<p>are there excellent bike routes to take and spend some time exercising on?</p>
<p>ahh, one of the best exercises you’ll get is if you bike down whitney and make a right on east rock avenue. That’ll take you to a beautiful and large outcropping called east rock (duh). Go across the river and make a right, follow that until you see an openning for bikes only (it’ll be on your left, after about a mile or so, if you pass the fields, then you’ve gone too far). Proceed up for a good half hour/hour, its one great ascent, and its pretty paved. There are TONS of trails and off-biking stuff to do as well - there are two peaks - , but you might want to bring someone along with you who knows the trails. With the foliage turning right now, it should be beautiful. On top of east rock is a great picnic area and some sort of war monument. To get down, take the car road instead of the bike road and it’ll lead you to a beautiful field, also great for picnics.</p>
<p>In a similar vein, are there any good hiking/backpacking areas relatively nearby?</p>
<p>um, it’s connecticut. >_></p>
<p>Um…I’m from the midwest…
I’m not intimately acquainted with the topography of anything other than central Indiana cornfields.</p>
<p>Um…I don’t really get it. Is being Connecticut an affirmative or a negative to the question?</p>
<p>Well, I asked if there were any good hiking/backpacking areas nearby.
Then amnesia said “um, it’s connecticut.” But that doesn’t really tell me anything.</p>
<p>Yes, so I’m asking, does the fact that it’s Connecticut mean there are hiking trails or not? I’d like to know also.</p>
<p>yes it helps you. every place east of the missippi save for appalachians are at sea level.</p>
<p>not much to hike around.</p>
<p>knowing ur smartness, u should know the geography.</p>
<p>There are a lot of beautiful flat trails. I live in a designated desert and there are lovely places to hike sans mountains. Compared to here, the very little I saw of CT is gorgeous. I was just wondering if they have well-defined trails like here.</p>
<p>“every place east of the missippi save for appalachians are at sea level”</p>
<p>Hasty exaggeration there. Not a single part of the Yale Campus is at sea level. What are you talking about? As for additional mountain ranges, there’s Berkshires, Green Mountains, Catskills just to name a few within a 3 hour ride from CT. New Haven itself has some interesting formations. And we’re talking hiking - not mountain climbing here, so there’s plenty of gorgeous flat and hilly treks.</p>
<p>relatively at sea level… ;)</p>