Mark you calendar for Mid-Hudson Bicycle Club’s twelfth annual Bicycle Camp weekend. It’s an inexpensive mini-vacation exploring the Hamilton area and relaxing with fellow cyclists. Hamilton is home to Colgate University, near the geographical center of New York State, one hundred, twenty miles north west of Ulster County. You can choose a two or three night package that includes two or four meals (breakfast and dinner) at Colgate’s beautiful campus.
It is called Bicycle Camp because groups staying at Colgate in the summer are generally specialty sport and music camps. Bicycle Camp is an opportunity to enjoy rural bicycling of any distance you choose from many cued routes. Most riders will choose a short or long ride recommended on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The bicycling around Hamilton is full of farm roads with little traffic through hills and flat valley roads.
Most campers come from the Mid-Hudson, Mohawk, Southern Tier, Rochester or Orange bicycle clubs. You’ll enjoy meeting fellow bicycling enthusiast, relax in the dormitory lounge or visit the quaint village of Hamilton. We’ll share the campus with young musicians who perform in the evening and sometimes at the dining hall. Colgate’s hill campus overlooks Hamilton about one mile from the village center and is beautiful and has nearby woods foot trails for walking and running. Hamilton always seems to have events happening in the summer. There are more restaurants and bars than in the past. We suggest you do an internet search for Hamilton, Central New York, Colgate University and Madison County to see what’s happening in July.
For the truly adventuresome, Geri and Brian will also lead a group overnight to Auburn in the Finger Lake area from Hamilton on July 7. This one hundred forth mile ride (seventy miles each way) through the hills of Central New York was a huge amount of fun last year. Last year, we loved eating at a nice family Italian restaurant near the Super 8 motel. Let us know if you’re interested in this ride.
We hope you’ll consider Bicycle Camp. You’re the reason for Bicycle Camp.Colgate Weekend 2010 Reservation Form