We are establishing a bike trail that hugs the river and crosses it on every road bridge possible.
The bike trail includes nice sections on the Farmington Canal Greenway and quiet back roads.
The total length is 25 miles and the CTtransit #229 bus is a good way to get back to your starting point in either New Haven or Cheshire. (Two bikes are easily carried in the rack on the front of the bus at no additional charge.)
A kml file of the route can be downloaded and used with Google Maps.
Download and unzip the kml file. It should then open in Google Earth.
Or convert into a route for use in Google Maps on your smart phone.
Use the directions downloadable below.
Mill Bike Rte - Canal Way (zip)
DownloadA short document describing how to turn a kml file on your computer into a Google Maps route on your mobile phone.
How to turn a kml files into a route in Google Maps (pdf)
DownloadThe bike trail follows the Farmington Canal Greenway over part of its length. Download a kml file of the trail above.