25 mile ride there and back. Fairly straight but big hills to climb each way coming up from the Kentucky River

Very nice ride on country roads. Light traffic on Van Meter and Ironworks, more traffic on Clintonville Rd. Rolling hills will make you work the shifters over.

Beautiful ride on mostly country roads with rolling hills the majority of the way.

trying to avoid the major roads means more climbing and a longer ride

Still, this track uses some sections of route 7 and has quite a stretch of heavier urban traffic past the Beltway

one rather steep climb up Blue Ridge

alternative routing would be via Us 50 all the way up to Fairfax, then turning onto Arlington Blvd to connect with the route as mapped.