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
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
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.
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
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
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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