York County Heritage Rail Trail

27.4 mi Out-and-back 30 ft gain

Heritage Rail Trail County Park is a National Recreation Trail rail-with-trail in Pennsylvania built in 1999 by the York County Rail Trail Authority (YCRTA). It connects with the Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail in Maryland. The trail runs along the active Northern Central Railway line and forms the southernmost part of Route J in the BicyclePA route system.

Workable day to get the road bike out.

61 /100
good
61 Road
73 E-bike

Best for e-bike riding today

Orange marker is the start. Click the map to enable scroll-zoom — the polyline is approximate; use Ride with GPS or Komoot for turn-by-turn.

  • Air temp
    81°F
    Partly Cloudy
  • Wind
    — mph
    NE
  • Rain
    0%
    Next 24h: 0.01"
  • Humidity
    48%
  • Pavement
    dry
    mixed surface
  • Sunrise
    6:44 AM
  • Sunset
    7:23 PM
    154 min remaining

5 PM looks best — 79°F · 2 mph NE wind · partly sunny. 6 PM is a close second (61/100).

5 PM Best
79°

Partly Sunny

2 mph NE
61
6 PM
77°

Partly Cloudy

2 mph E
61

Calm — wind is a non-factor today.

Currently 0 mph from the N (0°). Relative to this ride's overall bearing, a headwind.

  1. Leg 1 Bearing 358° · headwind 2.3 mi
  2. Leg 2 Bearing 324° · quartering headwind 2.2 mi
  3. Leg 3 Bearing 325° · quartering headwind 2.3 mi
  4. Leg 4 Bearing 333° · headwind 2.3 mi
  5. Leg 5 Bearing 19° · headwind 1.9 mi
  6. Leg 6 Bearing 8° · headwind 1.8 mi
  7. Leg 7 Bearing 2° · headwind 2.0 mi
  8. Leg 8 Bearing 17° · headwind 2.1 mi
350'500'650'800' 0 mi3 mi6 mi9 mi12 mi15 mi18 mi21 mi23 mi
1243 ft gain 1692 ft loss Max 899' Min 351' 22.5 mi sampled
·
81°F air Within comfort range, outside ideal
-3
+
Pavement: dry Clean dry pavement — maximum grip.
+4
Distance
27.4 mi one-way (double for round-trip)
Elevation gain
30 ft
Surface
mixed
Shape
Out-and-back
Traffic exposure
separated
Activities
road cycling · e bike
Cycle network
RCN · route YCH
Operator
York County
Start
39.7210, -76.6979
City hub
York, PA
OSM
relation 9214874

Description sourced from the Wikipedia summary.

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