Iron County Record | 1958-08-28 | Page 10 | Teenagers Employ Bicycles to See America and Canada

Teenagers Employ Bicycles to See America and Canada Thirty-four teenagers from the East Coast were In Cedar City recently for a short period of time, as they passed through on a rather unusual bicycle tour of the United State's and Canada. Ranging in age from 14 to 17 years of age, the 34 teen-agers were in Cedar City on the return trip to New York City, where they started. They left New York on June 10 and expect to arrive Iback at their starting point on August 28 after traveling a total to-tal of 12.000 miles. All of that is not on bikes, however. They have a truck along to carry their equipment over the rougher and longer distances dis-tances while they use public conveyances. con-veyances. They will, however, cover co-ver nearly 1,00 on bikes before the trip is over, they related. Leaving New York their first major stop was at Niagara Falls. From there they trj.eled into Canada and visited at Banff, Can. They traveled across Canada to Vancouver and then down the West Coast of the United States through the cities of Portland, Ore.; San Francisco and Los Angeles. An-geles. Prior to arriving in Cedar City they had visited the north rim of the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park and Bryee Canyon National park. The group boarded a train at Cedar City enroute north to Salt Lake City. From Salt Lake they will go on to Yellowstone National Park, Denver and Chicago. Chi-cago. The "group when bicycling, have covered a varied number of miles per day. They have gone ps short a distance as 10 miles on bicycles and have covered as much as 75 miles per day with an average of 30, they stated. All in all the tour incltidcr; 72 days. I