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You can park for free without any permit in the Cable municipal parking lot.Route Development: See Resources tab below. Find the suggested itinerary under Trail Notes below.
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Between stopping for food, photos, and waterfalls, I typically find 60-80 miles is a full day riding for me. The route is 85% unpaved roads, 14% pavement, and 1% singletrack. Route Difficulty: I would rate the route a 5 out of 10 for difficulty because there are some long, very sandy sections, some rough two-track/ATV trails that often require hike-a-bike due to deadfall, and lots of hills. Don’t let the bike stop you if you want to try. For me, the 29er is a good compromise, but you can do these routes with whatever bike you have. Even a fat bike with 5” tires will still struggle in the sandy sections if it is dry, but a fat bike is overkill for most of the route. Again, I drop the air pressure when I hit the sandy stuff and pump them back up once I am on firmer ground. While gravel tires are doable in the sand and riding a gravel road bike makes for faster going on the majority of the route, I think my Milwaukee Bicycle Company Feral 29er with 2.4” tubeless tires is a better compromise. The gravel road bike is ideal for the vast majority of the waterfall route, but it really does struggle in the sand. I have ridden those sections on my Fyxation Crusher carbon adventure bike with 42 mm tubeless tires, but let the air down to 10 to 12 psi when I hit the sandy sections so I was able to ride. The sandy sections are limited to the Bayfield Peninsula, though. The terrain on these three rides varies from very hilly hard-packed gravel to super soft sand. Ironwood or Watersmeet might make good alternatives. However, you could pick anywhere to start and end your ride. Starting in Cable also lets you ride the CAMBA MTB trail sections of the route right at the start when you’re fresh. Despite having a population of 263, Cable has a good hardware store, grocery store, book store, coffee shop, three great restaurants, and a fancy new bar. I chose to start and end this loop in Cable, Wisconsin, because I live in nearby Seeley, and because they have a free municipal parking lot where you can leave your car or truck, no questions asked. Those who like to plan can make reservations ahead of time. If a campsite was full, I would just go find a dispersed spot in the nearby county or national forest. In the dozens of times I have ridden segments of this loop, I have always found an empty campsite without advance reservations. Bring a paper map to help orient yourself and find alternate routes if you want to skip some Davement.Īll the waterfalls are on the northern part of the loop, but the southern segments of the route are still great riding on a variety of gravel roads, two-track, and MTB trails with very nice campgrounds. These old logging roads and rough ATV/snowmobile trails might require you to hike-a-bike, but that’s part of the fun of bikepacking. Davement is a term my friends coined for a connector I found that helps avoid paved roads but might be too overgrown to actually pedal. The majority of the route is on gravel or sandy forest roads and the remaining miles are on mountain bike trails or Davement. This 382-mile loop takes you past nearly 30 waterfalls, including some larger and well-known falls, some smaller ones, and others that are only known to locals and are hard to find without a POI.