Plan Your Bike Ride to Include the Scenic Family Farms of South Windsor's Neighbors to the North

Spring and summer are the best times to be cycling alongside the scenic family farms of East Windsor, Ellington and Somers.  Spring brings the planting of corn and tobacco.  By the time summer is in full swing, the corn is so high that it’s impossible to see over it.  The smell of cows and barns wafts over cyclists on roads that are mostly rolling with the occasional long downhill (or up if you’re riding in the other direction).  This season while biking I’ve seen deer, coyotes, lots of rabbits, hawks, turtles, a turkey vulture, wild turkeys and some squashed frogs.

Here’s a favorite ride of mine leaving from South Windsor: Neiderwerfer Road (slow down at the farm and for the stop at the bottom of the hill); left on Rockville Road; right on Wapping and quick left on Windsorsville; straight into downtown East Windsor onto Main; take a right onto Depot (the pond is on your left); left at East Road; at the end make a right onto Reeves; then left on Kreyssig up the winding hill; right on Broad Brook; right on Fletcher; Fletcher turns in Maple then right on Pinney; left on Bllings; right on Egypt; Egypt is a nice ride as it becomes Hoffman then Meadow Brook; left on Jobs Hill, to Pinney, through the rotary at Cumberland Farms (be careful); then Skinner Road to Dart Hill.

If you watched any part of the Tour de France, you saw beautiful and breathtaking views of Switzerland, Italy and France.  The Tour of California has similar beautiful cycling scenics from California and the Pacific coast.  But we have some of the most beautiful countryside right here in Connecticut.  It’s not sweeping vistas of the Swiss Alps, but you can enjoy the rustle of corn stalks and the smell from tobacco plants as you ride down pretty rolling roads alongside the occasional family farm.  There are plenty of lshort, long and in-the-middle local bike rides.  If you need some help getting started you might want to contact the South Windsor Walk and Wheel Ways at swwandww@cox.net.  Happy cycling!