Old Croton Aqueduct Trail and the Croton Dam

 I set out for a flat hard packed dirt ride on the trail that was home to NYC's water supply beginning in the early 1800's. The starting point was the Croton Dam seen above. As you can see it was active and quite majestic.

 The elevation of the dam was freakin high. Really high!!

 This was the fireroad that led up to the trail which runs from Croton down to NYC. I only rode down to Ossining and back.

 In the picture above you really can't see it but that the Hudson River in the background. The views were incredible. Most of the trail ran parallel to the Croton River and it was like looking into a canyon it was so high.

Pic above shows what most of the trail looked like, but as you can see by my GPS data there were a few insane climbs as well.