Date: Aug 9, 2025
Start Time: 05:30
Time Limit: 20 hours plus 132 minutes RUSA dirt bonus (Riders need to finish by 03:42 on Aug 10, 2025)
Route: LRVT to NEK via Saint J, then to Derby Line, New Port, Richford, Eonsburg via MVRT and back to E Berkshire, Montgomery center and back to Morrisville. Submitted Route
Start: Dunkin Donut across from Sunset Motor Inn in Morrisville VT (157 Vermont Rt 100/15 W, Morrisville VT 05661)
Finish: Sunset Motor Inn (160 VT-15 W, Morrisville, VT 05661)
Controls: Greensboro Bend (Smith’s Grocery), Saint J (Any business on Railroad Ave), Derby Line (Irving Gas), North Troy (Troy Hoagies), Eonsburg (Shell/Jolley Mart, 24 hr)
Ride Leader: Tsun Au Yeung
Registration: https://www.bikereg.com/nervt300k-2025
Ride leader long for re-experiencing the NEK 300km (RUSA route 1596) magic that he decided to say yes to reconfigure a route to take advantage of the rail trails that was not completed 10 years ago when said route first created. The portion of the route from Lyndonville/Burke to Richford are mostly true to the original so riding on the ridge of Darling Hill Rd, skirting through downtown Newport, and climbing up to the plain at Newport Center, as well as going up Jay Peak and down the cross the border segments have been remained intact.
Lights and reflective are required for the ride. Only for the very fast rider that returning before sunset is feasible (I think there is about 15 hours of daylight)
More pictures to come either during pre-drive/pre-ride check or digging into the “Archive” (read FB and/or Strava) from my ride dating back to 2018.