My suite of pages about the Franconia Notch State Park Multi-Use Trail in New Hampshire now includes a video of a ride on the Trail.
The most comprehensive treatment of the conditions of the trail is in the linked photo tour. The video is also intended to document conditions on the trail rather than to be entertaining. But it gets interesting at (also hotlinked in the YouTube description — click “see more”)
0:30 — Hazardous bollards with substandard spacing
4:35 — the Chute
17:15 — Tunnel under the highway
19:25 — Deadly curb with tire marks and scrapes
21:33 Another steep downhill and underpass
21:50 Path becomes sidewalk in door zone
26:55 28:30 — Lafayette campground, bicyclists instructed to ride on left.
33:20 — Another underpass with bollard and blind corner
43:09-end — odd termination at parking lot at south end, entry from Route 3 is unmarked and requires crossing to left side of parking lot exit.
This is a standard-definition video which I shot with my first helmet camera. I have deinterlaced it, raising it to 60 frames per second, and stabilized it so the quality is quite acceptable. I’d like to go back and see what changes have occurred over the past 13 years. Or if anyone else is riding thorough there with a helmet cam…
I did “The Kanc” and that bike path in 2007 and again in 2014 as part of a 2 week tour leaving from Newark Delaware. I thought it was great, tho’ admittedly far from perfect. Kudos for taking the time to more closely scrutinize it. State Parks are notoriously bad for infra design, IMO. Delaware, and in particular New Castle County, doesn’t even use bollards – they typically cordon off trails and pathways with full across hanging cables or gates, forcing users into the woods to circumvent. It’s so bad that I will diverge with you in that I do actually advocate for bollards as long as they’re bright red, thick and tall (visible) and spaced correctly. Despite the use of gates and cables, though, LAB still ranks DE as a top 5 bicycle-friendly state. I posted on it here: https://www.1stbikes.org/2014/09/nccs-choice-of-gates-over-bollards-is.html
I cannot link to this video
Fixed. Thanks.