The Olympic Discovery Trail is planned to be a 150-mile trail from Port Townsend, Washington, to Forks, Washington. Currently, the longest completed section runs 23 miles from Sequim, Washington, to Port Angeles, Washington, and it is mostly paved. Thanks to Mark for sending the GPS track of this trail!
Categories: 20 to 50 Miles &All Trails &Hilly &Paved &Rural &Solitude &Under Construction
States: Washington
Last Modified: May 30, 2008
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Elevation profile of route: feet above sea level vs. distance traveled (approximate). Green marker on map above shows which end is designated as start of route.
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I would like to ride this with my road bike but I am concerned about the comment “mostly paved”. Can you clarify how much is not paved and can the 23 mile stretch even be done on a road bike??? Thanks. Mike
All the information I got came from the web site (see link in the text of this listing). So, I am not sure… I haven’t seen the trail in person. From their web site, it looks like all but a very short piece of this 23 miles is paved.
–Jennifer
I do this trail all the time. It’s great! paved all the way from Port Angeles to Blyn–a few miles east of Sequim. I don’t think it is 20 miles between PA and Sequim. It should be about 18miles.
Jennifer,
I do gps routes all the time, you can do really good ones on google earth/google maps.
1)Google Earth is easier to deal with so I use it. To start build a route.
2) Save the GE route as a .KML file.
3) Go to http://www.gpsies.com/convert.do where you convert the KML to a GPX format. On the options for the conversion, shown by clicking the options button down at the bottom, select add/replace elevation (it will fill it in for you) and track simplification.
4) I choose GPX track for output, as my Garmin Edge 705 works with that the best. The track files tend to be big, by there is a limit on the Edge for waypoints of 100 per route so I have to us a track.
6) Download the GPX into the GPS, GPX is a standard format and just about any GPS will handle it.
7) select it on the Edge and then ride..
Let me know if you have any questions…
I have been planning my routes like this for about a year. I planned a 4 day 500 mile route like this, broken down into 120,120,97,146 mile legs. Some of the routing was complex, like routing from the Golden Gate Bridge to Marina, CA on the 1st leg. Lots of turns to stay on the side roads and off the freeways to get out of that town and at the same time see lots of cool sights.
ed
We rode this trail from Sequim Bay State Park to Port Angeles and back for a round trip of 50 miles. It is very easy on a road bike even though there is a section (less than 1 mile) of hard-packed dirt with some gravel about 4 miles east of Port Angeles.
The trail continues east about 3-4 miles from Sequim Bay State Park and several miles west of Port Angeles out onto the Ediz Hook but we did not continue to the far eastern and western ends of the trail.
This is a wonderful trail. See photos at http://mom.floft.net/index.php?id=168