Take your hobby to new heights on the world’s longest elevated pedestrian bridge. Perched 212 feet above the Hudson, this linear park and engineering marvel was refashioned in 2009 from the neglected remains of what was once the longest bridge on Earth. About 500,000 visitors stream across it annually to take in the pristine panorama that encompasses the Catskills, historic architecture, Paleozoic escapements, rowers, sailboats, manicured bank parks, and hot air balloons.

Despite the name, it isn’t Jaws you should be worried about bumping into when rolling around this 15.8-mile loop in the Sunshine State’s signature swamp/slow-moving river. They don’t call the region “Alligator Alley” for nothing. You’ll also possibly come across various other beasts of the southern wild like gopher tortoises, a bevy of turtle species, muskrats, centipedes, golden silk orb-weavers, millennial pink roseate spoonbills, nine-banded armadillos, or endangered panthers.

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While the state’s own century ride from Morganton to Asheville (Fonta Flora Trail) is still in the planning phase, put tar heels to pedals on this wide track in Johnston County (JoCo in local vernacular) instead. It travels for four miles along the Neuse River’s edge until crossing over it. It’s free of motorized vehicles except for occasional patrol aboard ATVs, but you’ll have to share the road with dogs and butterflies.

It’s impossible not to experience Rocky Mountain highs when wheels down on this 42-mile alpine-adjacent artery spanning the length of the Roaring Fork Valley. It’s a visual feast of snow-capped cathedral mountains, silver clouds, seasonal cascades, whitewater swirls dancing around glacial rivers, hills rusted red with iron deposits, super blooms of fireweed and bluebells, Aspen groves that gave the ski community its name, and rustic ranches straight out of a Ralph Lauren campaign. The grade is often slight but constant and the air thin.

At 87 miles, it’s the longest continuous off-road segment of the East Coast Greenway, a 3,000-mile collection of multi-use paths linking 15 states and 450 cities from Maine to Florida. With its quaint seaside villages, blueberry thickets, cranberry bogs, salmon-filled rivers, glassy ponds that reflect blue skies and puffy clouds, and dense woods that explode in fiery shades in autumn, the former Calais Branch Railroad Corridor is surely one of the prettiest portions as well.

Portland is a cyclist-friendly city with fantastic urban bike paths, but nature calls and you should answer. About 30 minutes from downtown a century-old railroad line, once a fundamental tool of the Beaver State’s lumber industry has been reforested into a 21-mile-long trail.

The Golden State is lousy with purpose-built paths—seriously we’re talking in the triple digits—and annoyingly moderate-to-outstanding weather. You could ride twice a week for a year without ever repeating a route and see frolicking dolphins, fruiting vineyards, Yosemite’s Half Dome, or swaying palms and Venice street performers without ever leaving the saddle.