As noted by Ken Burns in his PBS documentary series, the national parks are perhaps America’s best idea and one of our country’s greatest gifts to the world. It all started with Yellowstone National Park, which we’ll visit on this great bike tour that also takes us through Yellowstone’s sister to the south, spectacular Grand Teton National Park.
On this ride through history and nature, many of the sights you’ll see are world-famous: the Teton Range, Old Faithful, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, to name just a few. Others are less-known and less-visited, but no less awe-inspiring: Upper and Lower Mesa Falls, for example, where the storied Henry’s Fork of the Snake River tumbles over 100 feet in a dramatic dance of foam and mist off the lip of the Yellowstone Caldera. Quieter beauty also abounds: from cool forests of quaking aspen to eastern Idaho’s endlessly undulating fields of barley, which ripple like ocean waves in the cool Rocky Mountain breeze. We’ll cap off our tour with a stiff ascent up to Teton Pass, but the view from there, and the subsequent descent back down to our start point in Jackson Hole, will leave us with unforgettable memories of a truly spectacular trip.
