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September 2015 Michaux State Forest Road DR650SE Dual Sport Ride
buffalo and I spent a day riding through Michaux State forest after I had done an exploratory trip the day before. There is a vast system, for near DC standards, of gravel and dirt forest roads all through this area. Most are distressingly well maintained, however a few range towards challenging. There are switchbacks up over small mountains, tree covered sunbeam lit passages, and a whole range of scenery.
Pennsylvania Whipples Dam Road
Another track found at ADVRider
Pennsylvania Dual Sport Tracks
I found a set of GPX files over at ADVrider in this thread:
http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/pa-md-va-wv-route...;
Saving them here for posterity.
buffalo
August 2015 Northern Virginia/Maryland Gravel Roads Ride
buffalo (Duncan), who helps me run Miles by Motorcycle, and I took our #dr650se's out across White's Ferry near Poolesville, Maryland to go in search of gravel roads to ride in the area North of Leesburg, Va and South of Frederick, Maryland. We were surprised at the number of tree covered gravel country roads there are in this area. Some went up into the hills and had some nice elevation changes. All were tame and easily traversed by car but it was a beautiful ride nonetheless. Is suspect there are more challenging roads hiding in the hills to the West.
Simple Creek Crossing in the Frederick Municipal Watershed near Frederick Maryland on a Suzuki DR650
We spent a day riding a system of gravel roads near Frederick Maryland. All told there are about 15 miles of mild gravel roads with gentle hills and one smal...
November 2014 Ride in the Frederick Muncipal Watershed
buffalo and I spent a day riding 15 miles of gravel roads around the Frederick Muncipal Watershed near Frederick Maryland.
Oct 2014 Catoctin Area, Maryland Gravel Roads Ride
Weekend gravel roads rides up to Catoctin State Park near Thurmont Maryland. Surprisingly, we found many more miles of nice gravel roads than we had expected. Find Mountaindale road which connects to route 15 via Putman Road. It goes through a neighborhood of log cabins and is more like a driveway than a traveling road. At the end it turns to gravel (where the green line starts). There you will find a system of gravel roads with a few hills and one stream crossing (marked). In the fall it proved to be a beautiful area. Be aware of joggers and riders on horseback.
Grinding Gravel: Frederick County, Maryland Routes
Bicycle oriented blog about gravel roads in the area.
http://grindinggravel.blogspot.com/...
Frederick County Dirt Roads
Frederick County Maryland Dirt Road Database
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...
Gravel Roads - Google Maps
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https://maps.google.com/maps/u/0/ms...
Unpaved in Northern Pennsylvania
Another track courtesy of Gary Weaver.
Off Pavement in Pennsylvania
Recommendations by Gary Weaver from the Facebook BMW MOA group.
Md.'s gravel roads take visitors back in time - USATODAY.com
The Frederick County Rural Roads Program is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with a series of events to showcase the value of gravel roads.
http://travel.usatoday.com/destinat...
buffalo(https://adv-traveler.com/buffalo) and I did our first excursion together on DR650's yesterday. There aren't much in the way of legal unpaved riding opportunities around DC so I thought I'd start this thread as a way of making a collection of unpaved roads and the like in Maryland. I found these tracks on ADVrider. PA, MD, VA, WV Routes (Dirt Roads) - ADVrider(https://adv-traveler.com/136/links/10688/-pa--md--va--wv-routes--dirt-roads----advrider) Not all of the files in the zip were in GPX format so I used : GPS Visualizer(https://adv-traveler.com/136/links/10687/gps-visualizer) to convert that Garmin GDB file format into GPX. The resolution of the tracks isn't great, but at least it gives us some areas to explore. Unpaved Roads in Maryland - courtesy of ADVRider.(https://adv-traveler.com/136/maps/10683/unpaved-roads-in-maryland---courtesy-of-advrider-) According to the thread, the best roads are around Green Ridge State Forest: Green Ridge State Forest | Forest Service | Maryland Department of Natural Resources(https://adv-traveler.com/136/links/10684/green-ridge-state-forest---forest-service---maryland-department-of-natural-resources) Know of any unpaved roads in Maryland?
PA, MD, VA, WV Routes (Dirt Roads) - ADVrider
PA, MD, VA, WV Routes (Dirt Roads) GPS Tracks - Northeast, Southeast & Florida
http://www.advrider.com/forums/show...
Green Ridge State Forest | Forest Service | Maryland Department of Natural Resources
There are supposed to be good unpaved roads around in this area.
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/...
Unpaved Roads in Maryland - courtesy of ADVRider.
In looking for more off pavement opportunities in and around DC, I found these tracks on ADVRider. The best off-road sections are reported to be around GreenRidge National Forest.
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/StateForests/greenri...
Adventure Rider Magazine Two Wheels Across the World
Two Wheels Across the World
http://www.advridermag.com
July 2014 Dual Sport Weekend
I failed to post this map. Some many weekends ago I went on a two day "dual sport" ride through West Virginia along some unpaved country roads. On of these, Route 13, proved to be moderately challenging and was not traversable by car as it went through three largish creeks and involved some modestly steep rutted hill climbs and a good amount of deep mud puddles. All in all a very good weekend.