 And they're nearly halfway there. Hamelman says this is a win for small town economies. Cyclists need a lot of food as fuel, places to stay every night. Hamelman says designating new routes doesn't mean updating any infrastructure yet. But with more cyclists on the road, that could happen down the line. The new Wyoming route stretches almost 500 miles from Idaho to Colorado. For the Mountain West News Bureau, I'm Hannah Merzbach.