Another great ride on Rochester’s bike trail system (Comments: 1)

Last weekend I biked along the Genesee Riverway Trail through Genesee Valley Park and on to the Erie Canalway Trail to Pittsford. This ride is easy to get to from the South Wedge/Highland Park/University of Rochester neighborhood, is quite scenic, and you get to rest in the middle at Schoen Place, where you can have ice cream, coffee, crepes, great diner food, or Greek food. There’s even a bike shop, though it was closed on Sundays. It’s about a twenty mile ride.

Here are some scenes.

This is the view of downtown Rochester from the north end of the University of Rochester campus.

And here’s the sign describing describing some geography and history of the area.

I love that this sign actually encourages use of the canal path as a means of transportation!

Even though this sign is immediately overhead the previous one…

I don’t know the name of the bush, but these orange berries near Meridian Center Park in Brighton caught my eye.

The sky became more dramatic as sunset neared.

I took a shortcut home (in order to get home in time to hear This American Life on NPR), up East Henrietta Rd., past the waste management plant, the smokestack looking downright picturesque.

If I did need to commute from this part of the city east, it would be very easy. In fact, as I biked past French Road Elementary School, I laughed at the thought that my kids are probably eternally grateful that I (re)discovered biking later in their lives. Otherwise the commute to their school would have been along the canal on an XtraCycle (and I can guarantee that would have been quite a sight in Brighton ten years ago!) It’s good you’re starting Bernie and John young, Jason!