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Routes / St Regis to Missoula avoiding the Interstate? (with new bike lane update!)
« on: December 25, 2018, 09:38:31 pm »
Planning for a 2020 ride across the country that will route us from St Regis to Missoula. I'm reading all sorts of contradictory stuff online, so I wanted to see if there truly is a way to make it to Missoula from St Regis entirely or almost entirely off the interstate.
Excitedly, there is a new bike lane expansion that will connect from Huson to Wye, around 11 miles total, which makes this route even more attractive. I found this route posted to Ride with GPS, https://ridewithgps.com/routes/7643564, and it seems to show a route all the way to Missoula while avoiding the interstate with the exception of a few miles between Cyr and Alberton and another two miles further east. That seems like an okay compromise for me (around 5 miles total w/o crossing any exit ramps), but I'm wondering if anyone can confirm this route doesn't run into some of the closed sections I've read about in posts that are a few years old?
Excitedly, there is a new bike lane expansion that will connect from Huson to Wye, around 11 miles total, which makes this route even more attractive. I found this route posted to Ride with GPS, https://ridewithgps.com/routes/7643564, and it seems to show a route all the way to Missoula while avoiding the interstate with the exception of a few miles between Cyr and Alberton and another two miles further east. That seems like an okay compromise for me (around 5 miles total w/o crossing any exit ramps), but I'm wondering if anyone can confirm this route doesn't run into some of the closed sections I've read about in posts that are a few years old?