Fair Hill
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Fair Hill is located just inside of Maryland nor far from Newark DE.  It's a great relatively-flat areas of woods, fields, nice singletrack, a natural maze, and a great trail system. We generally park in a small parking area off of route 273, but there are other parking areas that connect to the trail system. 

Here's a Google Earth shot of the Fair Hill complex.  Note the parking area.  Here is the link for the Google Earth shot if you have it installed on your computer.

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Here's a topographic map of the ride from 11/5/05.  We started from the parking lot on 273, but I ended up at the lot on Appleton Road with a munged bottom bracket and had to be picked up there.

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2006

Here's the track of a ride on 4/16/06.  This track comes from SportTracks, which downloads data from my Garmin Forerunner 301 CPS/Heart Rate Monitor and transforms it into maps, speed and elevation graphs and heart rate charts.

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Here's the map in relation to the local roads:  Street map - Fair Hill 4-15-2006.jpg (185466 bytes)

Here are the elevation and heart rate graphs from that ride


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2005

Here's the track of the ride as shown on Google Earth.  You'll see it as a thin blue line on the map - a little hard to see.  This link may give you the track on your Google Earth map.

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Here are some pictures from the 11/5/05 ride.  This is Lisa, Kevin, Erin, Jon, Ben Greg, Jess and Joe in the parking lot near the covered bridge.

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Here's the group heading across one of the many fields and into the woods.

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Here are some shots from the woods, including Jess fixing the chain on his bike

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