Medicine Bow Trail – Wyoming

We”re off on a trip in search of cooler places (than the 100+ degrees at home) to ride. Today we checked another state off the map.
The Medicine Bow Trail is a 23 mile long rail-to-trail 30-some miles outside of Laramie, Wyoming. We rode the trail today, staying in Laramie and driving to the Northern most trail head Dry Park. From there we rode to the trail”s end the Pelton Creek trail head near the Colorado border and back for a total of 46 miles. The trail has a variety of gravel type surfaces. I rode it on my hybrid which was difficult in a few spots due to soft gravel. The trail has one short detour at the community of Fox Park where the route takes a road to bypass a segment of the former railroad that”s still under litigation. This was a nice trail with a lot of beautiful scenery and wildlife. Much better than we were expecting. We spotted deer, a moose and a fox. The only other riders we seen on the trail the entire day were a group of 3 near the lake.
The only downside to this ride was that the mosquitoes were terrible and we forgot repellent. We couldn”t linger long anywhere or we would be eaten up. After the ride we ate a very good dinner at Corona Village