Category: Best Road Trips
-
Trail Ridge Road by Motorcycle: Riding the October Window
Rocky Mountain National Park stops requiring a timed entry reservation on October 12, 2026. Trail Ridge Road does not close on October 12, 2026. Those are two different dates, and the gap between them is the best week or two of motorcycle riding in northern Colorado. Almost every guide to riding Trail Ridge tells you…
-
Red Rock Canyon Timed Entry: a 3-Day Las Vegas Motorcycle Loop
On October 1, Red Rock Canyon starts turning riders away at the gate. Not because the road is closed. Because you didn’t book a few dollars’ worth of reservation on a website nobody told you about. Every “best motorcycle rides near Las Vegas” page puts the Red Rock Scenic Drive at number one, and almost…
-
Big Bend in Winter: A 4-Day Itinerary for 2026-27
For most of the past two years, every Big Bend article carried the same warning: book now, because the Chisos Basin shuts down in 2026 for a two-year rebuild and you won’t get another chance until 2028. That advice is dead. The Park Service has pulled that project as designed, and it says the closures…
-
Blue Ridge Parkway in Fall: A 3-Day Plan for 2026
The three-day Blue Ridge Parkway itineraries sitting at the top of Google right now will drive you straight into a road closure. Most of them send you north out of Asheville to Crabtree Falls at milepost 339.5, then on to Linville Falls at milepost 316. In October 2026 Crabtree Falls is unreachable, sealed inside a…
-
White Mountains Fall Foliage Road Trip: A 3-Day Loop
Most fall foliage guides to the White Mountains are wrong on two counts, and both cost you money. The Cannon Mountain aerial tramway, the ride every New Hampshire itinerary tells you to book, stopped running in October 2025 and will not be back for this season or the next two. And the Mount Washington Auto…
-
Utah’s Mighty 5 National Parks: A 7-Day Road Trip Itinerary
Utah’s “Mighty 5” (Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, and Arches) pack more red rock, slot canyon, and hoodoo scenery into one state than anywhere else in the country. Done right, you can string all five together in a single week without feeling like you’re just checking boxes. Here’s a real day-by-day plan, with the…
-
Blue Ridge Parkway: A Motorcycle Road Trip Guide
The Blue Ridge Parkway shows up on every “best scenic drives” list for good reason: 469 miles connecting Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, a 45 mph speed limit, and no billboards or commercial trucks by design. What those lists usually skip is what actually matters once you’re…
-
Cross-Country Motorcycle Trip: What to Know
Planning a weekend loop and planning a coast-to-coast ride are different exercises. The basics from how to plan a motorcycle road trip still apply, but a cross-country trip adds a layer most weekend riders never have to think about: sustaining the pace, the bike, and the logistics of being away for weeks instead of days.…
-
Best Scenic Roads for a Motorcycle Trip
A road that’s great in a car isn’t automatically great on a motorcycle. Cars want a nice view through the windshield; motorcycles want curve density, road surface, and a sense of being genuinely engaged with the riding, not just scenery going by. The five roads below are ones the riding community actually rates, for reasons…
-
Scenic Drives vs. Interstates: When to Take the Slow Road
Scenic drives vs. interstates: what each kind of road is good for, the real time-versus-experience trade-off, and how to build a route that uses both.