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Rider has been bringing you the best in motorcycle touring, travel, and adventure since 1974. Click the map below to access motorcycle rides by state or click the globe for international tours. Use the drop-down menu above to access shorter Favorite Ride tours and rides by region (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West). All rides include a route map, and rides since 2021 include a link to online REVER routes with downloadable GPX files.

Florida Motorcycle Touring: Indian River Lagoon Scenic Highway

story and photography by Ed Garland Mild winters may make Florida motorcycle touring ideal, but the Sunshine State isn’t exactly rife with mountains, vistas and...

Virginia Motorcycle Rides: A Civil War Ride

story and photography by Bob Jacobs Medications always come with risks as well as benefits. The Doc says, “Take one of these every day. Let...

Connecting the Dakotas: The Long Way Around North and South

As a motorcyclist who enjoys vacant, isolated roads, I stared longingly at the Dakotas on my National Geographic wall map while planning my next...

Midwest Motorcycle Rides: Ohio to West Virginia

story and photography by Lance Oliver Even when gasoline cost a fraction of today’s going rate, I always felt better about a ride to a...

Colorado Motorcycle Rides: Cañon City, Monarch Pass and Beyond

story and photography by Warren Renshaw In the April 2005 issue of Rider magazine I vowed to return to Colorado as long as I was...

Calabogie Dreaming: Riding the Lake Country of Eastern Ontario, Canada

A cool, dry breeze blows in from the northwest. It’s a welcome change. Rainfall totals this summer are setting records, and my riding buddies...

New York Motorcycle Rides: The Hudson River Valley

story and photography by Kenneth W. Dahse One of the most fascinating and scenic areas in the eastern United States is New York’s Hudson River...

Louisiana Motorcycle Rides: Nothing Like Natchitoches

Natchitoches, Louisiana. It’s not Natchez, as in the Natchez Trace; it’s not Nacogdoches, the town in east Texas. It’s pronounced “Nackatish.” It’s the oldest...

Firstgear Motorcycle Ride in Utah and Colorado

(This "Favorite Ride" was originally published in the April 2009 issue of Rider Magazine." As a 15-year-old mountain biker living in Georgia, I dreamed of...

A Columbia River Gorge Motorcycle Ride

I like Astoria, I really do. Softie and I are riding up Coxcomb Hill, the muted exhaust note drifting off into the clean air....

Southern Washington Motorcycle Touring: The Cascade Mountain Range

story and photography by Sean Coker Klickitat Indian folklore has it that the Cascade Mountain Range was punishment for two brothers who could not share....

Firstgear Colorado Motorcycle Ride: 2,252 miles from CA to CO

photography by Greg Drevenstedt and Mark Kincart As a 15-year-old mountain biker living in Georgia, I dreamed of riding in two places: The slickrock trails...

Montana Motorcycle Rides: Touring Big Sky Country

Story by Roger Hotelling Our Montana ride began with two thunderstorms. Not good omens. We were finally on dry pavement, our rainsuits repacked and the...

Moose Ride: Motorcycle Touring from Vermont to New Hampshire to Canada

story and photography by Dan Bisbee The moose is North America’s largest mammal, and an estimated 7,000 of them call New Hampshire home. They are...

Utah Motorcycle Rides: Touring Torrey

story and photography by Janet Borg The late September timing means peak fall foliage, low tourist traffic, and cool daytime temperatures. I grinned, picturing three...

Tennessee Civil War Motorcycle Ride from a Harley Saddle

story and photography by Beau Allen Pacheco “Any understanding of this nation has to be based—and I mean really based—on an understanding of the Civil...

Michigan Motorcycle Touring: “Tunnel of Trees” Road

story and photography by Dan Soults Our favorite Michigan ride is even more fun during Indian summer because of the gorgeous fall colors. We stop...

Oregon Motorcycle Roads: The Elkhorn and Blue Mountain Scenic Byways

story and photography by Bruce and Sharon Hansen Why go? The story of a virgin landscape, raped by a hotel-sized dredge, a vast fire-ravaged forest,...

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