Originally Posted By: BranShea
Just! That kind of roads. Some nice pictures there! The Minute Bike Path. This connects to a letter that came in today (link) from a pianist friend, announcing the fundraising acts for the celebration of the 100th birthday of Alan Hovhaness.(2011)

memorial run
His pilgrimage to Mount Monadnock will start on Saturday, May 2, crossing the New Hampshire border to Massachusetts along highways 124, 119, 225. The final miles in Massachusetts will be run on the Minuteman Bike Path from Bedford, through Lexington, and to the Hovhaness family home at 5 Blossom Street in Arlington. Arrival at Blossom Street is planned for 4:00 PM, Wednesday, May 13. He gives concerts in places along the way.

I know Lexington from the bus ride New York- Great Barrington where I used to stay. In fact you can walk and bike there.
In California I find it hard to find good walking/biking roads.



A resource for such roads might be county plat books. Having grown up in Randolph County, Illinois, I know of several rural roads, most of which are black-topped today, that once were trails that date to the early French and English colonial days. One mentioned previously, the Shawneetown Trail goes from Shawneetown on the Ohio River to Fort Kaskaskia/Fort Gage on the Mississippi. There is an ironic historical link between the two terminals as well as the geographical. Kaskaskia was one of the earliest French settlements in southern Illinois, while Shawneetown was one of the earliest English/American.