I had an opportunity to ride part of this road recently. I found it to be a very nice rural road without much traffic. The western half of the road that I did was quite enjoyable with very smooth pavement and built with well-engineered curves without extreme changes in curve radius. If you’re riding a… Continue reading Logsden Road / Rock Creek Road
Category: Western Oregon
Cow Creek Road
This narrow little riverine road is a welcome diversion from the high-pressure freeway slog of Interstate 5. It hops out around circles around to the west in the north end of the Siskiyou Range. It’s reputed to be a narrow and twisty little thing that zips around next to the creek with very little traffic… Continue reading Cow Creek Road
Oregon State Route 224 (‘Clackamas Highway’) & FS 46 “Clackamas River Road”
Note: During the autumn of 2020, this area suffered severely from the wildfires. I have not revisited this area, and as of October 2020 some of these areas are still closed to travel. This road is somewhat “schizophrenic” in the modern parlance. Every few miles you’ve suddenly got a completely different kind of road in… Continue reading Oregon State Route 224 (‘Clackamas Highway’) & FS 46 “Clackamas River Road”
Oregon State Route 42 “Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway”
Oregon 42 is a fairly relaxed road with most sweepers in the 40s for posted speeds. Running west to the coast out of the Roseburg vicinity, 42 meets the Middle Fork of the Coquille River a few miles west of Camas Valley and follows the river valley (in a general fashion) down into the town… Continue reading Oregon State Route 42 “Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway”
US Interstate 5 (Medford, OR – Green, OR)
The passes north of Grants Pass, Oregon are an absolute delight. You’re probably thinking, “But it’s a four-lane freeway, it must have been horribly boring.” Not so, not so. The sweeper were all marked at 50-55 which could easily be taken at 75 and as it was a rural Oregon freeway, the tractor-trailers would not… Continue reading US Interstate 5 (Medford, OR – Green, OR)