Early Springtime ride in Brownfield
Weather.com says that Thursday should be a good day for a bike ride in the Mt. Washington Valley! I have mapped out the Brownfield ride so that it should be a good one for early-in-the-season biking muscles and saddle. This version does not do the steep climbs on the east side of the Saco - save them for later in the season! There are great views on this ride, and a really nice cruise downhill on Sam Brown Hill Road! There are ways to lengthen or shorten this ride if you like.
Meet: Maine Visitors Center, Fryeburg. It is on the right, just over the NH border on Route 302. It looks like a railroad station - has bathrooms!
Time: Ready to ride at 10:00 am
Distance 23 miles
Route: It is about 5.5 miles on Haleytown Road to the intersection with Hampshire Rd. Ride to the intersection with route 113 and you have about 9 miles. Turn right onto 113 for about 100 yards, then right again on Pig Street (flattest road in town), back to Hampshire (also called Main Street), then, at about 11 miles, bear left onto Merrill Corner Road (NOT Dugway Road. Merrill Corner if after Dugway, just before crossing a bridge). This is a gradual uphill grade (good early season spin). Shorten the ride about 5 miles by staying on Hampshire and riding back to Haleytown -- but you miss the views!). Turn left onto Old County Road for another gradual climb, then a right onto Sam Brown Hill Road. Enjoy the view and the downhill! Right onto Porter, right onto Hampshire (at the bottom of Asparagus Hill! Smile, you won't be climbing it!), then left back onto Haleytown to the parking lot.
This is one of Connie's favorite rides, - it is a great ride, thank you Connie!!!
Here is a map:
Greetings to everyone from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Tom and I did a great ride yesterday in the high desert. Can it rain in the desert??? You betcha. We waited 1.5 hours in a town park gazebo for a spectacular thunderstorm to pass. Rain, hail, lightening and rivers of water rushing down the center of the road. It cleared out and dried in 10 minutes. The bad news was that the anxiously anticipated tailwind for the ride home shifted (of course) to a nasty side wind until the final 5 miles where we finally hoisted sails and flew back to the car.
Enjoy your bike ride in the new spring green! Out here in desert beige and tan, spring green would be a good color for a hi-vis bike shirt!
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