Racquette Lake Loop - great kid friendly new york back country trip

[Perfpsi]

I wanted to create an introductory trip for my 11 year old boy and expose him to bike-packing. he is a competent mountain biker, but as always with kids it is important to keep it fun, have a bail out for bad weather and access to facilities.

We just completed a short overnight on our fat bikes.  with add ons we did - 34 miles total -
our route was a loop in the racquette lake region of the adirondacks in NY

 on a combination of single track, double track, jeep roads - with less than a mile on pavement. some of the ride had challenging climbs, and sections that were technical, but not overly so - just enough to be fun.
in route planning we made sure there was a lunch stop ( to limit rehydrated meals) , ice cream stop at a general store,  allowed for overnight options at a campground or an adirondack park trail side lean-to. ( we choose the lean-to )
but slept in our hammock set up. also brought our pocket fishing rods, and caught a few fish.

great trip, my son can not wait to do this again.

[Surfx]

Hi, you wouldn't happen to have a gpx for this route? New to bike packing and looking for an easy route to get started. Was looking for something more southern NY, but if I could get up there, this looks good.
Thanks!

[kimchi]

I'd love the gpx track too -- sounds like a great route for my husband and I to test out our bikepacking setups


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[Perfpsi]

here is gpx -  short loop sagamore lake is not possible after may. but all else is great.

[Surfx]

That's great. Thanks!