Allegheny National Forest, PA

[m.benn84]

​A few of us heading down May long weekend to the Allegheny National forest and surrounding area. Any recommendations on some great places to stay/camp?

Any input on roads would be much appreciated as well although we have a decent route via motorcycleroads.com

cheers,

[Splash]

also check http://www.motorcycleroads.us for roads

[MacDoc]

In the forest itself it's quite scenic but we found the roads marginal in terms of repair compared to some of the superb roads outside the forest proper.
There is lots of fracking about so be aware of trucks and it stinks in many areas there.
There are lots of PA threads on here and in my view better riding areas.

[Rotten_Ronnie]

I was on a KLR when I went through it last year, and it's no racetrack, but a wonderful area to tour through in the fall.

I'd do it again.

Sorry, we stayed overnight in Renovo at Yesterdays.

[frekeyguy]

This is right by the forest area.....there is a Huge Dam / reservoir there...neat place to see...

[Rotten_Ronnie]

Have a look to the southwest for route 666 PA. Booya said it was brilliant in another thread.

[FJgeezer]

I have ridden this state from top to bottom east to west and my recomendation would be buy an old fashioned Rand and Mcnally road atlas. Must be a Rand and Mcnally, they are extremely accurate and will show what roads are twisty, interesting etc. Once south of NY you really don't have to worry about road conditions that much, so pick the most interesting paved roads for you and let it rip. Sometimes the old fashioned way isn't the sexiest but the most accurate. Get the atlas and put your feet up and spend sometime just relaxing and viewing the roads available. There is however one potential fly in the ointment, as a previous poster mentioned, there is a great deal of "fracking" in north central Penn. this leads to a lot of truck traffic sometimes in places you wouldn't expect it. As an example along Hwy #6 in the north central areas. usually you can avoid it but keep an eye open for it, but the real downer is that a lot of these "frackers" are from outside the state Texas,Oklahoma etc. and they stay in motels, so a lot of your typical Super 8 style motels may be full up with these guys, just phone ahead to confirm if there is any vacancy at a motel you might want to stay at. Typically there will be room, but just not as many available rooms because of these out of state "frackers". Have fun, I'll be down there a few times this year as well.

[gcrouse]

Try the white deer motel outside williamsport fairly cheap but as mentioned fracking boys are booking alot of motels so i would call ahead.

[Pete5000]

Have a look to the southwest for route 666 PA. Booya said it was brilliant in another thread.

The Devil you say!

[omnivore]

666 is a cool road, if you don't mind poor road surface. It's really nice on my KTM.

While you are in the area, drop into the Kinzua area, ride Longhouse Scenic Drive. Very nice road.

[Ikan]

666 is a cool road, if you don't mind poor road surface. It's really nice on my KTM.

While you are in the area, drop into the Kinzua area, ride Longhouse Scenic Drive. Very nice road.

Road 666 last summer on a ss bike. Would do it anytime. Like this summer again.

[omnivore]

First time I did 666 was on an 05 GSXR 1000 in a rainstorm (Huriicane Ike actually).
While riding normally, it was fine, but it wasn't a road you could go bonkers on, because the asphalt is in crappy shape, and many of the bad spots are on blind turns. However, last summer I rode it again, on the KTM< and I was much more comfortable riding at an "elevated pace" , lets say,LOL