Motorcycle Trip Around Southwest National Parks from Seattle area and back. August 13, 2026 Thru September 25, 2026.
This page is a placeholder while I write up the trip. Forty-four days, twelve National Parks I had never visited, and a total of 7,100+ miles.
The Forty-Four day trip
Home to Mesa Verde – 13 Days
- Trip Day One through Four – August 13 – 16, 2026: Home to Eugene, Oregon, on to Red Bluff, California, then Pinnacles National Park – Click for details of Day 1 to 4 of the ride ...
- Trip Day Five through Eight – August 17 – 20, 2026: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, down the mountain to Tulare, then across to Pahrump, Nevada – Click for details of Day 5 to 8 of the ride ...
- Trip Day Nine through Thirteen – August 21 – 25, 2026: Zion, Bryce Canyon, Utah Highway 12, Capitol Reef, Arches and Canyonlands, then on to Mesa Verde – Click for details of Day 9 to 13 of the ride ...
Colorado and New Mexico – 15 Days
- Trip Day Fourteen through Eighteen – August 26 – 30, 2026: Mesa Verde, the Million Dollar Highway to Montrose, and the Black Canyon of the Gunnison – Click for details of Day 14 to 18 of the ride ...
- Trip Day Nineteen through Twenty-three – August 31 – September 4, 2026: Over Monarch Pass to Great Sand Dunes, then Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Valles Caldera and Bandelier – Click for details of Day 19 to 23 of the ride ...
- Trip Day Twenty-four through Twenty-eight – September 5 – 9, 2026: Roswell, Carlsbad Caverns, Guadalupe Mountains, over Cloudcroft to Alamogordo and White Sands – Click for details of Day 24 to 28 of the ride ...
Arizona, California, and the Coast Home – 16 Days
- Trip Day Twenty-nine through Thirty-three – September 10 – 14, 2026: Safford, the Coronado Trail, Petrified Forest, Salt River Canyon and Saguaro – Click for details of Day 29 to 33 of the ride ...
- Trip Day Thirty-four through Thirty-seven – September 15 – 18, 2026: Yuma, Joshua Tree and Death Valley – Click for details of Day 34 to 37 of the ride ...
- Trip Day Thirty-eight through Forty – September 19 – 21, 2026: Up the Eastern Sierra on US-395, over Tioga Pass, and across the Golden Gate – Click for details of Day 38 to 40 of the ride ...
- Trip Day Forty-one through Forty-four – September 22 – 25, 2026: The redwoods, the Oregon coast to Astoria, then home – Click for details of Day 41 to 44 of the ride ...
New National Parks on this trip
Twelve National Parks I had never been to, bringing me to 36 of the 63:
- Pinnacles
- Sequoia
- Kings Canyon
- Death Valley
- Mesa Verde
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison
- Great Sand Dunes
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Guadalupe Mountains
- White Sands
- Petrified Forest
- Saguaro
What worked, what did not
Coming soon.
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