What is your favorite state to ride in? Why?

[Bandito]

I enjoy southern missouri however I havent hit all 50 states so I have a lot to ride before I can truly answer this question!

[vulcanbill]

I enjoy southern missouri however I havent hit all 50 states so I have a lot to ride before I can truly answer this question!

I think WV will be high on many peoples' lists.  The number of awesome roads combined with the fact that even the most insane of them tend to have unreasonably high speed limits makes riding there a real hoot.  Another advantage is that the roads are condensed and relatively clustered so you can ride for 12 hours and spend almost all of it on twisties.  Some of the larger states out west have amazing roads too but it takes a lot more time to cover them or get from one to the next.  Great for touring but notsomuch for day trips in many cases.  

[FJRmgm]

Southern Missouri right next to the Arkansas border (125 and 160) is excellent but go on into the NW quandrant Arkansas for the best riding in the region....

Ark 7,16, 21,23,43,46,74, 103,127,311 are all EXCELLENT.

BTW, I live in Texas and the Hill Country there is great but Arkansas is much better.  Smooth roads, every back road is great, little traffic, great scenery.

I love to ride in Arkansas.

WV is great, lived there for six years and rode the heck out of it. Arkansas looks almost like WV but has better roads and very little traffic on them.

[maddjack]

SE Ohio followed by WVa  TWISTYS

[rgbeard]

CA.

We can now close this thread.

 

[black hills]

Montana, because days like this are fun

[ninjaridaz]

Smoky Mountains.  Close enough to reach in 1 day for me and my brothers who live on the east coast.

[sleazy rider]

Convenience factor to home?  Northern KY or SE Ohio for me.  Four-ish hours riding and I'm setting up camp.

Absolute amazing roads?  WV, hands down, but its an eight hour ride each way.

[garry]

Local day rides out of Pittsburgh:

I love WV, but you do spend a fair amount of time on scenic sweepers connecting the twisty bits.

Southeast Ohio is more consistently twisty than WV, but without the big mountain views and elevation changes.


My mid-Atlantic perspective for a 2-5 day (long) weekend trips:

The NC/TN/VA area near Shady Valley is awesome, but that's three states, and it's a long day ride away for me.

Jumping back and forth over the WV/VA border is really good fun, but that's two states. My favorite parts of 33, 250 and 39 are in VA.

Eastern KY is high on my list too. Kind of a perfect mix of southeast OH and WV, but with less gravel and better pavement.

The Deals Gap, Cherohala, N. Ga area is great too, but it's kind of far away and there is lots of great riding that is closer (3-day weekend versus 5-day weekend).

[motomem]

New Mexico - but Taos area is my favorite. To the people of New Mexico - If I win the lottery me and my money will be moving to your state.  

[94gixxerod]

PA, especially the south central part, is a wonderful area for twisties.

[X1Glider]

1. Arkansas - Ouachita area -Long empty stretches of long and short radius sweepers with nice valley scenery - fun Wayerhauser forest roads
2. N. Georgia - 1/2 hour north of Atlanta and you're into some spectacular roads in the foothills
3. Oregon - Not a straight road from A-B in the state.  Awesome forest roads.
4. South W. Va. - lots of twisties connecting small towns.  More great scenery.
5. NE Colorado - west out of Boulder opens the doors to heaven
6. CA - too many places to list but most roads too far from each other.

[blueridgerider]

My home - NC though it stretches past my immediate area to encompass the region NC, TN, GA, VA mountains.   It's my favorite because there is no other area I know better.  I dare say most people know many very good to great roads in their area while other areas of the country that knowledge may be sparse.  I have ridden in many other states/parts of the country and I while I do not stick to the well beaten paths, I am sure there are many roads I missed out on not being out there day after day.  If I lived any other place long enough my thoughts might change.  But as - there's no place like home.

[CosmicCowboy]

So far, Georgia and North Carolina. Great roads, things to see, not far from home.

[Wockman]

Spent four years in Alaska, the scenery never got boring.  Florida on the other hand, has to be my least favorite...

[stk0308]

Close too home: Northern AR and southern MO.  
Distance: WV, and CO.

[DogBoy]

CA. Unmatched variety of roads and scenery. Even if you just did race tracks or offroad, the unmatched variety part still applies. Add in the climate. Moto-heaven.

Wildly underrated Oregon would be second.

[McRider]

Now that we're waking up on the West Coast I think you will see a lot more from us.  There are great roads in Oregon and Washington, but Northern California between hwy 5 and the coast, north of Red Bluff is one of my favorites because of.......the car drivers.  I have never experienced so many people pulling over to let a motorcycle by as I have in that area.  I guess it helps that the roads have lots of pull-outs.  

[R Doug]

NC in the east and CA in the west.

Both offer great mountain roads with the availability of all year riding.  

[bungie4]

I've always said I want to retire to WV. Phenomenal pavement, great twisties seemingly everywhere. Drive outside of any town in any direction and in 5 minutes, your on a ANOTHER great road.

Next choice would be SE Ohio, NC, TN, VA.. hell, the entire Appalachian range. Never had the pleasure of Cali, but on the west coast, Utah, Western Washington. NW Montana. In Canada, BC hands down. Then Nova Scotia. QC has some interesting bits but the pavement generally is substandard - except the road running through Mauricie Ntl Park (google it, then zoom in until the road come into view >