Pacific Crest Bicycle Trail
Sports - Crescent City, California, United States
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Pacific Crest Bicycle Trail Details
The Pacific Crest Bicycle Trail (PCBT) is a 2,500-mile-long, road-based bicycle touring route from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. It was designed to closely parallel the Pacific Crest Trail and the two trails cross 27 times as they pass through the states of Washington, Oregon, and California.The PCBT passes through the North Cascades National Park, Crater Lake National Park, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Yosemite National Park, Kings Canyon National Park, and Sequoia National Park and is generally routed through the Cascades and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges. The route attains its highest elevation at Tioga Pass in California at approximately 10,000 feet.Both paved and unpaved roads are used, although most are paved. In several sections where an unpaved road is used, a paved road alternative is offered.The route passes through terrain as varied as thick evergreen forests, apple orchards, wide river canyons, grasslands, glaciated high Sierra canyons, and high desert.The PCBT was first publicized by Bil Paul in his 1990 guidebook Pacific Crest Bicycle Trail, which is now out of print.
