Kent Island trails?

[jrenaut]

I’m going to be in Kent Island, MD over Thanksgiving, and was wondering if anyone knew the paved trails there. I’ve found a bit online, but I thought that surely someone here ventures that far away and can tell me better than some of the ten year old descriptions of trails I’ve found so far.

Starting point will be up on the East side of Love Point, and I’d like to be able to bike whatever route without having to drive somewhere.

Any suggestions?

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[CCrew]

My Mom lives in Queenstown. Only trail I’m aware of is the Cross Island Trail, starts at Terrapin Nature park and runs like 6 miles or so (all paved)

Old Love Point park is at about the 1mi marker.

Lots of low traffic roads in the area though, and mostly flat.

[jrenaut]

Is Love Point Road bikeable? If not, it looks like I can get to that trail on back roads, at least according to Google Maps.

[CCrew]

@jrenaut 8724 wrote:

Is Love Point Road bikeable? If not, it looks like I can get to that trail on back roads, at least according to Google Maps.

Most of the roads in that area have little to no shoulder, but good sight lines. I think “bikeable” is in the eye of the beholder. To me, yes, but I’m not put off by road riding. If you’re averse to riding on roads without a bike lane or wide shoulder you’re probably not going to like much of that area. Most isn’t heavily trafficked but you’re still riding on road.

I know Dirt and others ride the Eastern shore on occasion, they may weigh in here too.

[americancyclo]

Haven’t been there personally, but it looks like there are a bunch of mapped rides near Stevensville.
http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/list/Bike/United%20States/Maryland/Stevensville

[Dirt]

We usually base our Eastern Shore rides out of Easton. The farm roads in that area are awesome. Potomac Pedalers have some good routes in that area. Google finds their site. Fortunately or unfortunately they moved their cue sheet library into the Member section. In my book it is well worth the price of admission.

[jrenaut]

@CCrew – I think I’m okay on roads, but most of my road experience is downtown, not out on more rural roads. I guess I’ll have to try.

@americancyclo – I had forgotten about mapmyride. Now i just need to put their mobile app back on my phone

@Dirt – Potomac Pedalers looks good – I can’t imagine it will hurt to be a member of another local bike organization.

[Dirt]

Their catalogue of cue sheets has been an awesome way to explore the area. Using them in conjunction with a GPS has been a good resource for new loops. Though some are somewhat dated, they’ve got hundreds of great rides. I enter them into RideWithGPS.com and then drop them into my Garmin and go. I feel pretty good about leading a ride that I’ve never done before.

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