The Transamerica Bicycle Trail crosses the United States from coast to coast, starting at the Pacific Ocean in Astoria, Oregon and ending in Yorktown, Virginia. It travels through 10 states east to west, it travels down the Oregon coast before veering inland, over the Cascades and into Idaho and Montana, turning south at Missoula and travelling through Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons in Wyoming, crossing the continental divide over the Rockies in Colorado, descending to the great plains of Kansas and Missourian midwest, briefly traversing the southern tip of Illinois and heading into the Appalachia it spans the entire width of Kentucky, and the final state of Virginia ending at Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
The route is was originally mapped in 1976 for the bicentennial of the United States and is one of the most popular cross country bike routes in America, following lower trafficked roads. End to end it’s 4,200 miles and an awful lot of feet of climbing. At a rate of 60-70 miles a day it should take around 60-70 days, or a little over 2 months.
