Every year we go to Rehoboth beach and take our bikes - a ride out to Gordon's pond and a bit of bird watching with the WWII observation towers in the distance. Then we head back and ride through town to the Breakwater Junction Trail to Lewes. This past year the Trail has now been completed across the Great Dune into Historic Camp Miles! Wonderful! now you can ride through the Dune on Trails and then back around into Rehoboth. Never ending bike fun. This is a hidden Gem that I hate to brag about because it is so wonderful. I want to keep it to myself!
Surprisingly nice walk through a bird lovers paradise. Does require an entrance fee. I did about 8 miles of hiking through beach and wetland environments.
Walking hiking and especially biking. They have completed the trail to large loop to Lewes and back.
This is a really nice place, serene nature, wonderful dunes, clean water, spectacular views but showers are basic (you can't showere really, onl;y feet), and for $8 you have to hand to the man at the reception, that is probably should be part of it....
Until this year, the trail between Rehoboth and Cape Henlopen that skirts Gordons Pond was walkable, but virtually unbikeable - parts of it went across sand dunes, and other parts were very narrow, with patches of sand and boggy terrain. Now, there's a raised boardwalk on the northern stretch, and the narrow trail has been widened and finished with a nice packed gravel/dirt surface. Delightul biking through salt marsh. Combine it with the Junction and Breakwater trail for a wonderful 2-3 hour loop trip.
We rented a tandem bike from Seagreen Bicycles and found this area to be an excellent place to ride to. Very nice natural scenes.
Go early in the morning less jogger, walkers and bikers. We rode from Dewey to Gordon's Pond, through Cape Henelopen State Park on the new and improved bike trail at about 8:30am. Though the trail was well used by walkers joggers and bikers, it was still a quiet and tranquil.
Beautiful new bike trail in Cape Henlopen State Park. They could have made it wider. It really gets crowded with pedestrians and bicycles (they should make a special trail for the pros-they seem to get impatient with the tourists. Also, bicycle etiquette should be posted "on your left/right" needs to be used and understood. That aside, make sure to include this on your to do list. Make sure to take a stroll along the beach-on a nice day when all of the tourists have gone to wherever they go, it is spectacular. Great place to go to get away from it all if you can go during off season when at times, you are the only one there.
From the parking lot at Herring Point to the parking lot at Gordon's Pond and return is 5 miles. What better way to get in your exercise? Watch out for bicyclists, they can sneak up on you! Stay to the right when you walk.
This is a nicely paved trail. But be warned of a few things: (1) there is very little shade, (2) there are many more bikers than walkers, (3) it is not a loop. So for our family (who walked) it was not very enjoyable. The bikers were constantly whizzing by, there was no escape from the sun, and my kids complained when they learned we had to retrace our steps to get back. They thought the walk was rather boring. So I would not recommend this for walkers, but definitely for bikers. I wish we had known!