West Virginia 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...

Top 5 Motorcycle Roads in West Virginia

Visitors to Rider’s Touring page regularly search for rides in West Virginia, and it’s easy to see why. Known as the Mountain State and...

Border Hopping the Virginias: Virginia and West Virginia Motorcycle Ride

Riding challenging curves through beautiful mountain scenery spikes my happy gauge, and the border region of eastern West Virginia and western Virginia is ripe...

Asphalt Heaven: Riding West Virginia Backroads

What I like most about motorcycles is that they lean, a trait I describe to nonriders as “dancing with a machine.” A motorcyclist can...

Lessons Learned on a Wandering West Virginia Motorcycle Ride

We all have beliefs about what’s expected of a motorcycle camper, and sometimes it takes a certain situation to bring those expectations to the...

An Appalachians Motorcycle Ride Through Scenery and History | Favorite Ride

In late October, an Appalachians motorcycle ride is a gamble. Weather is the house, and over time, the house usually wins. But once in...

Along the Midland Trail: A West Virginia Motorcycle Trip

Inspiration for a motorcycle trip can come from many avenues – perhaps by word of mouth about legendary riding destinations like the Tail of...

A Father and Son’s Virginia and West Virginia Motorcycle Tour

Contributor Nathan Cuvelier and his father ride some some epic Appalachian and Blue Ridge backroads on their Virginia and West Virginia motorcycle tour, including...

Favorite Ride: Seneca Rocks, West Virginia

It’s not until we exit Interstate 81, run through some gears on U.S. Route 48, and catch a whiff of dew-covered fields that I...

Favorite Ride: Lapping the Appalachians

Dad’s first sojourn through the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia needed to be grand. Dad is a desert...

Riding West Virginia’s Country Roads

With the weather calling for highs in the mid-70s in West Virginia in mid-November, I knew I had to take one last ride up...

Motorcycle Touring in West Virginia (and a Bit of Virginia)

There’s an old joke about the Mountain State that goes something like this: “If you could flatten out West Virginia, it would be as...

Short Motorcycle Ride through West Virginia and Maryland

Done. Finally! The lawn is mowed, trimming completed, garage swept, and I even got the car washed. The Honey-Do List completed, I venture inside...

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...

West Virginia Motorcycle Touring

story and photography by Mario Caruso West Virginians love quoting New River Gorge Bridge statistics: the biggest steel span bridge in the Americas (used to...