Ride Guide Idaho

With roads and trails like these, who needs potatoes?

Famous for potatoes?

Honest, that's what it says on the license plates. And we think we've discovered the problem right there.

In our ongoing quest to find the best place in the country to be a motorcyclist, it's been entirely too easy to overlook Idaho.

In past years, our annual Ride Guides have taken us to Colorado and Massachusetts, Utah and West Virginia. Great places, with the kinds of roads and trails motorcyclists crave.

But who knew Idaho has more miles of trails than any of them? Who knew it has an inexhaustible supply of curvy mountain roads? Who knew that motorcyclists like us have infiltrated the state's government to the highest levels?

Who knew?

Not us. Not till we sent Bill Wood and Grant Parsons there. And they found out that the Spud State's slogan is all wrong. It could be Famous for Motorcycling. In fact, it ought to be.

Articles from American Motorcyclist

10,000 feet Scenes from the road
Uncovering Idaho's best
Turning right at the intersection--in Stanley you don't have to ask which intersection--we picked up state Route 21, the Ponderosa Pine Scenic Byway, and started on one of the great motorcycle day-trips in the western U.S.

Trail
The view from 10,000 feet
When we left the truck this morning, we went from graded road to muddy two-track to rock-strewn railroad grade to shale-covered hillside. Then we took on some dense, wooded singletrack and a fire road through an alpine meadow. All in the first 10 miles.

Idaho on the web

Parks
Idaho State Parks and Recreation

Off-road riding
Sawtooth National Recreational Area

Idaho tourism info
Idaho Travel Information - The official Idaho travel planner with links to area attractions and accommodations
Idaho Transportation Department - Road and weather reports