BIKATION 2025 - OHIO

A smart-guided 900-mile 24-day Long Oneway Loop (LOL) - Cleveland to Coolville and Ashtabula to Xenia; Lake Erie to Ohio River; Amish to urban communities; cities to rural countrysides - using 59 trails, the route is 40% bikeway with an average of 40 daily miles to electric overnight stays for both E and not-E bikes.

With smart-guided technology, you can ride at your own pace or pace with others. The expertly designed route takes you on an in-depth journey of the sights and sounds of Ohio at the speed of bike. Voice and map-guided instructions make it easy to stay on course and avoid getting lost as you discover tasty spots, popular landmarks, and hidden gems along the way.

Do it all or do it in parts. Do it in three weeks and three days or do it in a couple of days at a time. Do it with a group, or your crew, or do it solo - you get all of the 24 smart-guided daily route links with the instructions. Do it as a bike-camping adventure or do it with overnight stays at accommodations of your choice - the smart guide can easily be used to guide you to alternative overnight locations.

Long-distance bikeway-focused tours do not get much better than this. Found all along the way are Ohio cities, towns, communities, countrysides, lakes, rivers, parks, nicely designed bikeways, forests, historical places, attractions, amusements, and memory-making spots. Even a bit of West Virginia gets into the loop.

This adventure gets your wheels on 57 bikeways of Ohio's growing, award-winning cycling infrastructure, which leads the nation in dedicated bikeway miles. Except for the starting spot, you will rarely see the same thing twice on this Long One-way Loop (LOL). Easily add to the adventure by detouring to explore numerous points of interest (see the list below).

BIKATION 2025 - OHIO starts where it ends, near Scioto Audubon Dog Park. Bring your furry friend on tour, if you wish. The overnight stays and suggested restaurant stops are partly chosen for their dog-friendly policy.

The 900-mile smart-guided route is 40% bikeway and comes with CycleNuts' 50% downhill guarantee. Except for rail-to-trail segments, the route follows the lay of the land, which in many areas is hilly to mountainous. The climbs are smoothed out as much as possible to keep the inclines under 10%, but your bike's gears will still see use on most of the segments. Where bikeways are not available, bicycle-friendly roadways chosen by bike apps are used to connect the dots. 60% of the route is on roadways.

E-bikes are appropriate for this adventure. Daily 40-mile averages between overnight stays, where batteries can be recharged, fit in with ebike battery distance standards. The 40-mile daily average also makes this long-distance adventure comfortable for not-e bike riders capable of that distance daily.

A short list of cities, towns, and villages:

• Kent
• Niles
• Perry
• Elyria
• Xenia
• Akron
• Dover
• Burton
• Bolivar
• Clinton
• London
• Warren
• Oberlin
• Geneva
• Navarre
• Chardon
• Coolville
• Marietta
• Caldwell
• Ravenna
• Lore City
• Massillon
• Mansfield
• Mt Gilead
• Lakewood
• Ashtabula
• The Plains
• Cleveland
• Columbus
• Cedarville
• Painesville
• Greenwich
• Chillicothe
• Nelsonville
• Jamestown
• Austinburg
• Lake Milton
• Austintown
• Cambridge
• Middlefield
• Sugarcreek
• Senecaville
• Parkersburg
• Canal Fulton
• New London
• Newton Falls
• Chagrin Falls
• Fairview Park
• North Olmsted
• Shaker Heights
• Newcomerstown
• South Charleston
• Washington Court House

Points of interest:

• Lake Erie
• Ohio River
• Alum Creek
• Rocky River
• Grand River
• Scioto River
• Chagrin Falls
• Hocking Hills
• Hocking River
• Cuyahoga River
• Ohio State Parks
• Burton Wetlands
• Ohio & Erie Canal
• Muskingum River
• Tuscarawas River
• Ohio State Forests
• Amish communities
• Zaleski State Forest
• Appalachian Plateau
• Little Kanawha River
• Wayne National Forest
• Tar Hollow State Forest
• Appalachian Mountains
• Hopewell Mound Group
• Island Belle Sternwheeler
• Rocky River Valley Metro Park
• Cuyahoga Valley National Park
• Fowler Woods State Nature Preserve
• Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park

Bikeways:

1. River Trail
2. AC&Y Trail
3. Olentangy Trail
4. Zoar Valley Trail
5. Centennial Trail
6. Niles Greenway
7. Scioto Greenway
8. Darby Creek Trail
9. Prairie Grass Trail
10. Summit Lake Trail
11. Camp Chase Trail
12. Hilltop Connector
13. Newton Falls Trail
14. Robert's Pass Trail
15. Cable Line Rd Trail
16. Richland B&O Trail
17. Moonville Rail Trail
18. Lake-to-Lakes Trail​
19. Shaker Median Trail
20. Valley Parkway Trail
21. Great Guernsey Trail
22. Harrison Dillard Trail
23. Buckhorn Creek Trail​
24. Canal Park Walkways
25. Sippo Valley Bike Trail
26. Maple Highlands Trail​
27. Scenic Park Loop Trail​
28. Sawmill Parkway Trail
29. Olde Muskingum Trail
30. Mineral Lake Park Trail
31. Little Miami Scenic Trail
32. Lower Scioto Greenway
33. North Coast Inland Trail
34. Ohio to Erie Trail - OTET
35. Tri-County Triangle Trail
36. ​Great American Rail Trail
37. Centennial Lake Link Trail
38. Presidential Parkway Trail
39. Little Kanawha Connector
40. Garrett Wonders Bike Trail​
41. Lake Metro Park Green Way
42. Western Reserve Greenway
43. Parkersburg Ohio River Trail
44. Cleveland Lakefront Bikeway
45. Hockhocking Adena Bikeway
46. Paint Creek Recreational Trail
47. The Portage Bike and Hike Trail
48. The Portage Hike and Bike Trail
49. Whiskey Island Connector Trail
50. Mill Creek Metroparks Bikeway
51. Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail
52. Clinton-Fayette Friendship Trail
53. Xenia-Jamestown Connector Trail
54. Summit MetroParks Freedom Trail
55. North Olmsted Community Bikeway
56. Lake Metroparks Greenway Corridor
57. Maple Highlands Trail - North Section​
58. North Olmsted Walking and Bike Trail
59. Congressman Ralph Regula Towpath Trail

WHY CHOOSE A Semi-smart-guided Selfie Cycle Tour?

You get all the benefits of a guided tour without the drawbacks of a tour guide, other tourists, time restrictions, and a rigid tour agenda if you wish. With this semi-smart-guided tour, you can go when you want at your speed and hang out at a spot as long as you wish. You can even wander off the planned route. The smart guide will get you back on track when you are ready, and at the end of the day, join up with the tour group or not. Either way, you have the route at your fingertips.

HERE'S THE PLAN

You bring a bike and a smartphone. CycleNuts provides the tour guide and the smart-tour guide links! You will receive an expertly designed tour route via email. Click the emailed link and follow the Selfie Tour route using your smartphone as your smart-tour guide for the voice and map-guided turn-by-turn instructions, or just follow the tour guide.

SHORT INSTRUCTIONS

From your location, using your cell phone, click on the starting spot link and follow the Google Maps directions. When you arrive, follow the tour guide or click the emailed tour navigation links to begin the tour. The navigation links will be either Google Maps, Ride With GPS (RWGPS), or both. For more complex tours, there may be several links to click with additional instructions. With Google Maps, the navigator will prompt you at each checkpoint to continue navigation.

REGISTER NOW AND RIDE WHENEVER AND FOREVER

The route links do not expire. Register now and plan your adventure - invite your favorite peeps or ride solo; make overnight accommodation reservations; reserve a sitter for your pets. Many tours include dog-friendly tasty spots, as noted in the tour instructions. Here are two CycleNuts-tested and approved sites for pet owners: Bring Fido for those touring with dogs, and Rover for those needing pet sitters. CycleNuts Smart-guided Selfie Tours provide self-supported tour directions, smart-guided route links, and instructions. Attractions, lodgings, food, SAG, recovery, bike rental, repairs, etc., are not included.

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