The group I went out with today rode round the east side of Peterborough (UK) today, I came back by the west side which is more undulating but my ton today was only 258ft in 10 miles on average. It’s circa 100ft per 10 miles (or less) to the east of Peterborough.
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Eastern Iowa.
Minimum ~30’ per mile(600 ft in 20 miles)
Maximum has been about 108’ per mile(2,160 ft in 20 miles)
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I live in the “Watchung Mountains” (LOL, they’re like 650 feet high, max), so I get a little more hilliness than that out the door. Often I head out to the Highlands; there’s a fairly sharp line between “flat” and “hilly” delineated by Rt 202 between Morristown and Far Hills, and I’ll drive out and park on the flat side and ride up into the hills, Here’s today: Strava Ride Activity
Still not very high but a lot of up and down.
From New Brunswick you could leave the towpath at Bound Brook and head into the Watchungs.
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I haven’t ridden in that area but know it, aunt/uncle live in Mendham. That’s the way he heads to ride if he wants hills too.
Looks like the area I can see from my house is 1550ft, there’s a state park, hiked there, so know you can ride up just haven’t ventured out yet.
This climb is one people use locally for everesting attempts, there’s an event in the fall I think " burgerfest".
Will give it ago by end of the year, might need to think about gearing change…
If I drive 45 minutes I can bang out a few thousand feet but it’s not exactly easy or fun. Plenty of flat stuff though…which is nice when you weigh 200#’s
Joe
hey, LOL, the rules were:
so this:
is a no no! LOL
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Just flexing my idiocy!
(You guys saw the humid 95 degrees right?)
Joe
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right there with you, I posted a good one (well, 25 miles) and then posted 3 more that broke the 20 mile loop rule!
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“Hang the code, and hang the rules. They’re more like guidelines anyway”
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I near just outside Seattle. For April I had 600 non-trainer miles an 48,390’ of climbing. So 1,613’ for every 20 miles.
I live in South Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on the west edge of a basin called the Mearns at the foot of the Cairngorm mountain plateau, there is a ridge on the other side of the basin 230m high that drops down to the coast.
If I ride into the mountains to the west, 20 miles isn’t enough to get over the mountains to the next pass to make a loop, the shortest route is Ride Strava 73km with 1100m of ascent.
If I stick to the basin its much flatter
Ride Strava 30km, 100m elevation
Ride Strava 32km, 216m elevation
#rule 24
OP here. I appreciate all the responses. I’m close to 50’ per mile in my part of Kansas. So it’s good to know I’m not as starved for ascent as I might have thought.
Less than 10’ per mile out my door. I grew up in a flat (glacier scraped) part of the midwest. And now live in between mountain ranges where it is pancake flat. I’ve been to Kansas many times, and Kansas is not that flat.
Did a 30mi road ride on Sunday and got a little over 1000’. It’s flatter than folks think here but you can obviously find some elevation if you want it! Especially if you do any MTB or gravel.
Ithaca, NY. Minimum climb of about 500 ft; typical is 1200-1400 ft; hilly is 2000 ft.
Where is “here”?
Doesn’t everybody know where I live? 
I’m in Denver
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In my part of SoCal I can do a pretty flat ride if I want. But with a 20 mile loop limit, I’m pretty limited on climbing. The local bike shop does a Monday night 20 mile ride which is about 1000’.
