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	<title>Motorcycle Roads NorthWest &#187; rural</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>Oregon Route 86 &#8216;Baker-Copperfield Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/686</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading out of the Baker City, Oregon Route 86 is the most direct route out to the Hell&#8217;s Canyon area. And as one might surmise from the maps of the roadway, it might seem a bit too straight and a bit too flat if one&#8217;s gotten spoiled by the Central Oregon roads in the previous [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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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				<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
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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>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>Kirby-Mayview Road / Lower Deadman Road</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/25</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a truly fantastic road. On one end of the road, you have a fairly well-maintained US Highway (US Route 12), and on the other you have one of the Snake River&#8217;s more fascinating civil engineering projects, the Lower Granite Dam. The Kirby-Mayview Road departs US 12 at an acutely-angled intersection a few miles [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/638#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>
		<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>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>Washington Route 20 (Okanogan &#8211; Tiger/Ione)</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/176</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/176#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For riders used to the hustle &#38; bustle of Western Washington, Washington&#8217;s Route 20 is prone to inducing a bit of mental dissonance. If you departed on your trip from Seattle, you&#8217;ve spent the last couple hundred around lots of cars, motorcycles, and RVs. Well, that pretty much seems to end once you&#8217;re east of [...]]]></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>Washington State Route 508</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/126</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/126#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve traveled Washington Route 508 on many occasions. Sometimes I&#8217;m traveling to or from gatherings in Portland, and sometimes simply out enjoying an afternoon away from family and work, and sometimes I&#8217;m seeking to avoid the harried, frantic pace set by those on Interstate 5 or US12. This well-paved country highway engenders a different kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Route 97 (Maryhill, WA to Toppenish, WA)</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/131</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/131#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[US97 is a dry side road. It wends its way up from the Columbia along the valley floors, scatterings of abandoned pastureland and hardwood pines punctuating the Eastern Cascade scenery. The views are impressive and the highway is as well-paved as it is desolate on our mid-October weekend excursion. At one fairly flat spot south [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington State Route 105</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/111</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/111#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Route 105 is a bit off the beaten path for travelers along coast. Westport and a couple state parks line the coast facing the sea, but most of the cagers and the dreaded RVs go to their destination and back out (to Aberdeen) the way they came in. South of Grayland is where SR105 [...]]]></description>
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