Bicycling The Pacific Coast: A Complete Route Guide, Canada to Mexico, 4th Edition

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The Mountaineers Books, Jan 28, 2005 - Sports & Recreation - 272 pages


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* Bicycle touring the Pacific Coast is outlined in one trip or four separate adventures
* Road directions, points of interest, and available restrooms and provisions all built into daily mileage logs
* Elevation profiles and Table of Essentials overview for each day's ride

From Canada to the Mexican border, Bicycling the Pacific Coast is the most popular guidebook to bicycle touring this gorgeous edge of the U.S. Tom Kirkendall and Vicky Spring guide you turn by turn along the length of Pacific Coast Bicycle Route -- all 1816.5 miles. These forty-two suggested daily itineraries (averaging 53 miles each) begin and end at campsites.

Everything you need to know about each day's ride is included: from tunnel-riding strategies to where to buy a new derailer, from one-of-a-kind museums along the way to side trips to lonely lighthouses and towering sand dunes. Cyclists will find a quick-glance Table of Essentials for each daily itinerary, listing availability of bike shops, beach access, hiking trails, youth hostels, and activities while touring through California, Washington, and Oregon.

 

Contents

Table of Essentials
8
Preface
15
Vancouver
17
Vancouver to Roberts Creek Provincial Park
26
Roberts Creek Provincial Park to Saltery Bay Provincial Park
34
Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park to McDonald Provincial Park
43
McDonald Provincial Park to Victoria
50
Inland Route
57
Nehalem Bay State Park to Cape Lookout State Park
120
Beverly Beach State Park to Jessie M Honeyman Memorial
128
Honeyman Memorial State Park to Sunset
135
Humbug Mountain State Park to the California Border
144
Oregon Border to Elk Prairie Campground
154
Elk Prairie Campground to Eureka KOA
160
San Elijo State Beach to the Mexican Border
255
Useful Phone Numbers and Websites
264

Port Angeles to Fairholm Campground
82
Washington Border to Nehalem Bay State Park
114

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About the author (2005)

The daughter of Washington state conservation icon Ira Spring, VICKY SPRING grew up on the trails of the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of numerous hiking and cycling guidebooks for the Western U.S. and Europe.

TOM KIRKENDALL has published a wide variety of books for Mountaineers Books on topics such as long distance bicycling, outdoor family activities and hiking in the Alps. He is also a talented photographer.

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