Great Places to Bike and Walk
Our favorite area trails for biking and walking
Great bike rides using the D&R Canal towpath along the Delaware River
The amazing Lawrence Hopewell Trail
West Windsor Trolley Line Trail Guide (now extended another 0.4 miles)
Ron Rogers Arboretum across the street from H.S. South (corner of Clarksville Road and Princeton-Hightstown Road)
Zaitz Woods on Southfield Road
Millstone West off Joanne Street (by Millstone Road) and the Millstone Trail on the other side of Millstone Road
Historic West Windsor bike route
Plainsboro Bikeways and Walkways maps
Plainsboro Preserve (more than 5 miles of trails, but no biking)
Institute for Advanced Study Woods
Abbott Marshlands (Hamilton)
Woosamonsa Ridge Preserve (Pennington)
Cross Monmouth County on the 9-mile Union Transportation Trail (south of Hightstown)
To find more trails
- Trail finder for PA-NJ Circuit Trails network (includes Mercer County)
- TrailLink (great national trail finder from Rails to Trails Conservancy)
More bicycle and pedestrian resources in West Windsor and Mercer County (plus Plainsboro)
- Boys & Girls Club Bike Exchange (sells used biked and accepts donations of used bikes)
- Taming Traffic: Context-Sensitive Solutions in the DVRPC Region
(including Clarksville Road, West Windsor) - Friends of West Windsor Open Space
- Greater Mercer Transportation Management Association (GMTMA) (contact them about a bike locker at the train station)
- GMTMA Greater Mercer Trails Plan
- Greening of West Windsor
- Mercer County Bike Master Plan
- Mercer County Bikeability Map
- Princeton Biking – Recreation Guide
- Princeton Free Wheelers (recreational bicycling club)
- Princeton University bicycle map
- West Windsor BikeFest
New Jersey
- Biking in New Jersey (NJDOT bicycling maps)
- Freehold Bike Brochure
- FreeWalkers
- Get Outside NJ
- Middlesex County Trails and Maps
- New Jersey Bicycle and Pedestrian Resource Center (NJDOT/Rutgers)
- New Jersey Bike & Walk Coalition
- New Jersey Bicycling Routes and Maps
- New Jersey Trails Program
- New Jersey Safe Routes to School Resource Center
- New Jersey Trails Association
- New Jersey Transit Bicycle Access Policies
Regional
- Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia
- Bicycle Commuting Tips for New York City
- Bike New York (organizer of the annual 5-Boro Bike Ride)
- Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (165-mile trail – with some gaps – from Bristol, PA through Easton, Bethlehem, Allentown to Wilkes Barre)
- Pennsylvania Trails
National
- Adventure Cycling (nonprofit creator of cross-country and multi-state routes)
- Complete Street for an Aging America, AARP
- Commute by Bike (tips, news, reviews, and safety)
- Cycling Savvy (learn bike skills)
- East Coast Greenway (3,000-mile route from Maine to Florida and organizer of 2-day NYC-PHL bike ride)
- A Kid’s Guide to Bicycle Safety
- A Kids Guide to Safe Walking
- League of American Bicyclists
- Mountain bike trails database (sponsored by REI)
- National Wildlife Federation “Be Out There” Campaign
- Rails To Trails Conservancy
- Safe Routes to School
- Walk and Bike to Schools
- Walking School Bus
- Walk Score