Region: Arizona
Season: Late March – Mid-May & Late Sept. – Early Nov.
Miles: 143 | Elevation: 6,492′
Days Out: 3-4 | Tire Size: ≥ 2.5 – 3.00″
Difficulty: 4/10 Physical | 5/10 Technical
House Rock Wrap takes bikepackers on a wraparound traverse across House Rock Valley to viewpoints of Marble Canyon. Riders can expect to visit and camp rim-side at Tiger, Bedrock, South Canyon, Buck Farm, and Triple Alcove points.
Region: Montana
Season: May–October
Miles: 180 | Elevation: 11,000’
Days Out: 2-5 | Tire Size: 40mm+
Difficulty: 4/10 Physical | 5/10 Technical
The Gravelly Go-Around has expansive mountain and valley views and generally easy riding, with just enough difficulty and remote feelings to keep things interesting!
Region: Texas
Season: Mid-Spring & Mid-Fall (avoid summer at all costs)
Miles: 1149 | Elevation: 31,000′
Days Out: 12-20 | Tire Size: 43mm to 2″
Difficulty: 7/10 Physical | 5/10 Technical
Texas is BIG. Ride open expanses through legendary ranch country, the largest cotton patch in the world, the edges of the country’s energy corridor, and the rugged Trans-Pecos region, from the Llano Estacado to the Texas Big Bend.
Region: Oklahoma
Season: March-December
Miles: 415 | Elevation: 18,000′
Days Out: 4-8 | Tire Size: 42mm+
Difficulty: 5/10 Physical | 4/10 Technical
Fall in love with the subtle beauty of Oklahoma by traversing lonely and gorgeous red dirt and gravel back roads here in this state, hand-picked by Bobby Wintle born from 15 years of love and devotion to route building for The Mid South.
Region: Kansas
Season: September to November, March to June
Miles: 458 | Elevation: 22,000′
Days Out: 5-8 | Tire Size: 45mm+
Difficulty: 6/10 Physical | 5/10 Technical
Scenic, rugged, and beautiful rock, gravel, and dirt road bikepacking adventures in Kansas. Your travels will take you along the geological spine of the Flint Hills, a distinct ecoregion with the densest coverage of intact native tallgrass prairie in North America.
Region: Nebraska
Season: Spring, Summer, and Fall
Miles: 810 | Elevation: 27,500′
Days Out: 6-12 | Tire Size: 45mm+
Difficulty: 6/10 Physical | 2/10 Technical
The Nebraska segment of the Great Plains Gravel Route starts in one corner of the State and travels across beautiful rural backroads to the opposite corner of the State. The stars at night in Central and Western Nebraska will take your breath away!
Region: South Dakota
Season: May through September
Miles: 327 | Elevation: 17,000′
Days Out: 3-6 | Tire Size: 40mm+
Difficulty: 6/10 Physical | 2/10 Technical
From the rolling plains to the spectacular views through the Black Hills this route is full of rare, rugged, and remote beauty that is best experienced from a bicycle.
Region: North Dakota
Season: Spring, Summer, and Fall
Miles: 363 | Elevation: 14,500′
Days Out: 3-6 | Tire Size: 40mm+
Difficulty: 5/10 Physical | 4/10 Technical
This hopelessly lonely and desolate route is two parts remote, easy rolling, smooth prairie roads and one third stunningly beautiful and rugged red scoria gravel roads diving deep into the North Dakota Badlands’ desert prairie backcountry terrain, where Teddy Roosevelt once said if he had to forget all his memories, save one, he would choose to remember his time in these North Dakota Badlands.
Region: Ontario, Canada
Season: May – October
Miles: 505 | Elevation: 25,000’
Days Out: 4-8 | Tire Size: 50mm – 2.4″
Difficulty: 6/10 Physical | 5/10 Technical
The Butter Tart Express is a beautiful wander through Southwestern Ontario as it explores the dirt roads, forest tracks, forested lands, agricultural sectors, lakes, wandering rivers, and escarpment ridges that populate this region of Ontario.
Region: Great Plains
Season: Spring to Fall
Miles: 3,500 | Elevation: 130,000′
Days Out: 30-60 | Tire Size: ≥ 40mm-2.0″
Difficulty: 5/10 Physical | 3.5/10 Technical
The Great Plains Gravel Route is a 3,500-mile gravel bikepacking route traversing the Great Plains Region of the United States from Mexico to Canada. The route showcases the beauty of the Great Plains, from the rugged Big Bend region of Texas to the rolling Flint Hills of Kansas, and from Nebraska’s prairies to the iconic Black Hills and Badlands of the Dakotas.
