The Best Bike Rides in Every State | Bicycling
Truly great cycling routes can be found in all 50 states, from Maine to Hawaii.
What makes an ideal cycling route? For some, it might be a flat—the flatter the better—meander through Kansas or along a South Carolina beachfront. It might be a multi-hour grunt up an above-treeline Colorado pass. It might be a jackhammer rip through a rock garden in Arizona or Vermont. It might be a bike-path cruise to the best ice cream, or margarita, or burger, or wine—anywhere. Coffee shop, check. Wide shoulders, check. For every lighthouse in Maine, there’s an S-curve in California, just waiting to test the stickiness of the rubber on your tires.
WASHINGTON
Lopez Island
Everywhere on Lopez Island, you see bicycles: Leaning against cedar trees, pink tulips planted in their baskets; in the back of vintage blue Chevy trucks; parked outside Holly B’s Bakery in the village, where the wooden sign above the door reads mayor. When you get to the corner of Lopez Road and Military Road, there’s a weathered yellow bike mounted way up on an equally weathered barn, and it’s such a made-for-Instagram photo op that hundreds of cleats have beaten a path into the grass, just to capture a perfect and nostalgic image.
Lopez Island
Everywhere on Lopez Island, you see bicycles: Leaning against cedar trees, pink tulips planted in their baskets; in the back of vintage blue Chevy trucks; parked outside Holly B’s Bakery in the village, where the wooden sign above the door reads mayor. When you get to the corner of Lopez Road and Military Road, there’s a weathered yellow bike mounted way up on an equally weathered barn, and it’s such a made-for-Instagram photo op that hundreds of cleats have beaten a path into the grass, just to capture a perfect and nostalgic image.
