![]() ![]() If you want an even better-maintained trail with almost no traffic, the Route 66 trail is just an hour north of here and has perfectly paved asphalt in much better condition. Go to one of those trails if you want to see interesting sights. Even if the Butler-Freeport trail were empty, the trail itself was average, in good condition but with no major sights along the way as the GAP, D&L, or Pine Creek trails have. There are other better trails to spend your time at. At those other trails people instead often stopped to chat or offered to help when I got a flat tire. I wore the same clothes and used the same bike as I had at other trails, and I've never had that response before. When I passed two groups, they yelled, and one group took it upon themselves to ride in the middle of the trail and hold up a line of people trying to pass. When I stopped to take pictures of the trail for reviews, as I do along all the trails I visit, people stared at me suspiciously. Perhaps they also were frustrated by the traffic but could not control their emotions, or maybe crime is rampant in the area. I've never reviewed the people along a trail, but I found it odd that many of the people using this trail were very rude. ![]() Every time this happened, I or even a line of people would be forced to slow or stop until they moved into a line. The trail is not marked with a centerline or with signs directing people to stay right, and it was extremely frustrating how many people were ignorant of the traffic and would walk or ride abreast. Top ATV Trails Near Me Snow Shoe Rail Trail Pennsylvania - 18.5 miles Ballast, Gravel Oswego County Trail New York - 28 miles Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt Sugar River Trail New Hampshire - 9.5 miles Ballast, Gravel, Sand Warren to East Haverhill Railroad Grade Trail New Hampshire - 10. The parking lots at both ends of the trail were full, and cars with bike racks extended around the city blocks near the entrances. located near reels corner, pennsylvania in eastern somerset county. I've never seen so much traffic on a bike trail as on the Butler-Freeport trail I passed or was passed 50 times while riding this trail, and probably came across 500 people. 150 miles of trails and 40 miles of single track. I've spent the past four years or so trying to visit every trail of 15+ miles in Pennsylvania, and this trail was unfortunately the worst, primarily because the extreme traffic.
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