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This Great Roads section focuses on local and international motorcycle rides, roads and travel experiences from the editors of Rider magazine and our contributors. The articles have been broken down by region to help you find stories about a particular area more easily.

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Wild Texas: A Winter Ride to Big BendEl Tanque: A Russian Conquest of Latin AmericaMotorcycle Travel in the AppalachiansThe Blue Ridge Parkway from the BackseatEdelweiss Bike Travel Touring Center AlpsThe Haul Road: A Motorcycle Tour of Alaska’s Dalton HighwayCarving up Southeastern OhioMontana Motorcycle Rides: Exploring the Northwestern CornerExploring the Oregon CoastMotorcycle Riding in Death ValleyMotorcycle Ride in Alamaba, Mississipi, Louisiana and Texas
Wild Texas: A Winter Ride to Big Bend
El Tanque: A Russian Conquest of Latin America
Motorcycle Travel in the Appalachians
The Blue Ridge Parkway from the Backseat
Edelweiss Bike Travel Touring Center Alps
The Haul Road: A Motorcycle Tour of Alaska’s Dalton Highway
Carving up Southeastern Ohio
Montana Motorcycle Rides: Exploring the Northwestern Corner
Exploring the Oregon Coast
Motorcycle Riding in Death Valley
Motorcycle Ride in Alamaba, Mississipi, Louisiana and Texas

Features

West Cornwall’s covered bridge over the riffling Housatonic River dates from 1864.

Motorcycle Tour of Connecticut: A Taste of Nutmeg

Connecticut is a compact state, some 60 miles wide by 100 miles across. When I studied a map of this coastal New... Read more »

The Sierra Del Carmen Mountains at sunset on the east side of Big Bend National Park.

Wild Texas: A Winter Ride to Big Bend

When winter drifts into North Texas, those of us who ride year-round seek more agreeable climates, yet never have... Read more »

Where the buffalo roam at Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota.

Great Roads: South Dakota

The following is an excerpt from the article Connecting the Dakotas: The Long Way Around North and South, originally... Read more »

Jim Key took a moment to mourn the loss of his 1971 BMW R75/5 after the High Park Fire in Colorado destroyed his home last June.

Rising From the Ashes

Motorcycling is everything to Jim Key. He got his first motorcycle at age 10 and makes a living doing what he loves,... Read more »

North Carolina Route 28 carves its way south to Highlands through some of the oldest mountains on earth.

Great Roads: North Carolina

The following is an excerpt from the article Of Ribs and Roads: Barbecue and Byways in the Carolina Mountains printed... Read more »

Recent Comments

  • on Motorcycle Tour of Connecticut: A Taste of NutmegGive it three days, although I started from Albany, NY.
  • on Motorcycle Tour of Connecticut: A Taste of NutmegWow that was an impressive ride. Did you do all of that in one day? How many miles and how long did it take you? I live in Stamford and the riding by me is not that good, up by Kent thought it get's really nice and Litchfield area is very nice
  • on Southwest Touring Ride on a 2013 Victory Vision TourWow what a ride, want a vision bad. The looks are like the Jetsons.take it in one PC. At a time and you'll get the big picture of what a cool bike this is. All it needs is jet fuel in the tank, I'm guessing by 2020 they'll all look this way, victory's just ahead of the times a little bit.
  • on Day-Tripping on the Lincoln Highway in IowaThank you Axzi! Sometimes spell check doesn't quite work right as it seems to have thought Colo was the abbreviation for Colorado. Our mistake. Thank you for letting us know. The change has been made.
  • on Day-Tripping on the Lincoln Highway in IowaPlease change your descriptions under the photos of Niland's Cafe and the intersection of the Lincoln and Jefferson Highways to indicate that it is located near the town of Colo, Iowa, not Colorado.

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