I’ve posted about our rides on the Olympic Discovery Trail before but this is different. This is the Olympic Adventure Trail. It is part of the Discovery Trail only this is all dirt. We started at the small trailhead...
Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park Mountain Biking
This whole area up on the Olympic Peninsula is new to us. I was here as a little girl before but don’t remember anything and Derek has never been here. So, like much of our last 5 years on...
Tillamook State Forest Mountain Biking
Tillamook State Forest trails are probably closer to the Forest Grove part of Portland than the actual town of Tillamook but we made the drive to check them out. The Tillamook State Forest is a 364,000-acre publicly owned forest managed by...
Newport, Oregon Mountain Biking
The coast of Oregon has never been known for it’s mountain biking but there is some. Newport Trail Stewards, AKA NEWTS have been busy. We rode the Big Creek Trails one cool morning. The trails are located on city...
Spicer Ranch Ride
Spicer Ranch has always been a great spot for us to boondock because it’s right at the Beatty, NV trail system. Convenient! Derek and I rode a great loop that covered quite a bit of the trails. My favorite...
Hoover Dam Ride
With a short stopover in Boulder City, NV, I took the chance to ride the Railroad Grade out to Hoover Dam and back again. We’ve done this ride a couple times before and the awe and grandeur of the...
Vulture Peak Gravel Ride
To break up our drive we stopped a few nights in Wickenburg, AZ which is northeast of Phoenix. There is some great boondocking out by Vulture Peak and a maze of gravel roads that go forever. I pedaled around...
Cave Creek Regional Park trails
Cave Creek Regional Park in Cave Creek, Arizona has a set of trails for mountain biking, hiking and horseback riding that showcase the area beautifully. We had never ridden here before and were surprised at how fun and challenging...
Pima Dynamite Trails
We’re on our way north for the spring/summer after spending all winter in Southern Arizona. Our first stop wasn’t very far up in Cave Creek, AZ. Back in the late 90’s we would visit the Phoenix and Sedona areas...
Patagonia AZ Trail
We made the hour drive to Patagonia, AZ one day to ride a fun section of the AZ Trail. Patagonia used to be a pretty sleepy town but tourism is alive and well today. The downtown park was full...