The Cyclist’s Bucket List

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Moab, Utah

For nearly as long as people have ridden bikes with knobby tyres, those people have brought their bikes to this small town in Eastern Utah, a rust-coloured recreation paradise of sandstone canyons and high desert mountains on the banks of the Colorado River. Encircled by federally managed lands and situated at the cusp of the Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Moab is perhaps most famous for its Slickrock trail, a completely unique experience that winds 16km through a lumpy expanse of Navajo sandstone. The route through the red-rock moonscape, situated on a plateau above town, is discernable only by the white dots spray-painted onto the stone and the line of tyre marks left by the thousands of mountain bikers who’ve come here to ride across the roller-coaster-esque route.

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