Bike Routes

disclaimer: MAAHBR presents these rides solely as a service to its members and the cycling community, and makes no claims as to the fitness of these rides for any purpose.

Boston (thanks to Knox Gardner)

New Bedford (thanks to National Park Service)

Marthas Vineyard (thanks to African American Heritage Trail of Martha's Vineyard) or alternate link

Northampton (Florence) (thanks to Steve Strimer)

Portsmouth NH (thanks to Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail)

Upper Housatonic (Thanks to Rachel Fletcher and the Upper Housatonic African American Heritage Trail)

Nantucket (from Museum of African-American History web site)

EOT Massachusetts bike route map (thanks to David Loutzenheiser)

Selected African-American historical sites overlaid on EOT Massachusetts bike route map (takes a long time to download; this is a test, and not the complete mapping of sites)

Draft Massachusetts African-American Bicycle Route Network (overlaid on EOT Massachusetts bike route map. The challenge is for local communities to add detail, loops and spurs)

Summary chapter of Organizing Committee member Ann Lusk's dissertation on trails/routes

Powerpont presentation about us











All sites sent to cyclingblackhistory@gmail.com in Excel file according to the format at www.sigmaworksconsulting.com/maaabformat.xls will be incorporated into map of historical sites.

Note that we need either the exact street address OR the decimal degrees latitude and longitude to do the mapping. Road conditions can be described in the following ways, in order of importance: Traffic density; Shoulder width; Line of vision (e.g. blind corners)