Bikepacking Routes

Beginning beneath Seattle’s Space Needle, Segment 1 (Columbia) of the Great American Wheel Route traces a historic path over dramatic transitions from dense city streets to lush forests and from sagebrush steppe to rolling wheat fields. Riders will climb through the Cascade Mountains on abandoned rail grades, pass through the legendary Snoqualmie Tunnel, and confront the raw solitude of the Columbia Basin. It’s a powerful opening chapter of a transcontinental adventure...