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| Scenic Biking Loops from Berea |
| Avid Berea cylists Bill Stolte, Roger
Jones and others have developed a series of bicycling loops
along country roads in and around Berea. To contribute your favorite
biking route, e-mail Madison
County Greenways & Trails Inc. |
| The most basic local loop. Menelaus Road
is classic country riding. Mayde Road brings you back through
Berea’s industrial heartland. The Kentucky Artisan Center
is right before you as Mayde Road joins KY 595 and the Beebe-White
Bike Trail The Artisan Center a wonderful place to visit and
to eat a fine meal. (Try a catfish sandwich). |
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| A very popular local loop, good in either
direction. If you are riding counter-clockwise, Peggy Flats will
climb to a ridge and porpoise down to KY 595 which will return
past the Artisan Center. |
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| A gently undulating loop in either direction. A nostalgia ride for those locals who remember Lackey’s Airport, a grass airstrip/community gathering place from 1935 until its sale in 2004. Riding clockwise, you cross over, then back under I-75 on Menelaus Road and wind along the creek. Cross the railroad tracks, up the hill, and at the highest point on the right is the site of the old airport (marked Berea-Richmond Airport on old county maps)–a big white farmhouse with a hangar to its left. Picture 35 airplanes tied down, facing into the field. Be careful and watch for traffic on the short stretch of US 25 to the next right turn on KY 495. There are wonderful chicken salad sandwiches and pies to be had at the Shell station in Kingston on KY 21. |
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| A lovely loop in either direction, but a
little easier clockwise. A scenic creek stretch along the bottom
of Moran Summit Road is followed (if you’re going
clockwise) by a brief uphill, a downhill to a sharp, shielded, right turn and
then an avenue to a fine, old farmhouse. Watch for peacocks in the yard. Watch
also for the historic estate where Caleast intersects, past Peytontown. At steep,
curving, but short stretch follows, but is paid back by a long, lovely downhill. |
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