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| Portions of Backcountry Discovery Routes in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. |
This blog post's title quotes a comment on another post on X (formerly Twitter) about the Backcountry Discovery Routes. These run throughout the West, plus part of New England, and are a mixture of off-pavement and two-lane blacktop routes for multi-day motorcycle trips. (Not for big highway cruiser bikes, obviously.)
There is the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail for hikers and backpackers. Last summer, a friend of mine rode a good piece of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, which routes riders on back-country trails and gravel roads, for the most part, but with some blacktop routes when necessary. He rode from northern Arizona to Salida, Colorado, with all his gear on the bicycle. Some of the "trails" he photographed in Arizona were more like rock-hopping.
So it seems like GDMBR and the BDR might conceptually overlap, except that parts of the former are probably designated as "no motor vehicles."
I can tell from the maps that the BDR overlaps some designated Colorado Scenic Byways, which also are mostly two-lane blacktop. The BDR maps have more information on food, lodging, etc.
The user who posted on X responded to the comment quoted above with "Most don’t leave their basement we’re good."
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