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If you love cruising along country roads, riding through farmland and forest, observing wildlife and enjoying local recreational opportunities, you will be ecstatic about exploring the Delaware River Region. This area encompasses the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area on the New Jersey/Pennsylvania border, and includes all the territory north through the upper Delaware National Scenic and Recreation River Area to Hancock, New York.
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When you ride this region and its surrounding environs, you will be rewarded with hundreds of miles of backcountry roads to explore along with trails to hike, historic sites to see, waterfalls to view and the opportunity to canoe, raft, kayak, swim and camp. The region abounds with wildlife-it is not uncommon to see deer, hawks, bald eagles and bears.
Starting from the north and riding south through western New Jersey to the Gap adds to the scenic splendor of this spectacular ride. I rode west across the borderlands of New Jersey and New York to the junction of Routes 23 and 519. I sailed over serpentine roads on my Honda Shadow Spirit, passing farmland, forests and the rolling mountains of western New Jersey. It was a clear day, and the lush greenery scented the air like a flower garden after a spring rain.
This is a ride for all seasons, and indeed I have done sections of the trip in all four. This trip I was making the entire enchilada. Staying focused while riding on the curvaceous roads rather than on the scenery is challenging. Almost every bend offers an interesting sight. The Space Farm Zoo...
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