Burke and East Haven
7/23/25
This was a super fun ride! It was a short 7.5 miles, but the bulk of it is an out of the way gravel ride through forests and fields with nice views of Burke Mt ski area to the southeast.
This town is a bike hub, since the Kingdom Trail system is located very nearby. There are a lot of bikers on town roads accessing the off-road mountain bike trails. We instead looked for gravel. And we found it.
We started out on White School road, a short paved road that brought us to Marshall Newland road- a nice gentle gravel road. At the end of Marshall Newland Road, we turned left to bike a short section of route 114 to turn left onto Mountain Road in E. Haven. Part way up, where the road is paved, is a very fun looking goat farm,
Georges Blvd started out as a normal gravel road, and eventually turned into class 4 loop. While it isn’t clearly marked, if you want to do the loop, you need to take the right fork at this intersection, which loops you back to Georges Blvd, and along the same route that you took out.
We encountered some berry pickers near the height of land. As we descended we found slightly washed out sections that were no problem to navigate with a gravel bike, but we wondered how the berry pickers had gotten through it in their Subaru.
We had lunch at the Orange Rind- in Burke -an indoor/outdoor bar with really good food.
This is a pretty unique place, in that they have a post and beam gazebo with the names of different bike trails carved into the beams.
Great ride, great day!