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Originally Posted by mrnyc
^ yeah past wheeling afaik its just mountain highway. and you are definitely not in ohio anymore!
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There are roads along both sides of the Ohio River for almost its entire length (occasionally a road dips uphill and inland out-of-sight of the river to avoid an unstable hillside or to cross a tributary at a narrow point). I've never heard of anyone biking its entire length from Cairo to Pittsburgh. In some places the road is ideal but more often it is a pseudo-expressway, especially on the Ohio side. Lots of getting passed by tractor trailers and dump trucks, so not a consistently pleasant ride.
Believe it or not, but they consider
this to be a bike route. I've only ridden it once:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9620...7i16384!8i8192
A bikeway along one side of the river or the other would be difficult to build cheaply because of all of the private ownership, driveways, railroad tracks, etc. There would be a temptation to simply wide the existing roads with a protected bike path but to create a pleasant ride experience you'd want a dedicated parallel path some distance away from the traffic.