Bicycling in Albany county

 
Bike Hudson Valley, New York
Ken Roberts and Sharon Marsh Roberts
  

what's here

• Routes for bicycling
• Taxi services 
• more

see also

• Map -- overview of routes | map of River routes
• West side of the Hudson routes |list of River routes

• main Routes page for Bike Hudson Valley
• routes by Difficulty category
   

Routes for bicycling

• Rip Van Winkle Bridge to Albany, loop on both sides of the Hudson river -- 74 miles, moderate hills, from Catskill and Hudson to the Dunn Memorial Bridge between Albany + Rennselaer.  Lots of sweeping views across beautiful farm country, a variety of angles on the Catskill mountains and the Hudson River, and the new and old buildings of Albany.  [ Details | Map | GPS | Cue sheet ] 
   

see also

• Reports on riding north of Albany
• Hudson River rides north of Albany

 
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Taxi services

Calling a taxi services can be very helpful for bicycling: 

• when your bicycle gets messed up bad enough so you cannot ride it -- or weather turns real bad -- and you still need to get home or back to your car.
• to get to and from train stations.
• to set up one-way tours.

It's usually easier to call a taxi if you have some phone numbers of taxi services in the area you're riding. A way to get a list is to do a search for "taxi" on a directory of business phone numbers such as Superpages.com -- Here's some towns and cities in this county on which might be helpful to search:

Albany (in New York state)

Here's some taxi services we found in phone directories around 2003:

• Capitaland Taxi -- Albany NY

• Advantage Automotive -- Albany

• Albany Yellow Cab -- Albany

• Checker Cab -- Albany

• Duffy's Taxi -- Albany, NY

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regions: Albany county

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