anyone know any good routes or roads that are good for long rides around the va beach area?

 

go on googlemaps, their satellite shit is tight

 

just go down into pungo and explore

 

pm me, and i'll give you a nice route. it's my normal ride on the weekends. only 2 miles on "normal" roads. all the rest is back roads. some of the older locals may know the route, as i used to lead ALOT of rides around the area. it's no mountain pass, buit it's as good as you're gonna get in tidewater.

 

What is the area acorss from Hampton over James River Bridge called? Have anyone ever rode over there before? It seems like there are country roads over there. Anyone know any good routes over there?

 

there's a really easy and relaxing route that goes out to the colonial parkway, down the parkway, hop the jamestown ferry, keep following the road, and then you eventually end up on the smithfield side of the james river bridge. If you follow the signs for newport news its easy. If you get lost then its no big deal because there's lots of nice country side to ride around in


another super easy route that is similar is to take the colonial parkway to the end by the museum and then pick up route 5 and it takes you all the way to the southside of richmond by all the old factories and grap a bite to eat at one of the restaurants there before heading back. Nice open 55mph roads in the country which are perfect for a newbie or someone who is just looking to go out for a cruise with minimal stops. Thats probably about a 3+ hour round trip

 

I was searching on Google Earth and couldnt find the Colonial Parkway. Is this the Colonial Historic Parkway?
By the way, I am located in Hampton.
I see that Colonial Historic parkway is a nice route though. Is this what you are talking about? This is in Newport news or Williamsburg though.
Or are you talking about routes in Smithfield? Please enlighten me.
Thanks.
-Roop

 

yes the colonial historic parkway ,is the same thing.Just go all the way down 17 until you get to the coleman bridge turn left right before the bridge then turn left agian at the end of the road the follow the parkway signs ,ride the parkway to jamestown follow the ferry signs ,take the ferry follow that road out to route 10 to follow the signs to nn hit the jrb and you are back in nn sweet ride out on 10 lots of long sweepers, usually clean roads ,no traffic ,not very much presence of the man ,beautiful ..

 

the 2 routes I listed use the parkway as part of a larger loop like the hampton-jamestown-smithfield-hampton route adds to it. BTW in that route the road you're supposed to follow is route 10 from the ferry to Hampton

 

I've seen a lot of the man on occasions there so I make sure to keep it less than 15 mph over. BTW at night you have to watch out for deer because they're all over the place at times