Coast to Coast Bike Trail

Trailhead condition requests, questions, alerts, etc.
Forum rules
  • This is a mountaineering forum, so please keep your posts on-topic. Posts do not all have to be related to the 14ers but should at least be mountaineering-related.
  • Personal attacks and confrontational behavior will result in removal from the forum at the discretion of the administrators.
  • Do not use this forum to advertise, sell photos or other products or promote a commercial website.
  • Posts will be removed at the discretion of the site administrator or moderator(s), including: Troll posts, posts pushing political views or religious beliefs, and posts with the purpose of instigating conflict within the forum.
For more details, please see the Terms of Use you agreed to when joining the forum.
User avatar
painless4u2
Posts: 1297
Joined: 7/14/2010
14ers: 58 
Trip Reports (8)
 

Coast to Coast Bike Trail

Post by painless4u2 »

Rails to Trails Conservancy has this in the works, with more than 50% complete. Sadly, it misses Colorado, but would still be amazing once completed.

https://www.railstotrails.org/great-ame ... ail-trail/
Screenshot (90).png
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Bad decisions often make good stories.

IPAs + Ambien = "14ers" post (Bill M.)

In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps. Proverbs 16:9
Top
User avatar
dpage
Posts: 925
Joined: 7/4/2009
14ers: 58  2 
13ers: 28 3
Trip Reports (1)
 

Re: Coast to Coast Bike Trail

Post by dpage »

dirtwatson wrote:Perhaps I'm confused by their use of the phrase "off-road", but is this a completely paved trail?
I think off road means not on a road. I would guess if you're looking to go off-roading you might want to check out somewhere else.
Top
User avatar
justiner
Posts: 4686
Joined: 8/28/2010
14ers: 3  1 
Trip Reports (37)
 

Re: Coast to Coast Bike Trail

Post by justiner »

Being off-a-road is very compelling.

Lots of use of the future-tense though. Hmm.
Long May You Range! Purveyors of fine bespoke adventures
Top
User avatar
dpage
Posts: 925
Joined: 7/4/2009
14ers: 58  2 
13ers: 28 3
Trip Reports (1)
 

Re: Coast to Coast Bike Trail

Post by dpage »

Dirtwatson, Most likely the C&O Canal is the part by DC but you'll need to wait until they reveal the path to know for sure. But it's crushed gravel.
Top
User avatar
Dave B
Posts: 2419
Joined: 6/14/2010
Trip Reports (9)
 

Re: Coast to Coast Bike Trail

Post by Dave B »

dirtwatson wrote: From the looks of their western checkpoints, you more or less follow (in general) the I-90 corridor eastbound from the Pacific until approx. the Divide then jog down the Rockies until somewhere near Casper, WY. That whole area is fantastic. You really can't pick a bad way across Idaho from the west.
I'm assuming you mean just through the I90 corridor here, right? Cuz, the Snake River Plain in Southern ID is like one long trailer park.
Make wilderness less accessible.
Top
User avatar
mikefromcraig
Posts: 451
Joined: 11/10/2010
14ers: 53  24 
13ers: 57
Trip Reports (15)
 

Re: Coast to Coast Bike Trail

Post by mikefromcraig »

There is already an excellent bike path that goes basically from Kansas City to St. Louis (Katy Trail) I'm surprised they didn't utilize that.
"I don't believe anyone who says they would prefer to die on a mountain in their 30s than in a hospital in their 90s."
Top
nunns
Posts: 1386
Joined: 8/17/2018
14ers: 43 
13ers: 5
Trip Reports (0)
 

Re: Coast to Coast Bike Trail

Post by nunns »

mikefromcraig wrote:There is already an excellent bike path that goes basically from Kansas City to St. Louis (Katy Trail) I'm surprised they didn't utilize that.
+1. Doesn't quite go all the way west to KC (yet), but it is close, and it is a great path. Seems like if you were aiming to get a project of this scope completed in a reasonable time frame, you would want to use sections that already exist.

Sean Nunn
"Thy righteousness is like the great mountains." --Psalms 36:6
Top

Return to “Trailheads, Roads, and Camping”