TC To The 'Boat

If I am ever missing look for me hiking somewhere between Traverse City and Steamboat Springs. The trails that connect these two are the North Country trail to the Lewis and Clark Trail to the Nez Prez to the Continental divide trail.

There is a great interactive map at The Partnership for the National Trails System.

Georgia To Morocco

You'd have to cross Canada to Greenland to Norway to the U.K. is all.

See NPR: Hiking The Appalachian Trail -- To Morocco

Every Journey Begins With A Step. Or A Pedal

Via NPR: A National Network Of Bike Trails? It Could Happen

"We’ve put almost all of our resources into roads," LaHood says. "If the commitment when President Eisenhower signed the interstate bill had been to high-speed inner-city rail, we'd be in the same position Europe and Asia are in today."


LaHood is also floating the idea of a nationwide interstate biking system — the two-wheel equivalent of Eisenhower’s highway system.

In getting ready to post this I looked around and found that a group has been preparing for a nationwide bicycle route and even has a numbering system in place.

From the NYT: Highway Group Approves Basic Plan for a Network of Bicycling Routes

The group is the Adventure Cycling Associaton and they have frequent updates at their site for the U.S. Bicycle Route System

Here's a proposed map:

Via BikingBis: Uneven support for U.S. Bicycle Route System

Proposal To Open More N.P. Trails To Bikes

See NYT: Expansion of Biking in Parks Is Proposed