Lake Nockamixon

Although my vacation was great it feels good to be back on the bike again. I was planning to do the Suburban Cyclist Lake Nockamixon ride last weekend but decided against it because of the approaching hurricane. I managed to get out during the week for a couple of short rides but finally got back on the road again this Labor Day weekend and did some longer rides.

On Saturday Laura, Cheryl, Jeff and I joined me as I explored and mapped out my Lake Nockamixon ride. We started from Peace Valley on the other side of Doylestown and made it to Lake Nockamixon and back. I pasted the route together from the cue sheets from previous Lake Noxkamixon rides and some guesses after looking through Google Maps. Although I planned a 52 mile ride it ended up at 58 mostly because we put some extra miles exploring the actual park around the lake.

Nockamixon State Park is a hidden gem of a park. Not only does it have a large 7 mile long lake with a real marina but also has a swimming pool with a couple of slides and lots of place to picnic, hike, bike and ride horses. It even has some cabins you can rent. We spent a little time by the lake watching all the sail boats then made a quick stop by the pool and snack bar before heading back out on the roads. You can see my pictures from the lake HERE

There is some strange stuff on the roads around lake. On Clymer road it started out with a bunch of houses where every house had a motorcycle and guy with long hair and beard (Hell's Angle Hideout?). Pass that there was a place called Rock Ridge(after the town in Blazing Saddles?) that looked like a retirement home. Next to that was a couple of wellness centers where I'm sure homeopathic witch doctors try and milk the old people in the retirement home out of their money. Then just down road from that a big white building with large columns that looked like a greek temple. All in all a strange road.

When we got around the south side of the lake we saw a bunch of cars off the side of the road and wondered what they were looking at, then we saw it. It was the dam and spillway that forms the lake. The spillway is like a terraced waterfall. We stopped for some pictures then moved made our way back home.

We ended up going through the town of Perkasie where the downtown area streets are layed out and named exactly the same as downtown Philly. Laura was calling out the name before we got to each street. The last few miles were slighly uphill and we were getting tired but made it back in decent shape.

Although I had not been on 80% of the road we did ,this turned out to be a good route that we all enjoyed so I will definately be doing this one again.