Originally Posted by
eappleton
My wife and I are riding west using pieces of the Transam. We're riding the Kary Trail in Missouri right now. This forum has been great in helping us piece together routes. We are taking the Transam across Kansas to Pueblo, CO. At that point, we plan to ride up to Denver/Boulder/Ft Collins and reconnect with the Transam afterwards.
So, I'm looking for a route from Pueblo to Denver (very busy corridor) and then from the Denver area to Walden, CO or somewhere farther along the route (also challenging because of the mountains).
Rather than working your way south from Clinton to pick up the TransAm across Kansas, have you considered heading straight from there toward Denver? While the AC maps across Kansas are pretty detailed, there's not many high points across the state. (Sorry, Kansans, the people are the best part of Kansas!) I think you could pick some state roads that parallel I-70 (+/- 50 miles) and do just about as well as the official TransAm route.