Tour de Niagara Falls

- a Smart-guided Multi-option Bikeway Adventure

Experience Niagara Falls by bike - make it a short day, a one-day, or more days on bikeways tour with several distance and starting options.

You have options! Make it a short day, a one-day, a two-day overnight, a three-day extended, or more bikeway tour. Two starting points:

1. Niagara Falls, New York for the 4-mile Short One-way Loop to Canadian Niagara Falls
2. Buffalo, New York for all the rest, where you can arrive by plane, train, or automobile. Or boat, bus, bike, or car rental - Buffalo has options!

Tour de Niagara Falls has 4 CycleNuts tour type categories - DT (Day Tour), LOL* (Long One-way Loop), OT (Overnight Tour), and SOL (Short One-way Loop) - with seven options and Niagara Falls or Fort Niagara destinations:

• Two one-day there-an- back tours - to Niagara Falls or Fort Niagara (LOL DT)
• A two or three-day overnight hotel-stay tour (LOL OT)
• A two-day or three-day overnight camping tour (LOL OT)
• All tours come with an optional free 4-mile Canadian Niagara Falls Tour (SOL) or purchase it separately.

*the LOLs going to Fort Niagara are floops - flattened loops repeating bikeway stretches where pleasant bikeway options were not available for the return.

This collection of Tour de Niagara Falls Smart-guided Selfie Tours has all the bells and whistles you have come to expect with a CycleNuts Selfie Tour:

• easy to navigate
• bikeway focused
• expertly designed route
• points of interest included along the way
• very sensible options for both long and short-distance riders

Tour de Niagara hits all the major attractions. The itinerary takes you by all the area favorites, giving you the option of stopping or rolling on by. A free Canadian tour is included with a Tour de Niagara ticket purchase or it can be purchased separately. The Short One-way Loop (SOL) in Canada Selfie Tour is an optional 4-mile adventure that hits all the favorite Canadian tourist spots. The Canadian side of Niagara Falls is easily accessed by crossing the Rainbow International Bridge. The SOL link navigates you across the border-crossing bridge for a short tour, and then easily navigates you back to the American side to resume the tour. Remember to have your proper border credentials if crossing into Canada.

The routes are all loops and about 83% bikeways - bike trails, bike lanes, and long stretches of the repurposed Niagara Scenic Parkway (segments closed to motor vehicle traffic). The distances of the tours vary between 57 and 116 miles. Because these are LOL tours your sightseeing pleasure is doubled, rarely seeing the same thing twice.

Tour ticket options:

• 1-day SOL in Canadian Niagara Falls - 4 miles
• 1-day DT from Buffalo to Niagara Falls - 60 miles
• 1-day DT Buffalo to Fort Niagara - 91 miles
• 2-day OT Hotel Stay from Buffalo to Niagara Falls and return - 57 miles
• 2-day OT Campground Stay from Buffalo to Niagara Falls and return - 68 miles
• 3-day OT Hotel Stay from Buffalo to Niagara Falls to Fort Niagara and return - 113 miles
• 3-day OT Campground Stay from Buffalo to Niagara Falls to Fort Niagara and return - 116

All routes come with CycleNuts' 50% downhill guarantee and are a mix of asphalt bikeways, crushed stone bike trails, repurposed highways, bike lanes, sharrows, and roadways. The segments that are not bikeways are commonly cycled roadways when possible. If you are more comfortable using sidewalks in these areas, some roadway segments have sidewalks. "While riding a bicycle on a sidewalk is not prohibited by New York statutes, some municipalities have passed ordinances prohibiting bicycle traffic on certain sidewalks. This prohibition is usually posted." source: https://www.dot.ny.gov/display/programs/bicycle/faq

The routes follow the lay of the land along the Niagara River, which is relatively level. Sweating is optional, and possibly avoidable. The Niagara River shoreline, set between Lake Erie and Lake Huron, produces an often breezy condition mitigating the humidity level in this region.

This is a perfect weekend destination adventure! If doing the tour as an overnight 2 or 3-day adventure, the overnight hotel suggestions in the route directions are CycleNuts-approved based on Google Maps reviews zero-bedbug complaints. The costs of overnight stays are not included with tour ticket purchases.

Easily, with the Smart-guide, you can wander away from the planned route to explore areas and points of interest that you find along the way. It will get you back on the tour route when you are ready.

Speaking of wandering away to see things along the way, check out the impressive list of things to do and see on this tour.

Points-of-interest:

• Lake Erie
• Whirlpool
• Luna Island
• Goat Island
• Niagara Falls
• Niagara River
• Lake Ontario
• Maid of the Mist
• Old Fort Niagara
• American Rapids
• Cave of the Winds
• Three Sisters Islands
• Haunted House of Wax
• Canadian Niagara Falls
• City of Niagara Falls, New York
• Niagara Wax Museum of History
• Niagara Falls Observation Tower

*not all points of interest are on all tour options

Trails*:

• West River Trail
• Empire State Trail
• Niagara Greenway
• Trans-Canada Trail
• Grand Island Bikeway

*not all trails are on all our options

WHY CHOOSE a Smart-guided Selfie Cycle Tour?



You get all the benefits of a guided tour without the drawbacks of a tour guide, other tourists, time restrictions, and a rigid tour agenda. With this smart-guided tour, you can go when you want, at your speed, and hang out at a spot as long as you wish. You can even wander off the planned route and the smart guide will get you back on track when you are ready.

HERE'S THE PLAN: You bring a bike and a smartphone. CycleNuts provides the smart-tour guide links! You will receive an expertly designed tour route via email. Click the emailed link and follow the Selfie Tour route using your smartphone as your smart-tour guide for the Voice and Map guided turn-by-turn instructions.

SHORT INSTRUCTIONS: From your location, using your cell phone click on the starting spot link and follow the Google Maps directions. When you arrive, click the emailed tour navigation links to begin the tour. The navigation links will be either Google Maps, Ride With GPS (RWGPS), or both. For more complex tours, there may be several links to click with additional instructions. With Google Maps, the navigator will prompt you at each checkpoint to continue navigation.

BUY NOW AND RIDE WHENEVER AND FOREVER. The route links do not expire. Buy now and plan out your adventure - invite your favorite peeps or ride solo; make overnight accommodation reservations, if needed; reserve a sitter for your pooch, or bring along - many tours include dog-friendly tasty spots. The purchase is for the CycleNuts Selfie Smart-guided route links and instructions. Attractions, lodgings, food, bike rental, etc. are not included.

CycleNuts Selfie Tours tie together fun, interesting, scenic, historic, tasty, and refreshing points of interest along a bikeway-focused tour route where you ride at your pace and pleasure. You are the tour boss. You choose the date and time - the tour is good for any day or time.

With these Smart-guided Selfie Cycle Tours, you bring the bike, and the smartphone - CycleNuts provides the smart-guided links. The smart guide gives voice and visual turn-by-turn instructions along an expertly designed tour route.

Do the tour solo or bring along your crew. Easily stop anywhere along the way to visit attractions or refreshments and the smart guide will continue the route from wherever you are when you are ready to roll.

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