New Castle, Pennsylvania - Stavich Bike Trail - Smart-guided Cycle Tour, CycleNuts Selfie Cycling Tour in New Castle, PA

If you want a bike trail that is unique, historical, Americana, and might give your climbing gears a workout, then this is the tour for you!
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Experience the Stavich Bike Trail - Ohio/Pennsylvania

CycleNuts Selfie Cycling Tours

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 - ticket is good for any day or time - dates/times listed only as a guideline to give you an idea of how long 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.

Some trails you just have to experience because they are there. The Stavich Bike Trail straddling the Ohio/Pennsylvania border is one such trail. It is unique in that it is one of the few bikeways in America that crosses state borders but keeps its name from end to end. It is also unique in that it is a rail-to-trail bikeway, but not on a train rail. Instead, it is built on a former electric trolley car rail. It is historical as "an early example for rail-trails and is still somewhat uncommon, as it connects two states" and "was one of 23 National Recreation Trails designated by the U.S. Department of the Interior in 2003, celebrating “Healthy Trails, Healthy People.” The scenery is that of small town Americana as the bikeway passes through small towns and wooded hilly countryside, running most of the way nearby a working railroad. At times the Stavich Bike Trail rises above the railway, and other times below, as it follows the railbed of the former Penn-Ohio Electric System with electric trolley cars that took the hilly terrain with ease.

This 20 mile smart-guided route is 92% bikeway and comes with CycleNuts' 50% downhill guarantee. The bikeway is a dedicated paved trail except for a short segment sharing the road through a small town. It is a rail-to-trail bikeway, but the former railbed was that of an electric trolley service following the rolling topography of the land. All bikes may not be appropriate for this smart-guided tour - the trail surface is reportedly rough on skinny tires (I experienced no trouble with my loaded touring bike) and the hilly topography might make a hard ride for a single speed bike. Bring your bike or rent one near the starting spot (see confirmation information for listings). Sweating is optional. You set your own pace, starting time and touring agenda with CycleNuts' expert smart-guided cycle tour pattern.

Points of interest: Stavich Bike Trail, Mahoning River, Lowellville, and a CycleNuts tested and approved optional tasty spot The Station Grille at Melillo’s.

HERE'S THE PLAN: You bring the bike. 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: See your ticket purchase confirmation information for local bike rental listings.

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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