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Waterbury, VT Area
Hi,
I'll be staying at a B & B here next month. I'm trying to plan out some routes and while the side roads look good, they also look like a maze to me. I don't use a GPS and rely on just printed maps still. (I know I'm a dinosaur).
The place is very near route 100. I tried to get a look at it from satellite view but it's hard to tell how good the shoulder is. Does anyone have experience with riding on it?
I still may attempt to plan a side road route. I'll be staying on Guptil Road and was trying to map a route over to Barnes Hill Road. It just looks very confusing for someone who have never been there.
Any tips? Thanks.
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There can be lots of cars but generally 100 is very good.
Use street view, not satellite view.
For example just North of Waterbury on the say to Stowe: https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4021...7i13312!8i6656
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 Originally Posted by Jay Strongbow
Thanks. At least I’ll know route 100 is an option if I can’t do the side roads. Hopefully, route 100 doesn’t miss most of the good hills!
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May be worth checking out the old Stowe Road Race loop. Makes me think of those once dominant Stowe-Shimano teams of long ago.
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Thanks for the input. I ended up doing the two rides I’ve linked to below. I enjoyed both.
The first had way more traffic as it hit 100 and 15 up past Johnson, VT. The best part was Stagecoach between the two. The pavement was great and there was little traffic. It also had the highest grade at over 11%. I hit 49MPH on the return and that was straight into the wind. The only really lousy part was going through Stowe because there was construction going on. Parts of the road were downright dangerous due to the traffic and bad pavement.
The other ride was 62 miles and almost all of it was quiet. It had a total of 8 miles of gravel but it was in pretty good shape.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/30607872
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/30608000
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