Coon Mountain

This 18.5-mile loop over rolling terrain enables you to combine biking with hiking. Coon Mountain Preserve, owned by the Adirondack Nature Conservancy, offers the best opportunity for exploring on foot. A one-mile trail leads to a summit with a spectacular panorama of Lake Champlain and its valley, the High Peaks and the Green Mountains. Split Rock Mountain, overlooking the lake, also has hiking trails. Birders might want to stop at Webb-Royce Swamp. You’ll cross the Boquet River twice on this bike trip.

Willsboro point

A 14.5-mile trip makes a circuit around Willsboro Point, offering numerous views of Lake Champlain and historic homes. It’s an easy ride with only one steep hill near the start. Limestone from Willsboro Point was used in the construction of the state Capitol at Albany and the Brooklyn Bridge. There once was a community of quarry workers here with its own post office, stores and tramway. Today, Cornell University runs an experimental farm on the Point. You can visit a log cabin built in 1778 by Samuel Adsit.