Wild Texas: A Winter Ride to Big Bend
Don Mills
May 6, 2013
When winter drifts into North Texas, those of us who ride year-round seek more agreeable climates, yet never have to leave the state. Big Bend National Park, where the Rio Grande does a U-turn on the border between Mexico and Texas, is very attractive between November and April. During the summer months,... Read more »
Riding The Santa Fe Trail: A Journey Back in Time From Missouri to New Mexico
Bob Jacobs
April 2, 2013
In 1821, everything south of the Arkansas River was Mexico. Newly free from Spain, the Mexican government took new resources north to the provincial capital of Santa Fe and welcomed trade with America—we just had to get there. For centuries, Indian tribes like the Pawnee, Cheyenne and Comanche and... Read more »
Motorcycle Travel Through the Rocky Mountains
Don Metz
October 8, 2012
The high mountain passes of the Rocky Mountains are an incomparable motorcycle touring experience, ringing with the legacy of tens of thousands of gold prospectors who fearlessly blazed trails across them in search of riches. Sunsets over the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains are often a spectacular... Read more »
Colorado Chasms: Riding the other Canyonlands
Kathleen Kemsley
June 4, 2012
(This Favorite Ride was published in the June 2012 issue of Rider Magazine.) Story and photos by Kathleen Kemsley Colorado is best known for its lofty peaks, and rightly so. Those reaching at least 14,000 feet in elevation, known as Fourteeners, number 53 in this not-flat state. A lesser-known side of... Read more »
Going Loopy for New Mexico: Motorcycle Travel Feature
Bill Stermer
April 2, 2012
At an overlook near Cumbres Pass (elevation 10,022 feet) north of Chama, New Mexico, I parked the 2011 Victory Cross Country to take a break. Soon I was joined by a man in a cowboy hat who had climbed out of his pickup truck to stand on a granite outcropping and peer through binoculars. He explained... Read more »
High Adventure in Colorado and Utah
Steve Larsen
February 1, 2012
[This High Adventure in Colorado and Utah was originally published in the September 2011 issue of Rider magazine] Few regions in the United States have more low-traffic miles of wonderful twisty roads and stunning natural beauty than western Colorado and southern Utah. The goal this time is to link great... Read more »
Crossing Western Colorado on Old U.S. 6
Ken Bingenheimer
January 24, 2012
[This Crossing Western Colorado on Old U.S. 6 was originally published in the January 2012 issue of Rider magazine] I’ve eyed it longingly on countless trips on Interstate 70 across the Colorado mountains. The sparsely traveled two-lane winds its way alongside the interstate, at times close by, at... Read more »
New Mexico’s Little Las Vegas Favorite Ride
Laura Melvin
January 24, 2012
[This New Mexico’s Little Las Vegas Favorite Ride was originally published in the January 2012 issue of Rider magazine] The name Las Vegas is generally associated with glitzy gambling in Nevada and Sin City, the fastest-growing city in the United States. But there is another Las Vegas that sits quietly... Read more »
Riding the Best of Arkansas in this Peak-to-Peak Motorcycle Run
Rider Contributor
August 11, 2011
[This Peak-to-Peak Alaskan Motorcycle Ride was originally published in the July 2011 issue of Rider magazine] story and photography by David Bell This group from the Antique Bike Run takes on the tight curves and 2,300-foot elevation change of AR 309 below Magazine. Living in one of the nation’s top... Read more »
Spring in Big Bend, Texas
Laura Melvin
April 8, 2011
story and photography by Laura Melvin Three old riders, two motorcycles and one honeymoon, a week before the wedding. It doesn’t take much to justify a road trip, so Eleanor and I took Lew, her soon-to-be husband, on their honeymoon. We left Carlsbad, New Mexico, on Highway 285, heading to Big Bend... Read more »
