When I looked up trails near here, the first trail that popped up was the Great American Rail-Trail. The preferred route of the Great American Rail-Trail connects 145+ existing rail-trails, greenways and other multiuse paths spanning more than 3,700 miles across the USA from coast to coast. And this 1.6-mile section in Deer Lodge is part of that system.
In the background, the Old Montana State Prison. This was a fast photo stop! Mosquitos descended on me.
The southern trailhead.
Suggestion: when the next a bridge is built, lay the planks perpendicular to the path of a bicycle tire. Riding on parallel cracks or grooves is destabilizing for some cyclists.
The northern trailhead. The Old Montana State Prison.
I rode the trail several times, then rode around the downtown area and eventually ended up riding 11 miles.
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