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Great Gravel Roads

Motorcycle Mike

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So I was reading Shane's thread in the cruising section about Great Riding Roads when I figured there should be a Great Gravel Road thread.

To qualify as a great gravel road to ride, in my opinion, it needs to meet two criteria:
1) It is not just a straight road... too boring, so that rules out most of Southern Ontario.
2) It is not heavily travelled -- so that rules out some great logging roads for the most part. That (more or less) rules out the Sultan Industrial Road because it is as wide as a provincial highway and has trucks roaring by every five minutes.

So here are two roads I found recently:

This first one was a cottage road I found as a short cut between Bon Echo and Bancroft. I encountered almost no vehicles at all, and for the most part it is a one-lane road that rolls and meanders: https://goo.gl/maps/yKeUJ

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This next one I first did on the Vstrom and had enough fun I had to go back on the DRZ. The Western part, White Lake Road, looks straight on the map until you zoom in. It is actually a no-winter maintenance road that is very hilly and is very easy to catch air zooming down this trail: https://goo.gl/maps/eAKZY

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Here is a gpx of these routes, plus an add-on I haven't tried yet but looks like it would be a good run:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/abm8q7nr54cv8wo/Great Gravel Roads.gpx?dl=0

If anyone knows some great gravel roads, send me the gpx or post it in google maps as above and I will add it to this GPX to create a master GPX of Great Gravel Roads.
 
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Egan Creek Rd looks like it should be the kind of roads you are looking for and it runs from Lake Westlemkoon Rd (Of HWY 62) to Hwy 28.

Looks like rolling hills in the Terrain view and I know it is not a surfaced road. My bike is not ideal for checking this one out but may be worth a trip on the DRZ or your Vstrom.

https://goo.gl/maps/otBhH
 
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