C and O Biking Info

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Biking Info

Tips and Guides
- Your Guide to Bed, Breakfast and Biking B & B's and Inns along an amazing number of bike trails over much of the eastern half of the country - including the C & O Get Out & Go Tours LLC - offers fully supported C and O Canal Bike Tours
- C and O Biking Guide from the BikeWashington (formerly Urban ATB) Page
- C and O Bicycle and General Store - in Hancock
- Here is some C and O biking information.
- Gary's Tips for Biking the C and O
- Some tips for biking the C and O from Boy Scout Troop 90 in Forest Hills, PA
Trip Accounts: Stories of through bike trips and trail conditions:
(includes running and hiking accounts)
- Megan Hemmer's 2010 trip with her dog - from D.\C. to Pittsburgh and back
- Account from September 2009 by a woman who did a solo trip.
- 2008 account of Washington to Pittsburgh trip published in Adventure Cycling.
- Keith Lehman's 2007 Trip from Pittsburgh to D.C.
- Jerry W.'s @006 trip
- Kordite's accounts of riding the C and O and on to Pittsburgh.
- Skip Bowers' 5 Day Trip
- Ed Quigley rode from Pittsburgh to D.C. in the summer of 2004.
- Scott Coverdell made a round trip on the towpath in April 2001.
- Broken Claw's page on biking parts of the Canal.
- C and O portion - April 1-12 of the 2001 Trans-America Walk organized by the Japan Walking Association (Too bad - page is gone)
- The Yockatomac Trek Annual Ride of the C and O as well as the Allegheny.
- Scott Douglas's C&O Canal Run to Raise Money for the Roads Scholar Program in November 2000.
- Peyton's October 2002 Solo Self-Contained Run
- Walter Rissmeyer's Potomac Adventure - in the Spring of 1999. - Sadly, no longer online
- Doug Dupin's 1998 trip down the towpath by skateboard. And an article about it in the New York Times Magazine.
- June '99 Trip by the Oxon Hill Bicycle and Trail Club
- John and Carole Pescatore's 1999 Trip
- Gil Taylor's June 1999 Account of a Bicycling Excursion
- Dennis Bean-Larson and some friends rode the towpath in May of 1998.
- Tom has some pages about annual bike trips he's made with a group.
- Gary Mumma's September '97 Canal Trip - and his '95 trip.
- See Chapters 9 and 10 on Bill and Laurie Foot's 1997 ADT Journey Page to see the portion about the C and O Canal. (Not currently available - but is eventually supposed to be back on the NBATC website
- Clay Gump has a page about his 1994 C and O bike trip. (This is where the picture of Paw Paw Tunnel came from.)
- March '97 dc.biking Post by Allen Ruffin about Towpath Conditions
- If you want to read a very amusing story that took place along the Towpath, try to find a copy of the book Computing across America by Steve Roberts. It's in the chapter entitled "The C and O Towpath."
- Lamar Martin's Annual C&O and W&OD Bike Trip
- Gerrit de Wit's page about the Cumberland to Pittsburgh Bike Trail
- Trip Report, Washington DC to Pittsburgh, September 1997 Via C&O Canal Towpath, Allegheny Highlands Trail, and Yough River Trail - Mary Shaw, with Anne Marschik and Roy Weil
- Troop 111 High Adventure for 2000
- MisoCanalTrip
Bike Tour, Transport, and Shops
- Get Out and Go bike tours on the C and O and the Great Alleghany Passage.
- Mountainsidebikes has bike services in Cumberland.
- Grouseland Yours - 7 miles off I-70 - near Hancock
- From coTowpath email list - January 2006:
  "We offer vehicle or passenger shuttle services for the C&O Towpath and other trails." Charles Creek
  Freedom Trail Riders Delivery & Shuttle Services
  301-689-0345
- Norris House Inn - in Leesburg will shuttle from White's Ferry - Virginia side - to Leesburg
- Greyhound serves Cumberland. It's possible to box your bike and put it on the bus...
- Venture Outdoors Bike Tours

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