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New England Fall Foliage Tours: Bike Tours

Cycle Through the Crunchy Leaves This Autumn

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Updated July 27, 2011
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:

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 Lake Champlain region bike tour with departures in both September and October that features the chance to take your bike on a ferry ride across the sixth largest natural lake in the U.S.

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

Easy Rider Tours
Easy Rider is offering two fabulous Autumn in the Berkshires biking tours this fall--from October 2 to 7 and from October 9 to 14. Stay in 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 2011 are October 8 to 15. The tour will also be offered October 13 to 20, 2012. 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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