Circum-Lake-ations

Gary R. Brower said:

All,

I'm starting to compile a list of road rides around major lakes in the US. As a westerner, several
immediately spring to mind:

Lake Tahoe, OR/NV (73 miles) Clear Lake, CA (prox 70 miles) Crater Lake, OR (prox 30 miles)

Are there others -- primarily in the day-long trip range?

Thanks!

Gary Brower [email hidden]

Lake Washington, WA (55 miles, approx.)

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I'm starting to compile a list of road rides around major lakes in the US. As a westerner, several
immediately spring to mind:

Lake Tahoe, OR/NV (73 miles) Clear Lake, CA (prox 70 miles) Crater Lake, OR (prox 30 miles)

Are there others -- primarily in the day-long trip range?

There is a web page you might be interested in: pbaa.comWorldRecords.htmOpen ↗

This is part of a page kept by the Perimeter Bicycle Association of America, and their informal
record times for cycling perimeters of various places including lakes. Looks like 50+ lakes
listed there...

--mev, Mike Vermeulen

Gary R. Brower said:

All,

I'm starting to compile a list of road rides around major lakes in the US. As a westerner, several
immediately spring to mind:

Lake Tahoe, OR/NV (73 miles) Clear Lake, CA (prox 70 miles) Crater Lake, OR (prox 30 miles)

Are there others -- primarily in the day-long trip range?

Thanks!

Gary Brower [email hidden]

You forgot the classic one. Utah Lake, 100 miles. (Check the route for the ULCER Century, completed
last weekend, supported by Bingham Cyclery in SLC.)

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in the Finger Lakes of New York state: Seneca Lake (around 80-100 miles?) Cayuga Lake (about 100
miles?) Lake Skaneatles (under 50 miles?) -- shorter but nice

and several more.

Ken

In Wisconsin, Lake Winnebago is about 80 miles, mostly urbanized on the west side, better riding on
the east side.

The Great Lakes, of course, are not day rides. My ride around Lake Michigan was about 925 miles,
almost the same around Lake Huron (shorter if you cut off the Georgian Bay, and 1300 miles around
Lake Superior. "Gary R. Brower" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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All,

I'm starting to compile a list of road rides around major lakes in the US. As a westerner, several
immediately spring to mind:

Lake Tahoe, OR/NV (73 miles) Clear Lake, CA (prox 70 miles) Crater Lake, OR (prox 30 miles)

Are there others -- primarily in the day-long trip range?

Thanks!

Gary Brower [email hidden]

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In Wisconsin, Lake Winnebago is about 80 miles, mostly urbanized on the

west

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side, better riding on the east side.

The Great Lakes, of course, are not day rides. My ride around Lake

Michigan

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was about 925 miles, almost the same around Lake Huron (shorter if you cut off the Georgian Bay,
and 1300 miles around Lake Superior.

Ron, you might want to check out the site mentioned by another poster:

pbaa.comWorldRecords.htmOpen ↗

The "record" for bicycling around Lake Michigan is listed as 67 days, 2 hrs,10 min. by Bill Mueller.

You might have already bested that record by a factor of 5 or so.

Those are obviously not records but just things that people posted. Our group of three did Lake
Michigan in a week in 1986, which is barely over 130 miles per day - a nice pace but hardly "record"
material. Riding alone last summer, I did Lake Huron in under 6 days, averaging 170 miles per day,
again a nice pace but only about half the pace the RAAM riders do across the whole US. I'd estimate
they could do Lake Michigan in 3 days and require that much only because of delays getting through
the urbanized area from Gary to Milwaukee and across the Mackinac Bridge.

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"Ron Wallenfang" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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In Wisconsin, Lake Winnebago is about 80 miles, mostly urbanized on the

west

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side, better riding on the east side.

The Great Lakes, of course, are not day rides. My ride around Lake

Michigan

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was about 925 miles, almost the same around Lake Huron (shorter if you

cut

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off the Georgian Bay, and 1300 miles around Lake Superior.

Ron, you might want to check out the site mentioned by another poster:

pbaa.comWorldRecords.htmOpen ↗

The "record" for bicycling around Lake Michigan is listed as 67 days, 2 hrs,10 min. by Bill
Mueller.

You might have already bested that record by a factor of 5 or so.

Gary R. Brower said:

I'm starting to compile a list of road rides around major lakes in the US. As a westerner, several
immediately spring to mind:

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Lake Tahoe, OR/NV (73 miles) Clear Lake, CA (prox 70 miles) Crater Lake, OR (prox 30 miles)

Bear Lake, on the Utah/Idaho border, is delightful. In summer, that
is.

Bill

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central New York - the Finger Lakes.
Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake

Lake Champlain, but it might take more than one day! Chautauqua Lake

Maine - too few of the lakes have roads all the way around, and some of those roads are private only
- for logging. In the past people have used the roads and then sued the logging trucks for
accidents. So they closed them. If you ever are on one of these roads and a truck is coming you have
to get off the road if you want to survive.

Lake Sebago

-Bruce

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Gary R. Brower said:

I'm starting to compile a list of road rides around major lakes in the

US.

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As a westerner, several immediately spring to mind:

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Lake Tahoe, OR/NV (73 miles) Clear Lake, CA (prox 70 miles) Crater Lake, OR (prox 30 miles)

Bear Lake, on the Utah/Idaho border, is delightful. In summer, that
is.

Bill

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20 Nov 2003 said:

Gary R. Brower said:

I'm starting to compile a list of road rides around major lakes in the US. As a westerner,
several immediately spring to mind:

Maybe you want to expand the list beyond the US. Here in Nova Scotia a nice round-the-lake ride
is around Lake Ainslie. But it's only an easy afternoon ride of about 60 km. It's best to ride
around clockwise.

Expanding the list globally, the first ride I think of is the ride Round "THE LAKE"
(VÄTTERN-RUNDAN).

Vättern (sometimes spelled "Vettern" or "Wettern"😉 is the second largest lake in Sweden.

-- "The name itself, plain and simple, means 'the water' (ie the lake) --as if no other lakes should
be counted." (quote from Swedish article: "llk.sevattern.htmOpen ↗"😉

It has become a yearly tradition for all serious cyclists in Sweden to gather in Motala on a
weekend in mid-June and ride around the lake, a 300 km loop, in one day. The limit it set at about
15000 riders and that number is usually filled 4 months before the ride. I was lucky to get into
it in 1994. (there were some cancellations in registered participants)

info at: "cyklavaettern.comenglishOpen ↗"

My old VR story at: www3.ns.sympatico.canorden2.htmlOpen ↗

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Lake Champlain, but it might take more than one day!

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-Bruce

I don't think there is any 'might' about it. The principal route around Lake Champlain covers 2
states (NY & VT) and is about 300 miles with quite a few decent hill climes along the way. Check out
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Gary R. Brower said:

I'm starting to compile a list of road rides around major lakes in the

US.

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As a westerner, several immediately spring to mind:

Lake Tahoe, OR/NV (73 miles) Clear Lake, CA (prox 70 miles) Crater Lake, OR (prox 30 miles)

The ride around Lake Washington is very popular around here. The whole thing can be done in what, 70
miles or so. There's a floating bridge across the middle with a bike trail, so you can do just half
the lake, or do a figure 8 style ride for more miles.

I also have ridden around Lake Sammamish many times. That loop is what -- about 30 miles?

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What about Flathead Lake in western Montana? I've been around most of it in a car -- the road on the
west side looks good for riding, although the frequency of roadside crosses (sites of fatal
accidents) is disconcerting on what doesn't appear to be a dangerous road, and there's a local
bumpersticker that says, "Pray for me, I drive [Highway] 93." The road on the east side looks less
suitable, with narrow or no shoulders and sometimes heavy traffic. Any experiences on that
circum-lake-ation?

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In article <[email hidden]>, "Ken Roberts"

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in the Finger Lakes of New York state: Seneca Lake (around 80-100 miles?) Cayuga Lake (about 100
miles?) Lake Skaneatles (under 50 miles?) -- shorter but nice

Lake Skaneateles is about 42-45 miles on a pretty direct route around it, I did that this summer.
Very nice.

Keith

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Do Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron count as "major lakes"? They are all bikeable. Even I managed
it. Superior is easily the most difficult of the three, besides being the longest. (1300 plus miles
vs 925 for Michigan and 850 for Huron - less if you cut off the Georgian Bay.) Hills, a few marginal
stretches of road with heavy truck traffic, and frequent long distances between towns and services
(e.g. there are significant areas where no cell phone service is available.) all contribute to this
conclusion.

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Gary R. Brower said:

I'm starting to compile a list of road rides around major lakes in the

US.

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As a westerner, several immediately spring to mind:

Quoted message said:

Lake Tahoe, OR/NV (73 miles) Clear Lake, CA (prox 70 miles) Crater Lake, OR (prox 30 miles)

Bear Lake, on the Utah/Idaho border, is delightful. In summer, that
is.

Bill

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Ron Wallenfang said:

Do Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron count as "major lakes"? They are all bikeable. Even I
managed it. Superior is easily the most difficult of the three, besides being the longest. (1300
plus miles vs 925 for Michigan and 850 for Huron - less if you cut off the Georgian Bay.) Hills, a
few marginal stretches of road with heavy truck traffic, and frequent long distances between towns
and services (e.g. there are significant areas where no cell phone service is available.) all
contribute to this conclusion.

The North Shore of Lake Superior (in Minnesota from Duluth to Grand Portage) is stunningly
beautiful. In the summer it's also very high traffic and crowded with tourists, especially around
Two Harbors. If you ride it, take the old Hwy 61 scenic route from north Duluth through Knife River
(stop in at B.E. Nelson's jewelry shop in his hand-built traditional Norwegian building) to Two
Harbors. It's nicer and safer than the new Hwy 61 fourlane. North of Gooseberry Falls State Park,
traffic tends to thin out. A full-width shoulder has been added to much of Hwy 61, which reduces the
scenic factor somewhat IMHO but greatly improves safety.

Great meals: Scenic Cafe (Knife River) and The Angry Trout (Grand Marais). Great accomodations:
Naniboujou Lodge (north of Grand Marais in Hovland). Actually, Hwy 61 is one of the most beautiful
roads in America. A few flat boring stretches between the Twin Cities and Duluth, but from Iowa to
Hastings and from Duluth north, it's spectacular.