2025 Grand Adventure Premiere
Actually the GAP is for the Great Allegheny Passage rails-to-trails that was just conquered this week: https://gaptrail.org/…all 150 miles and then some!
Bridges, Breaks and Bright Spots can be found all along this route from Pittsburgh to Cumberland…but May is also a wet month so plan accordingly!
Day 1 - Our group trip began with a van & gear trailer ride from Roanoke, VA to Pittsburgh, PA and then a late afternoon ride to the Point State Park: 10 miles out and back from the Homestead area of south Pittsburgh to the confluence of the three rivers…Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers (Point State Park).
Day 2 - Homestead to Connellsville was 53 miles with a jaunt off trail for lunch…and a very nice cool sunny day…the last of the sunshine for this tour! Bud Murphys for dinner that evening was wings, pizza and beer and it was a hopping place.
Day 3 - Connellsville Bed & Breakfast provided sleeping arrangements and a remarkable breakfast to start the day’s journey to Meyersdale…a mere 60 miles including the lunch off-trail excursion to Mitch’s Fuel and Food in Confluence…wonderful stop despite the damp riding conditions!
Day 4 - Lodging the 3rd night was an old morgue and hardware store, thus aptly named Morguen Tool Company…an eclectic collection of rooms and mazes of hallways. Another damp riding day, but not deterring this group from riding on! Only 32 miles this day, but it carried us to the Eastern Continental Divide and Mason Dixon Line before dumping us into Cumberland… After a nice lunch and ice cream stop, the van and trailer was reloaded for the trip back home…8 tired but happy “senior” riders.