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New England Fall Foliage Tours: Bike Tours
Cycle Through the Crunchy Leaves This Autumn

By Kim Knox Beckius, About.com

Jul 28 2009
Want to pedal through crunchy leaves, feeling the crisp, fresh air in your face and exploring New England's winding roads spotted with the yellows, reds and oranges of autumn? Here are some biking tour suppliers that can show you the way:

Back Country Excursions
This Maine mountain biking adventure company offers several great fall events for cycling enthusiasts, including several weekend fall foliage festivals and a biking tour of graveyards and haunted houses.

Bike the Whites
This tour company offers three-day, inn-to-inn bicycle tours along New Hampshire's scenic backroads. Bike tour packages, available through November 2, include lodging, dining, maps, luggage transfer, roadside assistance, bike storage and a complimentary water bottle.

Bike Vermont
Bike Vermont has a variety of biking tour itineraries available this fall, whether you're looking for a quick, two-night getaway or a longer trip. There's even a six-day Heart of Vermont bike tour with departures in both September and October that combines rural cycling with stays in Vermont's most happening cities.

Country Inns Along the Trail
This tour company designs self-guided, inn-to-inn mountain biking tours in Vermont.

Easy Rider Tours
Easy Rider is offering two fabulous Autumn in the Berkshires biking tours this fall--from October 4 to 9 and from October 11 to 16. Stay in three fabulous country inns and explore all of western Massachusetts' best-loved sights.

Escape Routes
Escape Routes, based at the Casa Bella Inn in Pittsfield, Vermont, offers self-guided mountain biking tours on hundreds of miles of trails.

The Fall Foliage Classic
Join America by Bicycle for this 314-mile ride through brilliant fall scenery in three New England states--Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The dates for 2009 are October 10 to 17. The tour will also be offered October 9 to 16, 2010. For information, call 603-382-1662 or toll free, 888-797-7057.

Country Inn Weekend
From GORP, here's a fall biking trek that takes you through classic Vermont villages and includes lodging at a wonderful country inn. Departures are available in September.

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