Around Lake Ontario Epic Bike Tour

DAY 1: We meet just outside of Rochester, NY, home to worldwide WomanTours headquarters. We’ll start our tour at 3:30 pm with an orientation, followed by a bike prep clinic and then dinner together. 0 miles.

DAYS 2-11: We’ll run this tour as we do our other epic and cross-country tours. After a light, nutritionally balanced buffet breakfast, we’ll pack our bike bags with snacks, and be on our way at our own pace.

We’ll ride out of the hotel on a short paved bike trail and then we’re quickly at the shores of Lake Ontario. The landscape becomes gently rolling and flat farmland full of apple orchards and cow pastures.

We’ll support this tour with our SAG vehicle that holds water, snacks, tire repair tools and a first aid kit. Even if you don’t need anything, you can stop to chat and talk about the wonderful tailwind or the panoramic view.

Lunch is on your own during the day if you want something heartier than the snacks out of our SAG vehicle. We encourage you to stop and get a taste of the local fare.

Once at our hotel, you’ll find your luggage, (delivered earlier by the WomanTours van and trailer,) and check in to your room. We rotate roommates every time we change hotels, unless you’ve requested a specific roommate or to upgrade to a single room. There will be time to shower before dinner and perhaps take a dip in the hotel pool. 

If anyone has experienced bike problems during the day, our guides will use the time before dinner to fix it. Then we eat dinner together, served buffet-style, usually outside. Our traveling chef creates hearty and healthy dishes from our trailer kitchen. While she will accommodate guests with specific allergies and provide a nonmeat protein source for vegetarians, she cannot always adhere to everyone’s likes and dislikes. We ask that you be flexible. If you require a vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free or other type of special diet, there is a $75 surcharge.

After dinner, our guide will hold a map meeting to discuss the highlights of the day and to go over the details of the next day’s route.

We’ll have one layover day on this tour in Toronto, Canada to give our bodies a chance to recover. We’ll also have time to explore this fascinating city, which proudly proclaims itself to be the most diverse and safest in the world. 55 miles on average per day.

DAY 12: We end our tour with a short ride back on the Erie Canalway Trail into Rochester, NY. With any luck, the prominent west wind will provide us with a wonderful tailwind back to our offices. After enjoying a final picnic lunch and saying your good-byes, WomanTours will provide a complimentary shuttle to the airport by 1:30pm. 25 miles.