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	<title>Motorcycle Roads NorthWest &#187; Western Oregon</title>
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		<title>Bald Mountain Road / Willamina Creek Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Road Report provided by Joe Trombetta If you&#8217;re up in the Northwestern Oregon&#8217;s Tillamook and Yamhill Counties, you&#8217;ll find some excellent riding up there. Twisty gnarly little roads that benefit greatly from some off-road and marginal-road experience, for certain, but very rewarding when the other roads are full of cars and RVs. Up in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Route 66 (Ashland to Klamath Falls)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This road provides a excellent path from Ashland to Klamath Falls across the South Oregon Cascades. It&#8217;s very scenic and passes by Emigrant Reservoir ascending three 4,000+ foot mountain passes. These fantastic passes include Hayden Mountain 15 miles or so west of Keno. There are a number of very good roads that intersect with Oregon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Route 224 &#8216;Clackamas Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/678</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 17:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This road is somewhat &#8220;schizophrenic&#8221; in the modern parlance. Every few miles you&#8217;ve suddenly got a completely different kind of road in front of you. While I waus staying in Portland with some old and new friends, I decided to take a weekend jaunt out into the Oregon Cascades to see how far I got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Columbia River Highway</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/677</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 05:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in the opening decades of the 20th Century, an amazing road was designed by the Oregon State Highway Department and highway engineer Samuel C. Lancaster. An fantastic routing full of viewpoints, waterfalls, tunnels, and curves of all shapes and sizes. It was described by John Arthur Elliot: The ideals sought were not the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Route 20 in the Oregon Coast Range (Newport to Philomath)</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/638</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t easily recall how many times fellow riders have maligned the US Route highway here in the Pacific Northwest. Too dull, they say. Too slow and no curves, they decry. Try XYZ Road instead of that tired old day. Well, if taken at their word, this (along with the Cascades section of US 20) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yachats River Road</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/628</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the Yachats River back up into the Oregon Coastal hills is this eponymous little road. It starts out inside the also eponymous little town of Yachats right off US 101 with a funky uphill and acute-angled intersection that goes right up the side of the hill. Once you&#8217;re a few blocks in and getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Route 34 &#8216;The Alsea Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/622</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This road is an absolute delight. It fully justifies the occasional bragging from my Oregonite friends that the roads down there are far better than Washington&#8217;s. This one is easy to find too. If you&#8217;re coming in from the Coast, it&#8217;s the main road east out of Waldport. If you&#8217;re coming in from West via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Route 223</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/42</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/42#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This delightful back-country highway was far nicer than my admittedly low expectations. My cohort and I were hustling along on 223 at a brisk but not unreasonable pace, and enjoying the scenery and sweepers. While this road is certainly no OR47, it has its own charms. The sweepers are predictable and friendly, with just enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon State Route 53</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/599</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/599#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone that&#8217;s persevered sufficiently to read much of my writing knows that I&#8217;ve got a thing for old roads. New roads are fun and they&#8217;re fast, but they don&#8217;t satisfy me unless they have a bit of history behind them. This one doesn&#8217;t sound spectacular, but it&#8217;s a great little road that usually gets you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quincy-Mayger Loop</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/155</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/155#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northwestern Oregon is a treasure trove of fantastic motorcycle roads. Many of the roads are very mountainous in nature with lots of fir trees and log trucks. This one, on the river side of US30 is a bit different. This one runs through a still hilly but far more agricultural and bucolic settings than the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scappoose-Vernonia Highway</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/70</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/70#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This road is one of the favorites of the local Portland riders. Rather easy to tell really, since I saw a half-dozen riders on this road in 10 minutes and that was more than I&#8217;d seen in the previous 3 hours. This road starts up at the top near the quasi-hamlet of Pittsburg and comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apiary Road</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/41</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that is immediately apparent about Apiary Road is that it&#8217;s rural. If you&#8217;re coming in from the north end around Rainier or Clatskanie, you have to climb up out of the river valley to get there, and then you go up a set of wonderful uphill esses that take you up onto the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Route 214</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/65</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/65#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oregon Route 214 may not be the sportbike-haven that you get in the mountains on side of the Willamette Valley, but there&#8217;s enough curves to go around and plenty to see and do along this highway. In Mount Angel, you can visit a Germanic-style Benedictine monastery and stop for comestibles at the Mt. Angel Brewing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Route 540 &#8216;Cape Arago Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/148</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/148#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out along the Oregon Coast, on the tidewater side of US101, the intrepid motorcyclist can find the Cape Arago Highway. This highly scenic roadway begins at the west end of Newmark Avenue in Charleston, Oregon at Empire Boulevard and follows the edge of Coos Bay out to the South Slough Bridge after which 7 Devils [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miami River Road</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/102</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/102#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a lovely opportunity to ride this road recently. While the weather wasn&#8217;t anywhere near perfect, it&#8217;s probably what you can also expect along the Oregon Coast most of the year. This road does lack a bit in engineering with its frequent bumps and dips, but it&#8217;s a fine weekday cruise. Weekday, you ask? [...]]]></description>
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