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Longest paved bike trail

6/25/2011

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It's not the longest paved trail, but Chicago's Lakefront Bike Path is a favorite for many reasons.
An update on my post about the longest paved bike trail or path for inline skating in the US.   This is always difficult because the criteria can be managed so that a trail is “the longest” by including connections or out-and-back routing or other.   Perhaps the longest is in Minnesota, which has many excellent trails, as noted by MN Trails' website.    If I had to say which paved trail is the longest at this point, I’d say the Paul Bunyan trail   (or see here for up-to-date distances) because it has a continuous, point-to-point distance of what will be 120 miles…but the exception is 2 miles of on-road connections in Bemidji means that right now it’s 105 continuous miles or with the connection 114 miles.  I like the inline skater on the first page of its website, so it gets a nod in part for that. 
  
The Lake Wobegon trail with the Central Lakes trail lists 103.7 miles of continuous point-to-point trail    All these trails have spurs and connections, perhaps the longest “network” of paved trails is in Ohio  (the Miami Valley rail trails) with a total of 339 miles of trails, many of which are connected in a spidery web. 

Have an idea about a "longer" trail?  Send this blog a comment.  
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