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Print Friendly MapThe Newport News Park Bikeway offers a pleasant 5-mile loop through southern Virginia woodlands. The unpaved trail takes you through the 8,000-acre park and offers a connection to Colonial National Historical Park, where you can visit George Washington's headquarters at the Yorktown Battlefield. Other recreational activities in the park include: archery, golf, fishing, hiking and mountain biking.
Bikes can be rented at the park's campsite office. Note that young children are required to wear a helmet on the trail.
A parking lot is available past the campground office at 13564 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News (Interstate 64 Exit 250B).
This is the first trail I've ever ridden at it was a perfect beginner trail! I'd say 95% of the trail is shaded and I only saw like 3 other people on the trail
we are older and just started riding, love this trail, beautiful scenery and most roots are marked with blue paint so you can see them easily, there are not that many roots. It was such a nice day, really enjoyed it. When we get better, we plan on taking this trail to Yorktown.
Mel and I rode this beautiful trail on our tandem bike on Mon-Tues. We had planned to ride 2 loops for 10.6M each day. After completing the 1st loop on Monday, we decided to ride the trail in reverse from exit to begin. We found riding in that direction more conducive to the slight ups/downs! Even though it has been hot average 85F, the heat was manageable - 99% shaded¿ Luv it!
Excellent trail and well maintained park. I just rode two hours on a lovely Saturday and counted only a dozen other riders. Highly recommend this easy ride if five miles for new bikers as the flat and wide trail was an easy way to get started.
We’re full-time RVers staying at the Newport News Park Campsites for a few nights. What a pleasant surprise to find this awesome and easily accessible trail near our campsite. Once we got on the trail so glad we turned off at the George Washington Headquarters sign. We then enjoyed a “Historic Tour” of the Colonial National Historic Park (NPS). Easy, flat loop.
This bike loop is perfect for a morning workout through the picturesque woods. We typically ride the loop twice to extend it.
Nice 5 mile ride under the trees. Take the turn for the George Washington site about 1/2 way around the loop. From there you can hop on a paved road with many historical markers. If you take the fork that leads to Yorktown you can continue less than 2 more miles to the Yorktown National Cemetery and all the way to Historical Yorktown and the beachfront. Pack a lunch and eat at one of the picnic benches in the grassy area by the water. Public bathrooms available. Total ride was 17 miles round trip with the Yorktown cruise through the historical homes.
Nice and peaceful 5mile loop!
A lovely quiet 5 mile loop trail thru pretty woods. The bonus to this trail is that it can be extended into Yorktown Battlefield for enjoying a historic area and biking a 20-mile day. Half way thru the loop there is a small sign for "Washington Headquarters". A small path thru the woods leads to the Yorktown Battlefield scenic loop trail. This is a paved one way road for automobiles to auto tour the battlefield. A nice historic ride ends up at the small town of Yorktown along the York River. There are several restaurants, but we like the Yorktown Pub a little south of the main town. The historic middle of town is closed to automobile traffic and easy to explore. By taking the Yorktown River Walk which leads to the new Yorktown visitor's center and taking the French Encampment loop of the battlefield tour on the way home we ended with 21 miles for the day.
This trail offers plenty of hills to change gears. The terrain is mostly dirt/gravel/pine straw. There were a few muddy areas, but that's common for most trails after some rainy days. The trail itself is nice and wide (car lane size) and from the parking lot, start to finish, equals 5.3 miles.
A campground uses the area for archery, biking, etc, but we hardly ever came past someone on the trail. There are 2 buildings with bathrooms, one at the parking lot and one further down past the campers. Though there were only 1 or 2 benches along the bike trail, it offered some side trails that we ventured off to. There's a sign for "Washington Memorial" that takes you off of the main trail and into a tiny path that opens to a small parking lot, and up on a hill is what looks like a gravestone.
All in all, this trail is relaxing and fun. The gear changing hills are semi-challenging, and I love how secluded I feel when we're back there - like we've escaped from the real world lol. We like to ride down near the water (near the parking lot) to cool down and take in the scenery.
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