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Yellowstone National Park Motorcycle Trip—Geysers, Wildlife, and High Plains Riding

Plan the ultimate Yellowstone National Park motorcycle trip. Ride the Grand Loop Road, see geysers, wildlife, mountain scenery, and unforgettable high-country touring.

Riding the Roof of Wyoming Motorcycle Ride: Chief Joseph Scenic Byway, Beartooth Highway, and Yellowstone National Park

In late September, I joined my riding buddies Ray, Rafi, Ashish, and Jay for a northern Wyoming motorcycle ride through wild landscapes, including the...

Utah Motorcycle Ride to Great Basin National Park | Favorite Ride

Ten years ago, doctors removed my left kidney – and the golfball-sized tumor attached to it. To mark a decade of being cancer-free, I...

Joshua Tree National Park Motorcycle Ride | Favorite Ride

“It’s the Joshua tree’s struggle that gives it its beauty,” writes Jeannette Walls in her 2005 memoir The Glass Castle. She further contends that...

Riding From Gunnison, Colorado, to Hovenweep National Monument

C. Jane Taylor’s moto memoir Spirit Traffic was published in 2022. That summer, she and her husband embarked on a 97‑­day cross‑­country book tour...

Enlightenment in Pennsylvania: An Allegheny National Forest Motorcycle Ride

My father‑in‑law had a thing for the Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania. George would regularly leave his home in Jeannette, an industrial town...

National Parks, Alpine Passes, and The Bard: A Southern Utah Motorcycle Ride

While I waited for my steaming calzone to cool in the pizza restaurant in the tiny town of Orderville, Utah, and contemplated my impending...

Healing Ride: A Father-and-Son Journey on the Blue Ridge Parkway and Beyond

The few months leading up to this ride, which included the famed Blue Ridge Parkway, had been rough. My wife was recovering from some...

Seeing Three Utah National Parks on a Motorcycle | Favorite Ride

Utah’s national parks – Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, and Zion – are known as the Mighty 5. All feature impressive red rock...

Death Valley National Park Photo Essay

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…” –Psalm 23 Whether this well-known Bible passage provided the inspiration for Death Valley’s...

Mojave National Preserve: From Neon to Nirvana

Covering three states and several desert ecosystems, this ride was a survey of contrasts, from arid sand dunes to thriving wetlands, whimsical Joshua trees...

Favorite Ride: Mineral King and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks

The mission was simple: See some scenery, carve some curves and soak up some cool temperatures before the summer heat arrived. Three of us left...

One Ride, 47 National Parks

Forty-seven national parks, 17,335 miles, 67 days, three flat tires, two forest fires, three boat rides, temps ranging from 31 degrees and sleet to...

Riding to the Grand Canyon During National Park Week

In Northern Arizona, mid-April spells the beginning of the thaw of the snowpack in mountains, and the corresponding bloom of the hardiest of wild...

Salt Lake to Sin City: Five National Parks and a Highway Through the Sky

If you want to travel from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Las Vegas, Nevada, by the shortest possible route, the 425 miles of Interstate...

Motorcycle Riding Along the Natchez Trace Parkway

Click here to see and download the Natchez Trace Parkway route on REVER Rod Serling’s words ran through my mind as I turned off Highway...

National Parks Motorcycle Touring: Grand Tetons and Yellowstone

Story and photography by Donya Carlson As a native Southern Californian, I’m used to mountains. But riding over a crest along Teton Scenic Byway 33...

Motorcycle Tour of Glacier, Yellowstone and Teton National Parks

There’s a reason our national parks are preserved: they are special, magic, even extraordinary. Yet in the most popular, swarms of tourists can be...

Alaska Motorcycle Rides: Denali National Park & Preserve

story and photography by Ed McClure It was already noon, yet I still had 10 hours of daylight left to ride 180 miles on one...

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