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40 New Roads to Ride your Motorcycle

A few years ago, I wrote about a website that the federal government did right. The Federal Highway Administration’s America’s Byways website is a good place to look for roads to ride. I use this website often to find interesting roads to travel while at or on the way to or from my destination.

The website has both roads designated as American Byways and All-American Roads. The homepage describes the differences between the two types of roads.

I am revisiting this website because they have added forty new roads to the list that now totals 184 byways for us to travel. You can discover the roads by clicking on the state you want to travel and see what National Bayway or All-American roads are there for you to explore.

The following are a few examples of the new roads added to list and might make my bucket list:

Cascade Loop, Washington – 440 miles

Newfound Gap Road Byway, Tennessee – 50 miles

Door County Costal Byway, Wisconsin – 67 miles

Trail of the Ancients, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico – 480 miles

Bayou Teche Scenic Byway, Louisiana – 296 miles

Sandhills Journey Scenic Byway, Nebraska – 438 miles

If you do not have National Scenic Byways & All-American Roads website in your riding toolbox… do it now!

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Motorcycle Rides: Well here is one website the Federal Government got right! America’s Byways.

Posted: March 11, 2014 in Motorcycle, Motorcycle Rides
Tags: all American roads, Harley, Harley Davidson, Motorcycle, Motorcycle Ride, motorcycle touring, national scenic byways, scenic byways, sport bike, Sportbike

How did I just find out about this! The Federal Highway Administration (part of the US Department of Transportation) has an interactive website called America’s Byways. It highlights the Scenic Byways of America and, no kidding, it is well done. Now we have a new tool to help us plan our motorcycle rides.

The website describes itself this way; “The National Scenic Byways Program is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. The program is a grass-roots collaborative effort established to help recognize, preserve and enhance selected roads throughout the United States. The U.S. Secretary of Transportation recognizes certain roads as All-American Roads or National Scenic Byways based on one or more archeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational and scenic qualities.”

America’s Byways is an interactive, map based, website that will provide you a listing of each of the 150 different roads. Those roads are comprised of the National Scenic Byways and All-American Roads. You can select the road from a national or state map to see basic information on the road (length, average time to travel the road and historical background) as well as route maps, directions and photos.