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Analysis of Bikepacker Spending Habits
Bikepacking Roots is launching a series of initiatives to quantify a range of the economic impacts of the bikepacking community. This is critically important for better understanding the positive financial impacts that we have on communities and services along popular bikepacking routes. If you have 5 minutes to spare, we would greatly appreciate if you would complete our "Spending Habits of Bikepackers" Survey to help with this study. |
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Advocacy. Access. New Routes.
We’re excited to announce that Courtney Zotts Binary Bicycles titanium frame that we're giving away as part of our summer membership drive that wrapped up last week. And we're even more excited to hear that Courtney is planning to ride her new frame on the southern part of the Wild West Route while on a break from school this next year! We'd also like to welcome and thank everyone who joined Bikepacking Roots during our membership drive! Our membership has now topped 4,000 individuals and continues to grow steadily, strengthening our ability to advocate for the bikepacking community. |
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The Wild West Route has been released!
Bikepacking Roots' Wild West Route (WWR) showcases the wild and public lands of the American West. At more than 2,700 miles in length, the WWR is among the longest bikepacking routes in the world. It's development involved collaboration with public lands managers, private landowners, Navajo Nation Department of Parks and Recreation, and 50+ bikepackers. The WWR is more than 80% dirt, ranging from graded gravel to seldom-traveled dirt roads to rough 4x4 tracks. It offers bikepackers a remote, rugged, expedition-scale riding experience balanced with resupply options in small communities generally spaced a few days apart. Nearly 70% of the WWR's length is on public lands, passing through 18 National Forests, 6 National Parks and Monuments, 4 areas with BLM National Conservation Lands designation, and 2 tribal parks. Bikepacking Roots is proud to offer a suite of resources for the route, including a comprehensive 82-page print or digital route guidebook with maps and conservation/public lands educational content, GPS data for navigation with ~1500 waypoints (services, water, campgrounds, etc.), and a smartphone app. |
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From our 2018 Bikepacking Community Survey
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Learn more about the history of U.S. public lands Bikepackers in the United States absolutely rely on public lands as a crucial component of the bikepacking experience so many of us seek. But few of us know much about how unique these public lands are from a global perspective, nor why we still have so many millions of acres of land within the public domain. The more that we, the general public and users of public lands, know about the history of just how this complex fabric of public domain lands came to be, the more effectively we can engage in dialogue about the current and future role and fate of such lands. Click here to learn more about this history. |
Our Mission
Bikepacking Roots is dedicated to the support and advancement of bikepacking
and the conservation of the landscapes through which we ride. 
Current Projects
We have a series of ambitious projects already in progress, across the country (literally), and on the horizon. Click above to learn more.
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Route DevelopmentCreating high quality, themed, and carefully scouted bikepacking routes with detailed route guides is one of our primary goals - ranging from weekend loops to expedition-scale epics.
Regional Advisors
Our eyes and ears on the ground , these experienced bikepackers and explorers will help with our route development and advocacy efforts all across the United States.
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Advocacy & Conservation
We advocate for backcountry trail access, public lands, & promote landscape conservation through education. Click above to learn more about our stances on some of these issues.
Who We Are
Bikepacking Roots is led by a group of long-time bikepackers and cycling and conservation advocates.
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Get your Bikepacking Roots gear! See our donation-based gift shop for a selection of Bikepacking Roots apparel and other gear like stickers, public lands calendars, and the Wild West Route guidebook. We'll be adding a few more items to this in the coming months, so check back occasionally for the latest items. |
A selection of our Routes
Wild West Route
The 2,700-mile-long Canada-to-Mexico epic that links together remote dirt roads and rough 4x4 tracks through Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona, showcasing the vast expanses of wild and public lands in the Intermountain West.
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Plateau Passage
Arid peaks, lush plateaus, deep canyons, slickrock, and stunning mountains - 1,200+ miles of rugged, isolated, and challenging riding that takes you from the low Mojave Desert, across the peerless Colorado Plateau, and into the high Rocky Mountains. This is an adventure route in the truest sense of the words.
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Colorado 14ers Loop
Towering mountains, cheery small towns, abundant flowy singletrack, and the option to tackle as many as 7 bike-legal 14ers along the way - a classic choose-your-level-of-challenge route in the heart of the Colorado Rockies.
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Our 2018 Annual Report - sharing what you helped make possible
As we near the close of our second year, we want to share with the our members, supporters, and the broader bikepacking community what we've accomplished in 2018. In this report, we share our accomplishments in the route development, advocacy, education, and organizational growth realms, as well as showing how we've stretched the dollars that have been contributed to Bikepacking Roots. And we share our goals as we look toward 2019 and beyond. |
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The Colorado Plateau Landscape Guide
The Colorado Plateau Landscape Guide, authored by Kaitlyn Boyle, is a resource for bikepackers to learn about and connect with the Colorado Plateau region and its interconnected landscape layers. Topics covered include
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Bikepacking Roots is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by long-time bikepackers with the mission of increasing the availability of and access to the bikepacking experience and the conservation of the landscapes through which we ride.
Our efforts are focused on developing bikepacking routes, advocating for public lands and backcountry mountain bike access, and promoting landscape conservation through advocacy and education. The larger our membership, the more influential our collective voice becomes in advocacy, partnerships, and many other initiatives. Members also receive our quarterly e-newsletter.
Our efforts are focused on developing bikepacking routes, advocating for public lands and backcountry mountain bike access, and promoting landscape conservation through advocacy and education. The larger our membership, the more influential our collective voice becomes in advocacy, partnerships, and many other initiatives. Members also receive our quarterly e-newsletter.
Membership is free!
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Our Corporate Partners
Bikepacking Roots thanks our corporate partners who believe in our mission, have a desire to support the bikepacking community, and have helped our young organization accomplish so much in such a short time. Please consider supporting these companies, and if you see any of the good folks from these companies out on the trail, please share your appreciation for what they do to support our community. |
