Think about how great road biking is in OV & Tucson. You can ride out your garage and go any direction and have hundreds of great rides. Well, the same is true all around Steamboat Springs except it’s done on gravel roads and guess what; hardly any cars. Very beautiful and safe this gravel riding sport! Robert said there are 575 miles of gravel roads in this county. And the scenery is spectacular. Lush green hillsides and fields filled with cows make for a great setting. Luckily Bryce speaks cow so we learned they are a happy lot. As if gravel riding there isn’t already good enough they’ve taken it to the next level to make grave nearly as nice as pavement by applying some chemical to the roads after the heavy machinery takes away any washboards left from last season.
I think I may have died and gone to heaven today. What a wonderful secret these Steamboaters have kept from us.
Thanks again to Bryce and Robert for the expert route finding as we rode around a mountain call the Sleeping Giant. They were the most gracious hosts a cyclist could ask for.
I hope this wasn’t my last trip to the gravel roads of Steamboat Springs