Bicycling
Lake Ontario
Cycling Around Lake Ontario
Golden Hill State Park © Harvey Botzman, 2004
'Round Lake Ontario: A Bicyclist's Tour Guide,
3rd Edition
will be published by April 18, 2008.
Reserve your copy by emailing us, cyclotour@cyclotour.com
with your name, address and telephone number.
Here are some comments from bicyclists who used the 2nd edition and
wrote us about this definitive tour guide:
I will publicly state, when I publish my
crazyguy journal that your route is the right route.
Every time I deviated from it I paid
dearly.
J. S., Pepper Pike OH, July, 2007, www.crazyguyonabike.com
My wife Karen and our two friends Amanda and Rodger returned Friday
night from an Eastern [as opposed to where the writer lives] New York bike ride.
You may recall you gave us some hints on where and how. I'm reporting that we had an
extraordinary ride. We began on the Lake Ontario Parkway at Lakeside Beach State Park,
rode west to Olcott, then down to Lockport where we stayed the night. The next day we rode
the Erie Canal trail to Western Rochester. The last day we rode north, through Rochester
to the Parkway and back to our van at Lakeside Beach.
The weather was perfect, the trail easy, and the scenery delightful. By
the way, some guy in a Rochester bike shop that I talked with by phone before we left
advised us strongly NOT to use the Lake Ontario Parkway. Rough roads and much traffic he
said. He was nuts! I can't believe the state of New York spent tax payer dollars on the
Parkway. We had it to ourselves! Very enjoyable ride.
Thanks a lot for your advise. It tipped the scale in favor of Western
New York. It was much appreciated.
L. M., Holland MI, September, 2007.
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Traveling around Lake Ontario is a cyclotourist's dream tour. It is a
varied two week trip with enough sights and sounds; smells and tastes to enjoy and savor
every moment of the tour.
'Round Lake Ontario: A Bicyclist's Tour Guide, 2nd Edition,
is the only tour guide which covers the entire land circumnavigation route around
this wonderful Great Lake. There are no motoring guides which are as comprehensive as
'Round Lake Ontario: A Bicyclist's Tour Guide, 2nd Ed.! Below is a sample map from the 1st Edition of this wonderful Tour
Guide.
Lake Ontario has great historical significance for all Americans
(citizens of Canada and the United States). Major naval battles of the War of 1812 were
fought on the Lake. Crossing Lake Ontario was one of the last way stations on the underground
railroad for African-Americans escaping slavery in the United States.
At both ends of the Lake, canals were dug to transport the raw
materials, agricultural products and finished goods of the Adirondack Mountains, western
New York State, eastern Ontario, Québec, and the Great Lakes region to the Atlantic Coast
cities of North America and Europe. These Canals were and necessary for the growth of all
of North America.
The route along the Rideau Canal from Kingston to Ottawa is included in
'Round Lake Ontario: A Bicyclist's Tour Guide. The bicycle route along the St.
Lawrence River from Kingston to Montreal also is detailed in 'Round Lake Ontario.
Both of these "side trips" are popular trip extensions for bicyclists touring
around Lake Ontario.
In earlier days, Lake Ontario teemed with fine tasting freshwater fish.
Today the Lake Ontario fisheries are prime venues for sport fishermen and women. Many
cyclotourists bring collapsible fishing poles to catch their dinner along the way. Others
simply enjoy catching the salmon, trout and bass for sport and then returning the fish to
their rightful place in the Lake.
Large sophisticated cities (Toronto and Buffalo); wonderful livable
moderate sized urban areas (Rochester and Hamilton); college towns growing with retirement
communities (Kingston, and Oswego); North America's original tourist attraction (Niagara
Falls); and lots of rural cycling in between delightful villages are some of the delights
of a cyclotour along Lake Ontario's shore.
The wineries on the Niagara Peninsula between Niagara Falls and
Hamilton are noted for their excellent reds. All the wineries are listed in the Guide
so that the cyclotourist can enjoy a bottle of wine, a loaf of bread and ....
A few links to Lake Ontario related web sites:
Lake Ontario Sailing: http://www.lakeontariosailing.com/links.htm
@Rochester, NY: http://roch.com/recreation/cyclotour-guide-books-936.html
Bruce Trail (Hiking only): http://www.torontobrucetrailclub.org &
https://media6.magma.ca/www.torontobrucetrailclub.org/indexhttps.html
State (NY) Council on Waterways: http://www.scow.net/scow_links.htm
Info Rochester: http://www.inforochester.com/bike.htm
Info Buffalo: http://www.infobuffalo.com/bike.htm
Sample Map page from the 1st ed. of 'Round Lake Ontario: A Bicyclist's Tour
Guide
Lakeside State
Park to Golden Hill State Park
The map (from the 1st ed.) below shows the both the rapid route using
Rt.18 and the scenic route near the lakeshore through farmland on the Lake Ontario South
shore in rural Orleans County, N. Y.
Here's a map from the 1st Editon. The maps in the 3nd Edition & its revisions are much
clearer.
Map, 1st Ed., © Harvey Botzman, 1994.
'Round Lake Ontario: A Bicyclist's Tour Guide, 3rd Ed., Anticipated publication date: late April, 2008. us$25.95.
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