Fabulous riding country/roads in Montana. There are miles of great side hack roads all over the state. If you tire of freeway driving most MT. Interstates have parallel frontage roads or secondary roads which slow down the pace and get you out of the insane high speed stuff, if that's what you want. We toured/camped in Yellowstone Park and area in July and what a gas. The only way to see the park. The pace is slower and that's just fine while sight seeing. Labor Day we plan on the Grand Teton area of Wyoming, and then back to Yellowstone. We are lucky to be working in this area for the summer. So many roads and not quite enough time!
i am originaly from Miles City,MT and you are right,there are too many good roads to even consider the interstate.if you haven't done it yet,Lolo Pass from Missoula to Lewiston Idaho is a great ride.liked it so well i road it twice!
Western MT. is as good as it gets. I have a friend in Miles City and he rides all over the state and never hits a paved road. There is still a series of manned ferry boats which cross the MissouriRiver in Rural areas as there are no bridges. He did a trip a couple years ago and hit every ferry in the state, all on gravel roads. I prefer to stay on pavement with the hack, but when you start looking at all the back gravel roads in the state the possiblities are unlimited.
Idaho is much the same. I can drive 2 1/2 hours to Boise on the highway or 5 hours on the dirt. Much more entertaining on the dirt, though I do enjoy the highway also.
As for Yellowstone, you can't beat a sidecar rig for sight seeing. Better field of view than a car and more stable that 2 wheels for rubbernecking. The Chief Joseph highway to the North entrance from Cody Wyoming has a ton of switchbacks which I find challenging but fun. The road from Redlodge to the North entrance climbs to almost 9,500 feet (saw ice in August) and also has a lot of switchbacks. The only drawback is the tourist traffic which has the habit of suddenly stopping in the middle of the road to look at the wildlife.
Ahhhh, Idaho. In my opinion Idaho has some of the best country in the west. Our travels have taken us through nearly every paved road in the state. I went through the Sawtooth area last summer. Unfortunately I drove right into a freshly started forest fire near Stanley. Watched the choppers and bombers attack it for a while from a few miles out. The bomber pilots have some big gonads! What a sight. A few years ago near the Craters of the Moon I took a large football shaped rock right through my RV windshield. It came out from between a trucks duals and came right through the drivers side windshield. I ducked and luckily it missed me by a few inches. Came through the windshield like it was a piece of paper.Then richocheted around me before breaking the windshield again from the inside.Never touched me, just a major glass shower. I have always cringed a bit when meeting a truck on the motorcycle, now I cringe a bit more!
you was a lucky guy that day im from england and we went out one day for a ride, a group of motorbike sidecars,and a sheep fell off the grass verge and landed in a sidecar lucky noone was in it at the time..
