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Aspetuck
Saugatuck Reservoir Ride
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NOTE: This Ride Description and its
corresponding Route Sheet may not have been checked for accuracy by the www.ctbikeroutes.org team
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Total Distance: 30.2 miles Elevation Gain: Estimated 1,600 feet
Degree
of Difficulty Index: 1,600 ft / 30.2 mi = 52.98 ft/mi Terrain: Rolling to Hilly
Killer
Hills: Several long grades, but no killer hills
Geographical Region: Fairfield County
City/Town: Westport, Fairfield,
Easton, Weston, and Redding
Starting Location: Coleytown Middle
School, 255 North Ave. , Westport, off Rt. 15 Exit 42
Ride Description: Tour three major reservoirs (Aspetuck, Hemlock, and
Saugatuck) providing plenty of water views and forested scenery. The long
grade up Rt. 58 is rewarded with a steady three-mile downhill on Newtown
Turnpike. Directions: From Merritt Pkwy. Exit 42, head north on Rt. 57. Right
at light on Lyons Plains Rd. Bear right on Coleytown Rd. Go one-half mile.
Right on North Ave. Right into first driveway.
Notes: The route sheet includes a map. The
"Mile" column on the route sheet shows distances in hundredths.
Keep in mind that bicycle computers tend to be calibrated differently and
that the distances shown on your computer may vary from those on the route
sheet.
Note: Cross
Highway at the beginning of the ride and Cross Highway after the food stop
are two entirely different roads in two different towns (Westport and Redding
respectively), although both happen to travel east-west.
Facilities and Points
of Interest:
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Mile
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Facilities
- Points of Interest
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8.1
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Connecticut
Audubon Center on left: hiking and a nature center
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8.6
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Hemlock
Reservoir straight ahead
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11.1
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Option
to shorten the route to 15.4 miles by turning left on Rt. 136 South at
traffic light
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11.6-12.6
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Aspetuck
Reservoir on right
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16.5
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Redding
Ridge Market on left: Food Stop
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20.0-24.6
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Saugatuck
Reservoir and Centennial Watershed State Forest are on the left
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22.1-22.8
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Devils
Den, a Nature Conservancy property with 1,750 acres of land is on the right
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25.5
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Scenic
gorge on the right with rapids and rocks;
Trout
Brook Valley with 1,000 acres of open space is on the left
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30.1
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Paul
Newman lived in the house on the left at the corner of Coleytown Rd. and
North Av.
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www.ctbikeroutes.org
Ride
description: Wu-New032
Route
sheet: RS-New032
Ride
submitted by: Tom Ebersold, 8-28-06, (updated 5-13-12) Map
by Robert Schwab
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