Should be about 75 miles.
If you know Yellowstone National Park, it's a circle route around the edge of the park with several entrances (West, East, North...). We're starting at the West Entrance today (near West Yellowston) and following the road counter-clockwise past Old Faithful and ending on the east side at Lake Yellowstone Hotel, one of the grand old hotels from the railroad days (El Tovar in the Grand Canyon, Lake McDonald Lodge in Glacier National Park, etc). And since "Radio, television, and Internet hook-ups are not available in order to accentuate the natural essence of Yellowstone" I am posting this in advance, will be tomorrow (Sunday) night before any updates for Saturday (Yellowstone) or Sunday (Grand Teton National Park).
Focus is on going slow and seeing things - we may continue past the east side to the north for an out and back ride as the rooms won't be ready until 4:30 so we're either standing around in chamois or riding, might as well ride, maybe make it a century.
Because we're in the park and the National Parks hate bicycles, but love RVs, we have to have a riding escort... several guys that will ride along as paid escorts. They are with us today and then tomorrow they have to van\shuttle us out of the park's south entrance where no bikes are allowed and then from there we'll ride through Teton National Park and into Jackson. Should be a short day of riding but the faster riders (they have been keeping track, and yes, somehow that includes us!) have to wait 2 hours to take the 2nd shuttle trip so it will mean some sitting around in the morning. Beautiful sunny day, couldn't ask for better weather. Expecting a lot of traffic in the park with the summer tourists and a weekend to boot.
Onwards!
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