Initial Research

I spent some time looking at the global heatmaps on Strava and RideWithGPS. According to the the heatmaps, the most traveled routes between Pittsburgh and Verona, which will be my first stop, start by taking Lincoln Ave through Larimer. A mile-ish East of Larimer the heatmaps fork, though. The upper path continues down and around Sunset View Cemetery. And the lower path climbs up and around Mt. Carmel Cemetery. The paths converge at the Green Belt near Sandy Creek. From there it’s all down hill and flat on some state routes with mostly reasonable-looking shoulders for the final three mile stretch.

The upper path requires slightly less climbing than the lower path. Both roads are only two lanes wide and Google street view shows they both have shoulders that occasoinally disappear.