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drive to Metaline Falls – 375 miles / 6 hrs –
ride 5 day / 280 miles route
consider adding north Kootenay Lake side trip (110 miles / 2 days)drive back to Leavenworth (250 miles, 2:45)
ride Plain loop – 39 miles. drive home
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Grand Coulee
drive to Twisp – 230 miles / 4 hours
(optionally, stop for a ride in Cle Elum or Chelan)
ride the 5-day Grand Coulee loop – 288 miles
drive to Seattle – 230 miles / 4 hours
(optionally, stop for a ride in Chelan or Leavenworth)
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Okanagan
drive to Osoyoos – 315 miles / 5 hours
ride Okanagan Gran Fondo route to Summerland and Highway 97 to Kelowna – 76 miles
ride Tour de Okanagan route to Armstrong – 52 miles
continue Tour de Okanagan route back to Kelowna – 48 miles
ride Trestles Tour route to Penticton (some gravel) – 38 miles
ride highway 97 to Osoyoos – 38 miles
drive to Seattle – 315 miles / 5 hours
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drive to Plummer. ID – 320 miles / 5 hrs
ride three day / 180 mile bitterroot loop
drive to Heartline – 125 miles 2:30 hours
ride truncated Grand Coulee loop (58 miles), drive to Chelan (70 miles, 1:15)
ride Navarre Coulee loop – 30 miles, drive home (170, 3:15)
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drive to Hood River – 265 miles 4:15
drive to Maupin – 61 miles 1 hour)
ride Sherar’s Falls loop 33 miles
drive to Bend – 90 miles, 1:44
ride scenic bikeways:
Crooked River 37 miles (Prineville – 36 miles)
Madras Mountain loop 29 miles (madras – 43 miles)
Twin Bridges loop 36 miles (bend)
McKenzie Pass to summit OAB 36 miles (or 80 miles full) (sisters – 22) drive to Black Butte Ranch
Drive Home via Santiam Pass & I-5 (320 miles 6 hours)
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drive to Bend – 360 miles, 6 hrs
drive to Fossil (109 miles)
ride Painted Hills (160 miles total – 3 days)
drive to John Day (100 miles)
ride Old West loop (174 miles total – 4 days)
drive to Bend (150 miles 3 hrs)
drive home 360 miles
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drive to Bend – 360 miles, 6 hrs
drive to Lakeview (210 miles, 3:20)
ride Oregon Outback (90 miles total – 2 days)
drive to crater lake 130 miles
ride rim drive (33 miles)
drive to Ribbon Ridge (170 miles, 3:15)
3 day winery tour
drive home – 200 miles
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