Each year VBF sponsors the Cross-State Ride to raise awareness of US Bike Routes 1 and 76, and to promote bicycle-oriented tourism in Virginia. This year we’ll be riding Bike 76, from Breaks Interstate Park on the Kentucky border, to Chickahominy Riverfront Park in Yorktown. It will be a 2-week tour with sagged camping.
As always, you’re encouraged to join us for any portion of the tour. We especially like day riders to join us as we ride through your area. So check your bike club calendars, and try to schedule a ride-along ride for your club.
Though still in the early planning stages, the itinerary has been announced:
| Day | Date | Depart | Arrive |
| Thursday | 13-May | Breaks Interstate Park | |
| Friday | 14-May | Breaks Interstate Park | Elk Creek, Russell County |
| Saturday | 15-May | Elk Creek, Russell County | Damascus – Creeper Trail |
| Sunday | 16-May | Damascus – Creeper Trail | Hurricane NFS Camp – Hungry Mother State Park |
| Monday | 17-May | Hurricane NFS Camp – Hungry Mother State Park | Foster Falls State Park |
| Tuesday | 18-May | Foster Falls State Park | Claytor Lake State Park |
| Wednesday | 19-May | Claytor Lake State Park | Roanoke Valley |
| Thursday | 20-May | Roanoke Valley | Roanoke Valley |
| Friday | 21-May | Roanoke Valley | South River – Steels Tavern |
| Saturday | 22-May | South River – Steels Tavern | Sherando Lake NFS |
| Sunday | 23-May | Sherando Lake NFS | Charlottesville KOA |
| Monday | 24-May | Charlottesville KOA | Mineral Fire Department |
| Tuesday | 25-May | Mineral Fire Department | Richmond Area |
| Wednesday | 26-May | Richmond Area | Chicahominy Riverfront Park |
| Thursday | 27-May | Chicahominy Riverfront Park | Yorktown with return to Chicahominy Riverfront Park Optional |
| Friday | 28-May | Chicahominy Riverfront Park Base Camp |
For more information, contact Joe Morgan, jnmorgan@megahits.com or (804) 441-1646; or Barbara Duerk, barbgary@cox.net or (540) 343-1616.
We’ll update this page as more information becomes available, so keep checking back here.
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Please keep us updated on this. I’d love to get in on a leg of the ride close to Richmond, but I’ll surely forget about it without some reminders.
Thanks!
I’m interested in the Steeles Tavern to Charlottesville leg (it’s on the weekend). Maybe I can find some other weekend riders from HR who want to carpool out there?
Maybe me BC!!
Breaks Interstate Park to Richmond. Waiting for more information. Caracas, Venezuela.