photo by Aaron Teasdale
In the April/May issue, National Geographic Adventure named biking the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (GDMBR) as the #1 adventure in America! Even if their headline mistakenly calls it the “Continental Divide Trail” (which is a completely different trail), this is great exposure for the longest off-pavement cycling route in the world, which runs over 2,400 miles from Canada to Mexico, chocking up over 200,000 feet in elevation gain along the way.
If you’re looking to tackle this challenging but definitely do-able route on your own this summer, you’re in luck. We’ve just updated and re-published the Great Divide Route maps. You don’t have to bike the entire thing of course and the route is broken into 350-mile map sections (approximately). If you’d like to explore the GDMBR without hauling your stuff up and down the mountains, you may want to check out these two supported tours: Cycle the Divide, Montana and Wheelin’ the Winds (Wyoming).
BTW - Some people even race on the route from Canada to Mexico – self-contained! A grueling prospect chronicled last year in Outside magazine’s “The World’s Toughest Bike Race is Not in France.”
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