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Riding the Catskills is a cycling-route blog focused on the Catskills, Hudson Valley, and surrounding counties in New York State, with particular coverage of Ulster, Dutchess, Greene, Delaware, Orange, Rockland, and nearby areas. It is not a commercial travel site, but an experience-driven content site maintained by local and related cyclists. Its core goal is to encourage riders in the New York metro area to move beyond the usual routes and explore quieter, more scenic, and more challenging rural roads and gravel routes.
The site mainly offers ride reports, route recommendations, road-condition notes, and transport connection advice. The articles mention a full route library that can be viewed directly, and routes are also filtered with categories such as “worth the trip” for rides that merit a dedicated visit. The content is especially friendly to gravel cyclists, with notes on routes that include longer gravel sections, rough surfaces, and requirements around bike-handling skills and tire width. It also provides practical advice for taking Metro-North from New York City to places such as Poughkeepsie, including bicycle permits, how to secure bikes on the train, and where to park.
The site does not show any paid routes, memberships, or commercial services. It is a free-to-browse personal/community blog. The pages also state that there is no commercial or personal agenda, and encourage users to share photos, write-ups, and self-made routes after riding, helping build a shared resource.
Its strengths are authentic content, strong regional focus, and a high density of practical experience, making it especially useful for cyclists looking for gravel roads and scenic road rides around New York. The author’s notes on road surfaces, tires, seasons, and transport options are more grounded in real cycling needs than typical travel guides. The downside is that the site has the structure of an older WordPress-style blog, so route search, map display, and update status are not as polished as dedicated route platforms. Some posts are also older, so actual road conditions, train rules, and parking information should still be checked before a trip.
It is best suited to road cyclists, gravel riders, randonneurs, and long-distance cycling enthusiasts in New York City, Brooklyn, the Hudson Valley, and around the Catskills. If you want to plan a weekend ride starting with a train from New York, or are looking for routes with more variety than 9W or Bear Mountain, this site is a useful reference.
The site appears to be hosted in a WordPress.com blog format, and the articles do not show mandatory login requirements or regional restrictions. Users in mainland China can generally try accessing it directly, but if pages embed external maps, social-sharing widgets, or route-platform links, those components may not load completely.
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