Paul Bunyan Trail Travel Timeline

Your Travel Timeline will show expected time of arrival at each location, travel time between locations, and a map of your trip in half-hour increments.

For lists of businesses and services along your route, please use the Paul Bunyan Trail Trip Planner Tool.

Video on how to use the Timeline tool (7 minutes)

1. Choose your starting town and ending (or turn-around) town:

Starting town:

Ending town:

2. Check the Include round trip mileage box if you're doing a round trip ("out and back") ride, rather than a one way (point-to-point) ride:

Include round trip mileage

3. Select the starting time for your ride:

Ride start time: :

4. Select your planned average speed:

Speed: miles per hour
This usually ranges from 8MPH (7.5 minutes per mile) for casual riders to 15MPH (4 minutes per mile) for more seasoned cyclists. Speeds on unpaved surfaces tend to be a bit slower than speeds on pavement.

5. Add break time for each trailhead:

Break time at trailheads: minutes
Break time: This allows you to account for the average stop time at locations along your route. Your timeline will factor in this many minutes of break time at each trailhead/town. Use 0 for straight-through time without stopping.

6. Click the blue Build Timeline button to build your Travel Timeline:

Please only click once; your browser will refresh within 30 to 60 seconds (longer trips and roundtrips may take longer)

Show services as:
Symbols Words Do not show services