CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 389 km round trip from Bozeman - roughly 5 h 49 in the saddle. On the way it passes Yellowstone National Park and back through Yellowstone National Park. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Bozeman lies in the Gallatin Valley, a broad, flat bowl of farmland at about 4,800 feet, ringed by mountains on every side. The Bridger Range stands to the northeast, the Gallatin Range to the south and the Tobacco Roots to the west, and snow stays on the high summits well into summer. The town started in the 1860s as a supply point for miners and settlers, named after John Bozeman, who blazed a trail from Wyoming to the Montana gold fields through the hunting grounds of the Sioux, a route that led to war.
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Bozeman is where the day begins. Next is Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone was the world's first national park, set aside by the United States in 1872, and the first thing to understand is that the ground here is alive. The park sits on a huge volcanic caldera left by eruptions that blew out an enormous chunk of the Rockies, and the heat still rising from below drives roughly half of the world's geysers, along with hot springs, mud pots and steaming vents. Old Faithful, in the south-west of the park, is the famous one, going off at fairly regular intervals through the day.
Read the complete Yellowstone National Park write-up.
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Yellowstone National Park comes up 92 km in. Next is Yellowstone National Park.
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Read the complete Yellowstone National Park write-up.
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185 km in you reach Yellowstone National Park. Next is back through Yellowstone National Park.
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Read the complete Yellowstone National Park write-up.
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back through Yellowstone National Park, late in the day. Next is Bozeman.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bozeman write-up.
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Back at Bozeman. That is the ride.
Bozeman → Yellowstone National Park is 185 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Yellowstone National Park → Bozeman is 185 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.