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	<title>Motorcycle Roads NorthWest &#187; twisties</title>
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		<title>Bald Mountain Road / Willamina Creek Road</title>
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		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/725#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Twisties]]></category>
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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 State Route 410 &#8216;Bull Run to Baker Road&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/675</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/675#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please note: I did this road in June of 2009. Much has changed in Central Oregon since then and some services are no longer available. During my week in Central Oregon last summer, I&#8217;d met and spoken with many riders who&#8217;d ridden up US 395 and come up through John Day. They were looking for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Route 86 &#8216;Baker-Copperfield Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/686</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/686#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eastern Oregon]]></category>
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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>Old Winchester Grade</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/32</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Located just outside of Culdesac Idaho is one of the neat little roads tucked away up on the hilltops of northern Idaho. It&#8217;s an amazing old road, with emphasis on Old and a double word bonus of Narrow. The road is barely the width of one and a half lanes of a modern roadway, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon State Route 74 &#8216;Heppner Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/667</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As just about any decent map can tell you, 74 runs from a lonely little interchange on I-84 up by the Columbia down through small farm towns and back up to another lonely little interchange just east of Vinson on US Route 395. None of it surprising and none of it very interesting on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunrise Park Road, Mount Rainier National Park</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/108</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunrise Park Road Road to Sunrise Ampitheater The Road to Sunrise Ampitheatre is extremely twisty and challenging. The paving also leaves a lot of be desired with large frost heaves and sunken sections of pavement. Be quite careful when riding this road due to these concerns and the astonishingly heavy tourist traffic in the afternoons. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Route 66 (Ashland to Klamath Falls)</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/49</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/49#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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 State Route 245 &#8216;Dooley Mountain Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/674</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/674#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eastern Oregon]]></category>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/81#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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 Route 207 (Ruggs &#8211; Mitchell)</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/90</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/90#comments</comments>
		<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>Oregon Route 224 &#8216;Clackamas Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/678</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/678#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 17:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/677#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 05:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>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>Washington State Route 142</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/71</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/71#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eastern WA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington State Route 142 is one of those odd little rural highways that were carved out of the native landscape to serve some of the small and medium sized town in the area. The section from Goldendale to the first set of twisties is about 8 miles long, but once you&#8217;ve got the straight section [...]]]></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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