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Entries for March 2009

Best U.S. Motorcycle Routes

Posted by Jon Beals on 3/5/2009 at 1:00 PM

By Greg Benchwick

There's nothing quite so pure as leaning into a well-executed turn on your motorcycle. It's a perfect confluence of precision and power, finesse and physics. And, it really comes as no surprise that most of America's best riding roads are also its curviest.

There's the Pacific Coast Highway, with its silky S-turns and mind-blowing views; the "Texas Hill Country Twister;" North Carolina's "Tail of the Dragon," considered by most to be the curviest road in the U.S.; and, of course, the 469 snaking miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway that runs south from Shenandoah National Park all the way to the Great Smokies.

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