Machka 

The Red Deer area is quite nice. The badlands, however, are about 155 kms southeast of here in Drumheller.


Here are some photos of the route from the Icefield Parkway to Red Deer.

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That last one is a little gas station located roughly halfway between Rocky Mountain House and Red Deer ... it's pretty much the only thing out there, so if you need anything, that would be the place to stop.

paul2

My plan is to do the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec in August. I hear it has some fun hills.

flipped4bikes

Lighthouse Trail, Nova Scotia. And maybe circumnavigate Lake Champlain...

CdCf

Checked your route. You've listed Hamar and Gardermoen as being in Denmark. They're both in Norway. Unless you've found a couple of places in Denmark with the same names...

CdCf

Assuming I have the time, and the money, I plan to tour Denmark for two weeks this summer. More specifically, Jylland (Jutland), starting in Frederikshavn, up to Skagen, down the entire western coast, briefly into Germany via Leck and Flensburg, then back into Denmark to follow the eastern coast back up to Frederikshavn. Or possibly in the reverse direction, to take advantage of the prevailing winds during the summer. The reason Frederikshavn will be my starting point, is that there's a ferry connection between Frederikshavn and Gothenburg, where I live. It's only about three hours across.

Total distance is about 1350 km. Planning for 14-16 days, including a couple of rest days. Makes about 90-120 km/day. Should be fine. I will ramp up my long-distance training gradually during the next 2-3 months in preparation. I'm aiming for a date around the second week of June.

hotwheels

Humboldt, CA (maybe Portland , OR) to Tijuana in June-still iffy.

GuitarWizard

It depends.....what are you looking to do? Rhode Island is really boring. The Maine seacoast is pretty scenic, and depending on how much time you have, you can head up the coast quite aways. The other option you may have, since you'll have a car, would be to drive up to Mt. Desert Island (Bar Harbor, Maine/Acadia National Park), park the car, and explore the island. The park loop road would be a blast to explore via bicycle, and you can even climb Cadillac Mtn. if you're not completely wiped out from BMB. I would reserve at least 2-3 days if you wanted to ride around and explore the island. Downtown Bar Harbor is small, packed full of people (getting around on a bike or foot is the way to go), but it's really a cool area. Lots of good places to eat, and plenty of shops around. If you want to stay in a hotel/motel, there's one just outside the main area of Bar Harbor (and offers easy access to Acadia National Park via your bike) that's decent and not highly overpriced. I can't remember the name of it, but my girlfriend probably does....if you're interested, let me know and I'll get it for you. I would make reservations well ahead of time.

If you like hiking, check out the Beehive Trail. It's fairly challenging and steep, but not a long hike (close to the road; right across the street from Sandy Beach in Acadia)....if you're afraid of heights though, you'll want to pass. You can also hike along the rocky shore between Thunder Hole and the Cliffs of Otter....we will actually go out on the rocks and walk, until we reach an inaccessible point, and have to go back up towards the road until we can get back on the rocks. It's a lot of fun....but I wouldn't bring the bike into the park if you wanted to do that.

Yeah.....I like Acadia a lot. It's a nice place. You can also take a high speed ferry over to Nova Scotia if you wanted to take the bike and do some riding over there as well. Lots of options

mmerner

This will be my first tour. A west-then-back-east across wisconsin. Start in waukesha, goto madison, then to Wyalusing state park, up to Sparta, back down to madison, then head home to waukesha. take about a week.

Riderfan_lee

When I lived in Sweden (Uppsala) I spent some time travelling around Denmark visiting family I have over there in Aarhus. When I came back to Sweden I lugged some cheap Danish beer back with me when I took the ferry from Frederikshavn to Goteborg. Never again will I do that. It isn't heavy to pick up at first but it sure is when you have to carry it for a few kilometres.

Denmark is a beautiful country with great beaches. If you can, make sure to bike along the "beach roads" on the west coast of Jyttland. Also, try to make some day trips to some of the islands around Copenhagen if you haven't been to them already. Silkeborg is a nice place to visit as well but it is in the interior of Jyttland. This is one of the few places you will find large hills and lakes in Denmark. There is also a great ice cream place near downtown that makes great ice cream. Skagen is a nice place to visit as well.

CdCf

I grew up just 54 miles from the very tip of Skagen - across the water in Sweden!

Been to Denmark many times on family holidays, but always in a car. Denmark is pretty small as it is, but in a car, it's near microscopic... On my bike, I hope to establish a new mental image of the size of Denmark.

When I was 13-14, we rented a small house near the beach close to Løkken. Nice, but unusually cold for the season that time.

I do plan to ride along the beach roads. Not only to avoid the heavy traffic on the major roads, but also to see more, and for the fresh air sweeping in with the sea breeze.

Unfortunately, my financial situation is as grim as ever, as I'm a poor-ish student. You were in Uppsala, you say, so I assume that was as a student as well.

Erick L

2-3 weeks of hike n' bike in the Laurentian hills of Quebec during fall colors. Several 3-5 day trips during summer.

JT52

Bikerpelli in May. It's a three-day, 142 mile mountain bike ride on the Kokopelli trail from Fruita, CO to Moab, UT. Check it out: www.bikerpelli.com.

JoeLonghair

First week of September heading to Rome to circle around the whole of the south, going down the med coast to the other side to the Adratic coast and back to Rome. 2 weeks. It will be strange as I always travell alone, not out of choice but it always pans out this way, a friend who has heard of my trips got inspired and wanted to join me on my journey. I have always said yeah no probs let me know when you are ready and that the last I hear of them. This one though has enlisted in a gym, been tranning for months and has now bought a new bike. So I have told him we will do a couple of tours in the UK 3 -4 day short ones so we can synchornize ourselves and our kits before we go for the big one.

kesroberts

That will be a great trip!!! We did something similar last May and I wish I was heading back this year.

tannerjones

my buddy and i are going from columbus ohio down to kentucky, where we'll ride part of the trans am adv-cycling route going east until we hit the blue ridge parkway. then we're going to ride the whole blue ridge and ride through the great smokey mountains. then back up to kentucky, then back up to columbus ohio.

i can't wait

Recycle

My wife and I are getting ready to start our first tour ever. We will follow the Grand Illinois Trail, a 535 mile road and trail loop around northern Illinois (https://www.bikegit.org/trails/git/index.htm) Side trips for sight seeing and special events will add another 120 miles.

It will be a credit card trip spread over a number of weekend and long weekend segments.

We’ve been spinning away on trainers all winter and just got the bikes back out on the street two weeks ago. Chicago weather permitting, we ride the first segment April 1.

JoeLonghair

kesroberts: any tips for that part of the trip would be nice..we will be camping all the way.

challengea2z

Hi CdCf yeah i know it's in Norway a typo it should be Genner in Denmark this is what happens when you've loads of maps and you brain is made of pudding. Hope you have a great time riding in Denmark everything from Germany is going to be new to me.

ken cummings

Wilber Hot Springs. Have the wife follow me several hours later in a car.