(EMAILWIRE.COM, May 18, 2011 ) PORTLAND, Maine---Summer Feet Cycling, a bicycle tour company that specializes in high-quality, once in a lifetime bicycling vacations in Maine, offers independent cyclists a welcome alternative to traditional group bike tours. Summer Feet Cycling offers a selection of self-guided Maine bike tours that offer travelers a budget-friendly and fun way to explore MaineÂ’s beauty at their own pace.
On a self-guided bike tour, travelers choose their own tour start date and Summer Feet Cycling makes all lodging arrangements and luggage transfers, provides detailed route notes and maps, and ensures that guests are dropped off and picked up at the beginning and ending of the bike tour. Guests enjoy a hearty breakfast each day and accommodation in quaint inns and B&BÂ’s. Self-guided tours can be completely customized to meet the needs of the travelers in terms of tour length and daily cycling mileages, with a 5-day minimum. Summer Feet Cycling offers explorations of MaineÂ’s stunning coastal shorelines, Acadia National Park, and many of MaineÂ’s historical and cultural highlights through self-guided tours like these:
MaineÂ’s Gold Coast
This week-long self-guided bike tour explores the best of Bar Harbor and Camden with highlights like cycling through stunning terrain at Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, the Schoodic Peninsula, Islesboro, and Rockport. Other highlights include feasting on freshly-caught Maine lobster, kayaking MaineÂ’s pristine waters, taking a sunset sail on Penobscot Bay, and staying in charming Maine inns and B&BÂ’s. Price: $1500 pp (including bike rental).
Pedal the Coast (Light)
This ‘light’ version of Summer Feet Cycling’s popular Pedal the Coast tour offers travelers the opportunity to enjoy an inn to inn bike tour of Maine at a more relaxed pace. Guests can choose between 5 and 9 days of cycling and Summer Feet can also add layover days for more rest and relaxation or activities like kayaking, sightseeing, and hiking to create a more adventurous vacation. The coast of Maine offers stunning diversity as it traverses almost 400 hundred miles from Kittery to the Canadian border. Travelers can get an exclusive look at the best of the Maine coast with cycling along Pemaquid Point, Penobscot Bay, Blue Hill Bay, and Acadia National Park. Prices start at $1600 pp.
For more information about Summer Feet CyclingÂ’s self-guided bike tours like these, visit www.summerfeet.net
