Cleveland Emerald Necklace Bikeway Loop - Smartguided Overnight or Day Tour

Experience this natural greenway gem in Cleveland, Ohio by bike!

This tour has all the bells and whistles you have come to expect with a CycleNuts Selfie Tour - bikeway focused, tested, and approved tasty spots, points of interest along the way, and very sensible options for both long and short distance riders.

Adventure through Cuyahoga Valley National Park (the only National Park in Ohio);

along the shores of Lake Erie and the banks of Rocky River, Cuyahoga River, and the Ohio Erie Canal;

through upscale lakefront mansion neighborhoods, downtown residential warehouse district neighborhoods, and quiet suburban neighborhoods;

to a couple of trailside history/nature centers (Canal Exploration Center, Rocky River Nature Center), Towpath Mounds (a unique undefined trailside mound), the historic Cleveland Coastguard Station (a spectacular lakefront observation point), and four CycleNuts tasted and approved tasty spots;

through the Cleveland East Flats entertainment district, and Cleveland Public Square;

to Wallace Lake Beach, the banks of the Rocky River, Edgewater Beach on the shore of Lake Erie (bring your swim wear!), the start/ending spot marker of the Ohio-to-Erie Trail, and three Cleveland Script Signs (bring a camera - this is a selfie tour... right?).

The Smart-guided 70-mile route is 74% bikeway and comes with CycleNuts' 50% downhill guarantee. The segments that are not bikeway are predominantly low traffic and Google bicycle-approved roadways. If you are more comfortable using sidewalks in these areas, then you will find most of the roadway segments have sidewalks along the way.

Look at this impressive list of eleven bikeways your wheels will roll on:

Big Creek Trail

Centennial Trail

Ohio to Erie Trail

Lake to Lake Trail

Lakefront Bikeway

Valley Parkway Trail

Woodland Loop Trail

Six Mile Flats Loop Trail

The Lower 40 Loop Trail

Whiskey Island Connector Trail

Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail

The route follows the topography of Cleveland, which straddles two river valleys - the Cuyahoga River and Rocky River. There are segments where you will use your deepest bike gear or be bike-hiking (no shame in that - it is a pro tactic often used to save the legs/energy reserves). Sweating is optional, but probably unavoidable - Cleveland is surrounded/ribboned with bodies of water. Nevertheless, this is a Selfie Tour, and you will set your own pace, starting time, and touring agenda with CycleNuts' expert Smart-guided cycle tour pattern.

This is a perfect weekend destination adventure! If doing the tour as an overnight 2-day tour, see the instructions included in your ticket purchase for free overnight parking of your vehicle at the starting spot. Also, the overnight stay hotel suggestion in the route directions is CycleNuts approved based on zero-bedbug complaints. The cost of the overnight stay is not included in the tour ticket.

Easily, with the Smart-guide, you can wander away from the planned route to explore areas and points of interest that you find along the way. The Smart-guide will get you back on the route when you are ready.

You can invite as many people as you want on your tour. 1 tour ticket = fun for everyone!

Ride it as a 1-day metric century or get your travelling bags on and ride it as an Overnight Tour (OT) with a sweet midway overnight destination stop. Your choice - both options included.

CycleNuts Selfie Tours tie together fun, interesting, scenic, historic, tasty, and refreshing points of interest along a bikeway focused tour route where you ride at your pace and your pleasure. You are the tour boss. You pick the date and time - the ticket is good for any day or time - dates/times listed only as a guideline to give you an idea of how long the tour normally takes.

With these smart-guided bikeway cycling adventures you bring the bike and smart phone, and CycleNuts provides the Smart Guide. The Smart Guide gives you voice and visual turn-by-turn instructions along an expertly designed and tested tour route.

Do the tour solo or bring along your crew. 1 ticket = fun for all! Easily stop anywhere along the way to visit attractions or refreshments and the Smart Guide will continue the route from wherever you are when you are ready to roll.

HERE'S THE PLAN: You bring the bike and smart phone. CycleNuts provides the Smart-tour guide! Via email you receive an expertly designed and tested tour route. Simply click on the emailed link and follow the expertly designed Selfie Tour route using your smart phone as your personal smart-tour guide for the Voice and Map guided turn-by-turn instructions.

From your location simply click on link 1 provided by CycleNuts (using your cell phone) and follow the Google Maps directions to the starting spot;

Unload your bike (if you transported it to the starting spot), or if you rode your bike to the starting spot then you are good to go;

And then click on link 2 provided by CycleNuts and begin the tour (for more complex tours there may also be a link 3 or 4 to click on along the way as well as additional instructions).

WHERE TO RENT A BIKE: There are rental options in the Cleveland area listed with your tour ticket.

ARE YOU READY TO ROLL? GREAT... LET'S HIT THE TRAILS!

GET YOUR TICKET TODAY! - take note that the tour starting and ending times on the ticket are only a general guideline to give you an idea of how much time the tour may take at the minimum. Your time in the saddle, on the trail, and starting times are your call - it is your tour. One ticket equals fun for all! Bring as many people as you wish on your tour. Ticket purchase is for the CycleNuts Selfie Smart-guided route only. Attractions, lodgings, food, bike rental, etcetera are not included in the ticket purchase.

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CycleNuts Emerald Necklace Bikeway Loop Tour, 7900 Old Rockside Rd, Independence, United States