TX Big Bend Dualsport

[Twist]

Great reporting. This is still on our bucket list for places to ride but let me ask you this: if we rode bikes like my GS from here to there and back, how much of the riding there would be perhaps beyond the difficulty we'd want to tackle? I know that's a hard question to answer and almost entirely based upon rider skill but still would love to hear your thoughts? Riding in deep sand is something we've got a fair bit of experience with after doing the SE Adv ride through the Appalachacola SF and Tate's Hell in the Florida panhandle (and more than a few miles in Nevada on the TAT) but loose rock just sucks. We just did the Chattahoochee BDRx in N. Georgia and there was a lot of rocky two track that was covered in wet leaves that made that ride a whole 'nuther thing than what the BDR folks showed in their video.

[YAMPOL]

Looks like it was a great trip! Thanks for posting. I don't ride as much as I would like to as I get older and more out of shape, but enjoy looking at others adventures.

[Bucho]

Great reporting. This is still on our bucket list for places to ride but let me ask you this: if we rode bikes like my GS from here to there and back, how much of the riding there would be perhaps beyond the difficulty we'd want to tackle? I know that's a hard question to answer and almost entirely based upon rider skill but still would love to hear your thoughts? Riding in deep sand is something we've got a fair bit of experience with after doing the SE Adv ride through the Appalachacola SF and Tate's Hell in the Florida panhandle (and more than a few miles in Nevada on the TAT) but loose rock just sucks. We just did the Chattahoochee BDRx in N. Georgia and there was a lot of rocky two track that was covered in wet leaves that made that ride a whole 'nuther thing than what the BDR folks showed in their video.

I think you could ride most of the dirt roads in the National Park.
You could start with the easier ones and go from there. Old Maverick Rd and Dagger Flats were probably the easiest. Glen Springs was fairly easy and the east side of River Rd.
And some of the little deadend roads like Croton Springs was easy.
The beginning of Grapevine is easy, the last two miles is harder but I dont remember loose rock (but its also an out and back, so you could just turn around before the end too).
The northern end of Old Ore Rd had some of the rockiest stuff (not a lot but several short section that were usually up or down). If you start on the southern end you could easily ride up to the turn off for the Earnst Tinaja, (I think most of the people we saw had done that).
The west end of River Rd is most harder bc of short sandy washes. I recall one spot a few hundred meters long that was a rocky wash/dry creek bed that had some rocks.
I dont remember much loose rock on Black Gap. I think if you take your time and pick your lines its not really hard.

I cant give as good info on the state park. The main park rd is no problem. A few other pieces were also pretty easy.
BUT there were other longish sections that was nothing but loose rocks. I wouldnt want to do it on a big bike.

National Park “yes”
State Park “no, not much”