On our drive to St. George where we are camping for two weeks, we passed Snow Canyon State Park and made a note to get out there to check it out. There are a multitude of paved bike paths all over the area and we made good use of them. Snow Canyon State Park is …
AllTrails showed a hike, ride, or drive out to a Giant Sequoia tree near where we are camping in Southern Utah so we routed a ride to see it. The rough dirt forest service road leaves from the interstate at Browse, Utah. We parked just off the highway and hopped on our mountain bikes to …
Our last ride in the Great Basin area went up into the hills and Black Horse Canyon towards Mount Moriah. It was purely exploratory because we knew nothing about the roads. It was mostly a success. The gravel/dirt was pretty good for the most part as we headed up into the canyon. As the story …
There isn’t much mountain biking on singletrack in the area of Great Basin National Park, but there are a lot of dirt roads that go up into different mountains and canyons. We rode Osceola Road and around Sacramento Pass on previous days, this time we road out and back into the park on the dirt …
There isn’t much of the historic town left, be we rode our bikes out and back on dirt/gravel to see Osceola. It was a straightforward ride climbing out and descending on the way back. After a mind boggling 12 mile gold-bearing quartz vein was discovered in 1872, a placer mining community took form in this …
Our new two week spot by Great Basin National Park provides a lot of exploring opportunities. There is a great short rocky < 3mile hike with some spectacular views, and a lot of dirt/gravel roads to explore too. We’re camping at 6727′ but these mountains are high! Wheeler Peak is 13,065. Not a lot of …
On a cool morning we rode what we call the Bridle Trail Loop. This was not our first time doing this loop so we knew what to expect. The trail follows the Barlow Road – part of the Oregon Trail followed by pioneers in wagon trains coming to Oregon and wanting to avoid rafting their …
Washington has a few long distance paved or gravel routes and we rode almost all of the Olympic Discovery Trail over the summer. This time we rode a section of the Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail. The full trail is a 212-mile trail that goes from Cedar Falls in the .Cascade Mountains to the …
There are so many little port towns around the Olympic Peninsula. We visited Port Townsend earlier in the summer and had a great time. This time we were in the area to ride part of the Discovery Trail and around Fort Worden. The Larry Scott section of Discovery Trail from Milo-Curry Trailhead into downtown Port …
There are so many places in this great big country that still feel raw. Sure, logging is big up on the Olympic Peninsula and the land has been manipulated and utilized. There are mazes of gravel logging roads crisscrossing the mountains, and those make for good gravel exploring. This ride wound around some of them …