. The Smart Guide gives voice and visual turn-by-turn instructions along an expertly designed and tested tour route.

Do the tour solo or bring along your crew. 1 ticket = fun for all! Easily stop anywhere along the way to visit attractions or refreshments and the Smart Guide will continue the route from wherever you are when you are ready to roll.

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