https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/ Adventures in travel, writing and publishing Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:50:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comments/65 Tue, 08 May 2012 21:56:14 +0000 https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comment-65 Great idea Carla,
I live in Williams (Gateway to the Grand Canyon)AZ. My favorite day ride is a 190 mile loop from Williams to Jerome (‘ghost’ town) to Sedona, Oak Creek Canyon, Flagstaff, Valle and back to Williams. Sometimes, I add 140 miles to include the “Big Hole” Nat’l Park and the best sopapilla’s ever, at the Cameron Navajo Trading Post. This loop is all on scenic secondary roads, with 20 miles of dirt road leading up to Jerome – (even my Rocket III can make it most of the year). I have a map of the route if I could find out how to send it.
See you at the Overland Expo in a few weeks.
Al

]]> https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comments/64 Mon, 07 May 2012 16:46:58 +0000 https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comment-64 The Enchanted Circle New Mexico
Taos -Questa-Red River-Eagles Nest-Angel Fire-Taos
Try it and you’ll like it.

]]> https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comments/63 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:21:23 +0000 https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comment-63 Carla,
I rode in Pocahontas County WV in March (article is posted on motorcycle.com). You can access from Highway 39 or 219 – both amazing riding – then there is more than 1,200 miles of fabuous motorcycle riding. Besides its beauty and the variety of great roads, there’s little RV and truck traffic. And the people are terrific. I’d take it over the Dragon ANY day.

]]> https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comments/62 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:11:51 +0000 https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comment-62 Few know about FM170. That’s great. Big Bend “has” become a destination for sure. Talk soon… Maybe make it “The Best 100 Roads?…”. So hard to get it down to 10! How about from “Boulder” to “Escalante” [Utah!]. That is actually in the… brochures, as an official “Best 10”.

]]> https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comments/61 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:53:43 +0000 https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comment-61 Ara, thanks so much – I already included FM170 but I think I’ll add your description of the valley of the gods road. See you soon!

]]> https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comments/60 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:52:11 +0000 https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comment-60 Here, what we call at “The End of the World”, Southern Texas… way South, “River Road” along the Rio Grande which is our border with Mexico is 60 miles of sheer heavenly paved road. Round trip is a must… From “Terlingua” to “Presidio”, stopping at “Don Jose Bakery” and back to “Terlingua”.
Then of course, a bit “off road”, good enough though for grand ma’s Buick, is the 17 mile loop through “Valley of the Gods”, then on up “Mokey Dugway”, partially paved and carved in the cliffs, and then on 7 miles left to “Muley Point” where a week of vista with “Monument Valley”, “Mexican Hat”, “The Gooseneck” and “Valley of the Gods” all in panoramic view, well, a week might not be enough!
THOSE are some roads!

]]> https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comments/59 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:02:59 +0000 https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comment-59 That’s true, Zohar, I’ve ridden both ways and the view from cliffside is marginally better. However you do have tourists pulling out of the turnouts unexpectely. The other thing is that wind blows south, which is why all the bicyclists start in Washington State and bicycle to Southern California.

]]> https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comments/58 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:16:32 +0000 https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comment-58 Supposedly riding south on Hwy 1 gives better vista b/c the outside lane. I’ve only run it heading north but I can see the sense in the outside lane idea. Might be nice driving towards warmer weather too, if you go for that sort of thing.
Zohar
SF, CA

]]> https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comments/57 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:31:17 +0000 https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comment-57 Ride from the Pacific Ocean (Ft. Clatsop, OR along US30 to Portland, cross over to Washington and ride WA14 to the Tri-Cities, connect with US12 and ride that to LOLO, MT via Lolo Pass.
For a longer ride, follow the above route and others east to Missouri following the path of the Lewis & Clark Trail.
In Eastern Oregon there are so MANY fine routes. Riding US395 is a treat. OR205 from the California Border to OR78 and then to Burns is another. OR20 and 26 are nice plus riding through the John Day fossil beds can be a real treat on OR19, 207, & 74. Then there’s OR86 from Baker City to Oxbow followed by FS39 to Joseph via the Hells Canyon and then up OR3 to WA129 and the Rattlesnake Grade to Lewiston and then up the Spiral Highway to US195.

]]> https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comments/56 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:29:43 +0000 https://carlaking.com/top-10-motorcycle-touring-routes-in-the-usa/#comment-56 Hi Pat. I have done most of that route and agree it’s one of the best rides in the USA.Thanks for reminding me.

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