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The Stony
Creek Brewery 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: 41.9 miles Elevation Gain: 1494 feet (estd)
Degree
of Difficulty Index: 1494 ft / 41.9 mi = 35.66 ft/mi (estd) Terrain: Flat
to rolling
Killer
Hills: None
Geographical Region: South Central
Connecticut
Starting Location (city/town): Branford
Starting Location (detailed directions to): Stony
Creek Brewery parking lot @ 5 Indian Neck Avenue. Use I-95 Exit 54 (Cedar St); go south on Cedar for 0.25
miles and cross Rt. 1 @ traffic light; continue on Cedar for 0.47 mi to SS @
Main St; turn right on Main and go 0.15 mi.; turn left on Kirtland St and go
0.22 mi. and cross above RR tracks; becomes Maple street after RR track
crossing; in 0.11 mi. turn left @ TL on Indian Neck Ave; turn R in 0.19 mi.
into Stony Creek Brewery parking area to the right of the brewery.
Ride Description: This is a ride over
mostly mellow terrain with a few hilly (but short) sections mostly in north
Guilford. There is a variety of
viewsnot only of the Sound but also of woodlands and farming country. The ride visits the Monastery of Our Lady
of Grace in north Guilford before heading back to the shoreline while passing
through the center of Guilford and Guilford Green.
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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Stony
Creek Brewery
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1.2
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Lennys
– seafood restaurant
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1.3
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Start tour of Indian
Neck – lovely views of the Sound
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6.0
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Pine Orchard Country
Club
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17.6
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Views of Clear Lake (to
the right thru the trees)
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25.6
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Monastery of Our Lady of
Grace
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32.4
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Guilford Green
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41.9
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Stony
Creek Brewery
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www.ctbikeroutes.org
Ride
description: Wu-New227
Route
sheet: RS-New227
Ride
submitted by: Scott Baker,
10/11/15 (updated by DPS on 11/29/15)
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