It was an excellent choice to leave Glacier a day early and bicycle The Hiawatha Trail.   One of my goals is to ride a bicycle trail in every state.  Today I knocked off two states on one trail.  The Hiawatha Trail starts in Taft, Montana and 15 miles later in Pearson, Idaho is the shuttle trailhead.   We were shuttled back to Roland, Idaho and rode back through the 1.7 mile Taft Tunnel to the East Portal Trailhead in Taft, Montana.  We really crossed the line this time 🙂    Was this fun???  Yes!!!

Ten tunnels and 7 sky high steel trestles with a gentle 1.6% average grade that drops 1,000 ft over it’s 15 miles length was  fun, thrilling and loaded with fantastic scenery.  This is a mountain bike trail.  Most of the trail is rough gravel and the tunnels hard packed dirt.  It was challenging,  but the gentle down hill slope made it VERY enjoyable.

We are spending the night in Pinehurst, Idaho at the By The Way Campground.  It’s directly across the road from one of the Trailheads for the 73 mile Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes recreational trail.  We did not bike it,  but walked E T for a few miles to a doggie dipping creek.  If I were 20 years younger I would add this trail to my list of to do’s.   I would never have imagined Idaho would be the biking meca that it is.

The Grands are having an awesome time traveling in the RV.  We are so glad that they are enjoying the views.  Just another plus to RV traveling 🙂

Yes, they are seat belted!