Algonquin Provincial Park

[bungie4]

Route 129?  Help a guy out here please.... What's it near?

129 runs between Hwy 17 and 101, Iron Bridge to Chapleau.  The road is in very bad shape with logging trucks ripping the hell out of it. I ride it a couple times a year just for the scenery. The lower 1/3 of the hwy is the interesting scenic bit. It runs parallel to the Mississaugi River.  If they ever get around to repaving it I'd give it about an 8 on the fun/scenery scale. As it is now though...

129 Scenery


Short vid from a few years ago. The road has only gotten worse from this.
http://bungie4.blip.tv/file/1160300/

[jp]

Great videos Bungie! I enjoyed the tour of my backyard (Cabot Trail). Quite the year you had in 2010 though! Keep on running...

[bungie4]

Great videos Bungie! I enjoyed the tour of my backyard (Cabot Trail). Quite the year you had in 2010 though! Keep on running...

Thanks JP. Glad you liked them. I'm supposed to return to do the Cabot again in June. Maybe hop on the ferry and run the rock to Gros Morne. Well, depending if I can get the time off - new job...

As for 2010. Nearly 50,000Km, I'm not likely to repeat that kind of mileage for a long time to come, but man, it was fantastic!

Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.

If your coming up from the south toward Algonquin. Treat yourself and spend some time running around the Muskoka/Parry Sound area. Some really good riding in that area. Algonquin is a destination, but on the low end of the scale for riding.

[Corbeau]

The only time I had fun on Hwy 60 was when I took it at 6 a.m. on my way to the Parry Sound Sportbike Rally. No traffic, OPP's finest still asleep and before the stunting law. (The one that makes you lose your bike for a week if you do 140 in a 90 zone)