Routes / Two Not Hard-Ball trails - Great American Rail-Trail or the Transamtrail
« on: September 29, 2020, 11:55:41 am »https://youtu.be/OYIWyotllZ0
https://www.railstotrails.org/greatamericanrailtrail/
Anyone planning on this railway to trail path? - familiar/traversed some of the route? It looks like it would be a lot of those awful powdery stone gear-eating paths. It follows the transamerica route around Colorado- maybe? It parallels the Transamerica except it is about 100-200 miles north. I would theorize it is less isolated and goes through more built-up populated areas than the Transamerica- so better chance to get hit with a bat and robbed but almost zero chance of getting hit by a RV like on the transamerica.
I think I might even opt to get overtaken by adult hillbillies on 4 wheelers on the:
Transamtrail
https://www.transamtrail.com/
rather than by town kids on the Rail-toTrail route where I would get hit by a group of teenagers on bikes who want to get into my cool bikepacking bags when they see a lone spandex rider to target.
I was thinking of doing a mostly dreadful gravel path journey and avoiding 80 mile an hour reckless cars and RVs in the Western States this time when I cross America again.
What path do you think is better?