Exploring and being immersed in wild places, especially areas that are new to me, is what inspires nearly all of my adventures, big and small. I spent five years developing bikepacking routes for Bikepacking Roots, I’ve thru-ridden the longest bike-legal backcountry trails in North America, and my mental list of trails I’ve seen on maps but not yet with my own eyes is endless.
The routes and guides linked via the map interfaces below are among the most memorable rides I’ve done (many of which are self-created routes). Most of these are multi-day rides, but there are also quiet a few backcountry singletrack day ride options. The link associated with each route will either take you to the route in Ride with GPS or to a comprehensive route guide on this site.
You can find even more over here on the Backcountry MTB page on Ride with GPS – those are routes Kait Boyle and I created during the Industry Nine – Pivot Pro Backcountry Team days (2021-2025).
Click on any route to see the guide!
Interested in touring Alaska’s Iditarod National Historic Trail? Here’s a lengthy guide designed to be a starting point for your planning, and know that GPS data for winter trails may be accurate one winter and wildly inaccurate the next . . . or the trail may not even be in!
Click on any route to see the guide!