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	<title>Motorcycle Roads NorthWest &#187; backroad</title>
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		<title>Manila Creek Road (Peter Dan Road)</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/692</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 16:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Puget Sound riders often lament that there&#8217;s no good places to go ride that aren&#8217;t completely riddled with speed traps, but perhaps what&#8217;s needed is a new place to ride. Manila Creek Road is just such a place. While it&#8217;s not 80 miles of uninterrupted twisties like FS25, you&#8217;re not going to see much traffic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glenwood-Goldendale Road</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/704</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When one is asked to envision a place with jaw-dropping scenery and fantastic twisty roads, the Klickitat River Canyon is generally not the first thing on anybody&#8217;s mind. It&#8217;s set back in a little nook between the Cascade and the Simcoe Mountain north of Goldendale. The Klickitat has carved an impressive channel down through &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon State Route 245 &#8216;Dooley Mountain Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/674</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way over in the eastern end of Oregon, is one of the most challenging sections of rural highway Oregon has to offer. Called Dooley Mountain Highway, it&#8217;s an amazing piece of road that leaves almost no time at all to enjoy, let alone ponder, the fantastic scenery from 4000&#8242; or so feet up. Abandoned Barn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wallowa-Whitman Forest Service Road 39</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/81</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This road is part of the Hells Canyon Scenic Byway. It wends its way down from Imnaha Highway near Joseph through the Hells Canyon back-country past a number of peaks in the Blue Mountains range before dropping you out east of Halfway. Obviously, this road isn&#8217;t in one of the more populated parts of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon State Route 218 &#8216;Shaniko-Fossil Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/666</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia has an excellent description of Oregon Route 218. OR 218 is a fairly short rural highway. Its western terminus is in Wasco County, in the ghost town of Shaniko at U.S. Route 97. The road is very windy and hilly over its entire 43-mile (69 km) length and is a popular destination for motorcyclists. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Route 207 (Ruggs &#8211; Mitchell)</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/90</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another fantastic Central Oregon route, here we have over 80 miles of nearly unbroken sweepers and hairpins in the Ruggs &#8211; Mitchell segment of Oregon Route 207. As this route does one of those strange Oregon multi-plexing things where it forms an &#8216;X&#8217; across North Central oregon with Route 19, I&#8217;ll deal with this in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho Route 8</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/147</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/147#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 16:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must say that I&#8217;ve kind of fallen in love with the sweeper roads of North Central Idaho. The roads gently weave in between the rolling hills of trees and fields, with an occasional village with a gas station and market, with hardly any other vehicular traffic out on the road. This particular road is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington State Route 530 &#8216;Pioneer Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/8</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/8#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pioneer Highway. A nice curvy specimen of roadcraft and an apt name as well, since the road curves here and there all over the Stillaguamish River valley. The pavement is a little rough and appears to be surprisingly light-duty for what is a state highway, after all. There&#8217;s significant bumps along the road and small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vantage Highway</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/143</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/143#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, don&#8217;t act all surprised that I&#8217;ve posted yet another old highway alignment. This one however is rather nice and much twistier than the parallel Interstate 90 a few miles to the south. This one is quite a bit of fun, actually. It winds along the valleys that lead down to the Columbia River and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yachats River Road</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/628</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/628#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/622#comments</comments>
		<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>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>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>Eastern Washington&#8217;s Inner Passage</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/151</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/151#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This isn&#8217;t any particular road, but rather a serious of loosely-connected roads that allow one to thread their way through some surprisingly empty country laying between Interstate 90 and WA SR26. The Inner Passage holds a marked allure for me. Usually, when I am trying to get an event or a function, I&#8217;m in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloquallum Road (Shelton &#8211; Elma, WA)</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/97</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/97#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 17:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This a classic forest road in the rural backwoods of Western Washington. Nestled within the glacial river valleys that once drained Puget Sound down to Grays Harbor, this road is bracketed throughout its entire 24 mile length by ridges, ponds and hillsides. Just as you would expect from geography and location, the road is tree-lined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington State Route 503 (South Leg)</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/153</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/153#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those not from Western Washington, State Route 503 may need a bit of explanation. This road starts over at Interstate 5 and heads East to the village of Yale, then turns to the South and down towards Vancouver, Washington. While the West Leg of 503 is a nice little road, it&#8217;s becoming increasingly urbanized [...]]]></description>
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