new bike trails in korea (nam yang ju city)

A new bike road opened. it's relatively recent one opened about a one and half year ago in Namhangang (Southern Han River), Gyeonggi-do (Gyeonggi Province). Gyeonggido has been renovating closed railroads and bridges to open the new road as part of the Korean government's Four Major River Restoration Project. The newly opened bike road is 26.8 kilometers long and connects Paldang Station in Namyangju to Yanggeun Bridge in Yangpyeong

It's relatively close to seoul.. you can get there less than 2hours by bicycle if you start from han river bike trail in seoul

This new bicycle path (which also allows walkers as well, but no cars or motorbikes) is attracting many crowds. Enough so to justify setting up restaurants along the bike path that cars just don’t have access to. It’s kind of cool to think of a world revolving around bikes, not cars, but that’s what it’s like once you start riding on this path. Like existing in a car-less world. It’s kind of amazing!

If you don’t have your own bike, have no fear. There are many bike rental shops and there are even various locations where you can borrow a bike for free. Two of those places are just outside Yangsu station and yang pyeong station on the Jungang line. The rental bikes look like quite nice mountain bikes. Bike paths now snake all around Korea. Just by getting on the north side of the Han river in Seoul, you can bike all the way to Chungju in North Chungcheon province without ever having to get off the path. Bike path maps are also conveniently posted along the path in various places, though often only in Korean. I’ve yet to see many foreigners along this path outside of Seoul