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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI rode a loop around the larger part of the reservoir, and then exited at a different point than where I’d entered, and headed south into the city of West Springfield. Soon after passing the city line, I turned west and rode to the end (as far as cars are concerned) of Prospect Rd. There was a gate that I rode around, and then I followed the older portion of the road that was dirt and gravel (and not often traveled by cars). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I passed a few people walking with dogs, but did not see many others using the path. There were some wetlands at points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The road was pavement again here, albeit narrow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eventually the road narrowed to a plain dirt path through the woods, and then came out by some railroad tracks. Another cyclist had passed me shortly before I got to the tracks, and I followed him walking my bike along the tracks. At this point I could see the Mass Pike (i.e. the Massachusetts Turnpike) where the tracks passed under it, and I knew that I’d be able to get back onto a road near that rail underpass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sure enough, just before the Pike, another bit of trail took me back onto a piece of paved road, which I was familiar with from a hike years ago<\/a>. I rode that street to its end at a more major road, which was at this point in the city of Westfield. I rode south and west on familiar streets to downtown Westfield, and visited the esplanade there which I’d first gotten a look at last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It looks much the same – here is the bike\/pedestrian bridge over the Westfield River:<\/p>\n\n\n\n And the view up river:<\/p>\n\n\n\n And yours truly with the bridge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n From there, I went north and west a bit, before turning back east to ride back to Holyoke. Because it was a long weekend, I went for another ride 2 days later. Details on that in the next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my first significant bike rides this year was on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. I had found what looked like an old, possibly unused, road when looking at maps online, and decided to ride down and follow it. First I headed west to the Ashley Reservoir in Holyoke, and rode the paths … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3051,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n