I’d never heard of the Great Plains Trail until the summer of 2018, when I flipped to the last page of a Backpacker magazine and started reading a story about the trail and its founder, Steve Myers, who lived just a few miles up the road from me in Longmont, Colorado. More route than true trail, Myers had been steadfastly working on the GPT for nearly a decade, happily plotting out the best way to take walkers and bicyclists from far-west Texas to the Canadian border across plains haunted by ghosts of wagon trains, Indians and cattle drives. “This can be done,” Steve said. “This … [Continue reading]
