Alaska Motorcycle Rides

50 Best Motorcycle Roads in America

The December 2024 issue of Rider celebrated the magazine's 50th anniversary. Over the past half century, we have published thousands of travels stories, favorite...

Alaska Motorcycle Ride: Discovering America’s Last Frontier

It wasn’t that she was a princess. She had lived and taught on a reservation in northern Ontario where she gutted geese, chopped down...

The Final Frontier: How Alaska Stole This British Rider’s Heart

Skirting northeasterly around Denali National Park, I was hit with countless chevrons of snowcapped, glacier-studded mountains in Alaska's Interior. My hunger for wild lands...

Beating the Haul Road: Alaska’s Dalton Highway

If you’re a Harley rider, you have to ride to Sturgis at least once in your life. For road race fans it’s Austin or...

Back to Alaska—A 40th Anniversary Ride

Mosquito hordes clustered around me as I sat on my Suzuki Water Buffalo contemplating how to extricate myself from the damnable predicament I found...

An Alaskan Motorcycle Adventure How-To

Every adventurous motorcyclist dreams of riding to a far-off destination like Alaska on the spur of the moment; just drop everything and take off...

Adventure on the Alcan: From Dawson Creek to Delta Junction and Beyond

I had been riding on a level plateau for a couple of days, a place where endless fields of wheat merge with the sky...

Alaska Roadhouse Run: The Valdez to Fairbanks Trail

(This story was published in the July 2012 issue of Rider magazine.) Story and photos by Dennis Bible When gold was discovered in the 1890s in...

The Haul Road: A Motorcycle Tour of Alaska’s Dalton Highway

My first ride to Alaska in 2008 was a 15-day, 7,600-mile affair and the fulfillment of a long delayed dream. Yet I still had...

Alaska and Yukon Ayres Adventures Rider Motorcycle Tour 2011

photography by Clement and Sue Salvadori Alaska and Yukon Ayres Adventures Rider Motorcycle Tour 2011 was originally published in the October 2011 issue of Rider...

Women’s Ride: Alaska Rider Tours in Anchorage

story and photography by Perri Capell Alaska lures male motorcyclists like flies to honey, but getting more women from the Lower 48 to tackle it...

Rider Alaska and Yukon Tour, The Last Frontier

Final Cell Phone Blog Most photos by Genie Tuttle Penultimate evening, Talkeetna, Alaska. Denali’s ulu-knife top is sheathed in ever-present clouds, then clears suddenly and slices the...

Rider Alaska & Yukon Tour Part II

Cell Phone Blog Day 10 Miles: 1900-plus (Dawson City Group, 2600; Roger, lost count) New friends: 10 Border crossings: 4 Rain riding: 8-10 min. Amazing sunrises: 4 (asleep for sunsets...

Rider Alaska and Yukon Tour with Ayres Adventures

“The last foreign country still friendly to Americans,” read the first, but far from last, hand-scrawled sign we would see expressing the many interesting...

Motorcycle Travel: Alaska's Denali Park at Twilight

(This "Favorite Ride" was first published in the June 2012 issue of Rider Magazine.) It was already noon, yet I still had 10 hours of...