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The American Discovery Trail creates a coast to coast route across the USA connecting people with rural and urban areas, wilderness, desert mountains and forests, with other trails, and with each other.
The American Discovery Trail is generally split into four regions, Eastern, Central – Northern Route, Central – Southern Route, Western. Data books and GPX files describing the routes are available through the ADTS store. The northern route is 4,834 miles and the southern 5,057.
The American Discovery Trail (ADT) is a new breed of national trail — part city, part small town, part forest, part mountains, part desert — all in one trail. Its 6,800+ miles of continuous, multi-use trail stretches from Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware, to Pt.
The American Discovery Trail begins (or ends) with your feet in the Pacific Ocean at Point Reyes National Seashore in California. From there, it traverses California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado, where in Denver it splits into two routes.
The American Discovery Trail is about 6,800 miles long, but this figure combines the totals of the two routes across the Midwest. The coast-to-coast distance using the northern route (through Chicago) is 4,834 miles.
The ADT is a trail in the sense that it is a route from one place to another, but it is not a single entity, it is composed of many other trails and some connecting directions between them. You cannot expect to leave the coast and follow the ADT to the other coast without using other named trails.
The American Discovery Trail enters Utah on Kokopelli’s Trail, which starts at Loma, Colorado, and winds for 146 miles through desert sandstone and shale canyons to Moab, Utah. The trail crosses open, uninhabited land and temperatures can exceed 110 degrees at times.
The American Discovery Trail route through Colorado, the Centennial State, offers a great variety of challenges and spectacular scenery. The ADT crosses the eastern plains of Colorado following the paths of explorers and pioneers in their wagons painted with “Pikes Peak or Bust!”.
Iowa: Hardin County portion of Iowa River’s Edge Trail to receive $2 million grant. May 1, 2024 Samantha Szesciorka. https://www.timesrepublican.com/news/todays-news/2024/04/hardin-county-portion-of-iowa-rivers-edge-trail-to-receive-2-million-grant. Michigan: Zachary Foor plans to walk more than 5,000 miles across America. Here’s why
The American Discovery Trail offers a diverse, interesting, and challenging route for hikers, bikers, and other trail users as they cross Indiana on either the northern or the southern route of the ADT, which together total 616 miles.