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SCCC's Grand Apizza North 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: 15.3 miles Elevation Gain: 732 feet
Degree
of Difficulty Index: 732 ft /
15.3 mi = 47.84 ft/mi Terrain:
Rolling to hilly
Killer
Hills: None;
but there are several lengthy climbs (and some great down hills)
Geographical
Region: Southwest Connecticut
(dips into South Central)
Starting
Location (city/town): North
Haven
Starting
Location (detailed directions to):
From I-91 Exit 12 take Rt. 5 north for ~ 1.0 mile to Grand Apizza
North on the right. While
heading north on Rt. 5, if you reach the traffic light where Bradley St. goes
right, you have gone about 0.1 mile too far.
Ride
Description: This interesting
and moderately challenging short ride starts (and for the most part stays in
North Haven) but there are brief sorties into Wallingford, the Northford
section of North Branford and East Haven. After a flat beginning, there is a fairly difficult climb
up Pond Hill Road that is followed by a lengthy downhill to Rt. 150. Most of the ride route is on roads
that aren't heavily traveled (neighborhoods, country roads, etc.) but there
is some of the route that travels over state numbered routes where caution is
adviseable.
Facilities
and Points of Interest:
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Mile
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Facilities
- Points of Interest
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0.0
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Grand Apizza North
parking lot; various shops along busy Rt. 5
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1.5
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Pond Hill grade school on
the right
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9.1
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Large
cemetery dead ahead before turning left onto Velvet St
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15.3
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Grand Apizza North
parking lot; various shops along busy Rt. 5
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Note:
This ride has been provided by the Southern Connecticut Cycle Club
from its Ride Library (Ride #5) as a service to the Connecticut bicycling
community.
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www.ctbikeroutes.org
Ride
description: Wu-New096
Route
sheet: RS-New096
Ride
submitted by: SCCC
(www.ctcycle.org)/DPS, 4/15/07 (updated 4/21/07)
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