YT TRAVEL GUIDE!
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After 30 years in university teaching and administration, Dr. John Wm. and Alice Ann Ridge spent more than two decades researching and documenting the Yellowstone Trail.
Their work produced one-of-a-kind maps showing the historic route in remarkable detail.
Using the Ridges’ research and excerpts from their book, A Good Road From Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound, we invite you to:
Travel the Yellowstone Trail!
STATE-by-STATE Map Index
STATE-by-STATE Text Index
Washington – Idaho – Montana – North Dakota – South Dakota – Minnesota – Wisconsin – Illinois – Indiana – Ohio – Pennsylvania – New York – Massachusetts
NOTE: YTA State Mile Marker numbers (i.e. WA-000.0) correspond with YTA State Maps.
Total distance of the Yellowstone Trail is approximately 3,600 miles.
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The lines of the Walt Whitman poem, “Song of the Open Road” (1856) communicate a sense of freedom, opportunity, self determination, and absence of obstacles.
While Whitman’s “road” is, literally, a path in the woods, it is often seen, allegorically, as a personal path through life, or even the attainment of democracy.
So come ride with us!
We will search out the many places where travel is still possible along a less used road.
Where there is still a kind of “sense of place” one feels while driving a two-lane road.
- Motorists seem to be more aware of their surroundings.
- They can slow down or stop to experience a scene.
- They can notice cows up close and personal.
- They might see a Burma Shave sign of yesteryear.
- They can talk with locals.
- There may be a calming familiarity in a two-lane road.
Memories are allowed to happen here, so come ride with us on the Yellowstone Trail!
We start in Pioneer Square, Seattle, and drive our way east, select a State to begin.
STATE-by-STATE Index
Washington – Idaho – Montana – North Dakota – South Dakota – Minnesota – Wisconsin – Illinois – Indiana – Ohio – Pennsylvania – New York – Massachusetts