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Highway 44 South Dakota
This road runs more or less parallel to the interstate and it’s just a two lane motorcycle type highway. You’ll see a few big rigs but it’s oh so very quiet. Also decent free or cheap camping in a few “city” (lol) parks along the way .. it’ll take you clear across the state east and west all the way from the badlands to just south of Sioux Falls, SD . If traveling across SD this is the way to go. I rode it in its entirety in 2012 on a cross country ride. 10/10 would recommend if going through the state.
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There's just so much to choose from. I'm lucky enough to be able to ride about 30 minutes and be on the Blue Ridge parkway.
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This section of PCH between Ventura and Santa Barbara is pretty nice.
Part of it is on a frontage road next to ocean and part is on a separated bike path. |
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I rode north Cascade highway, going to the sun, and chief Joseph scenic byway as part of a cross country ride in 2008. All were stunning, all in different ways. Cascade highway was probably the coolest because it took multiple days and was early in my journey so I hadn't already seen anything so mesmerizing.
I also rode nearly 100 miles on a 4 lane highway through South Dakota. That was not mesmerizing. Neither were the endless corn fields and headwinds of Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois. |
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Skyline/Blue Ridge and it's not even close. The lookouts are unparalleled. But yeah, lots of traffic and not a lot of room. Brutally hilly, esp if you take the turnoff for Mt. Mitchell. However the air is utterly beautiful - rich pine mountain air. The clouds squeeze over the tops of the mountain and envelope you. Just make DAMN sure you have enough water - there isn't so much as a gas station nearby in some of the sections.
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US 550/Million-Dollar Highway between Durango/Silverton/Ouray CO is an amazing ride in either direction.
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It’s gorgeous and fun to ride.
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The Durango to Silverton leg definitely gets your vert in, too.
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Another fan of the Cabot Trail
PICT3727_xx by Dan Murphy, on Flickr PICT3650_x by Dan Murphy, on Flickr |
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The general advice to avoid reservations extends far beyond the worlds of cycling and it deserves its own thread. Its a deep, dense and sad; a heavily loaded topic tbh; but I will say most people that offered that advice to me, a cyclist, weren't cyclists themselves and I doubt they could understand how much harder physically it could be to just go a longer distance around it. |
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Blue Ridge Parkway
Spur of the moment solo biking trip several years ago.
Unforgettable.
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