The only hills in the area overpasses for the railroad and the bridge over the canal.
All roads have good, smooth surfaces and many have wide shoulders.
Along some of the major north-south highways traffic gets quite heavy. On most of these miles, the roads are rural and lightly traveled. Primarily a flat ride with farmlands and the bayshore for scenery, this ride passes the entrance to Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge on the way to Broadkill Beach, a small swimming area on the Delaware Bay. The wildlife refuge has hiking trails and gravel roads. The three-thousand acre state park at Cape Henlopen has four miles of beach with trained life guards on duty from Memorial Day through Labor Day.