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Visiting Vegas this week and wanting to know if any locals can recommend a good scenic riding route or meet up and do some riding.
Will have rental for this Wednesday. Last year did valley of fire and Hoover dam. Any suggestions? Thanks.
 
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http://www.nps.gov/zion/index.htm
Mostly freeway to St George to Hurricane Utah . Zion is beautiful to ride through. And it's cooler we have been 103 last couple of days.
 

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I have a ride to Rachel NV on my bucket list.
Any atomic test sites, military museums, neon museums, LV Motor Speedway, Nellis AFB..
 
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Well i'm from Oregon and when i went on a scenic drive in Las Vegas area i was extremely disappointed. In Oregon every turn is a postcard so i was not impressed with Nevada's scenic byways.
 
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As mentioned above, the Zion ride is nice. Red Rock canyon is a nice loop too. It's going to be hot this week, be ready.
 
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Check out motorcycle roads. See what people think about rides in the area.
 
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Red Rock Canyon, Mt, Charleston, and Valley Of Fire. Wife and I rented a street glide and rode them while we were there last year. The rental was our idea of an extended test ride to see if we liked the street glide enough to buy one. Oh and we did it in August, bit warm that time of year but it's cool up on Mt Charleston.
 

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Red Rock is really nice.
 
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I'll second Red Rock. Did that one and then zipped out to Mt Charleston. nice little day of riding.
 
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Thanks everybody for the feedback. So looks like red rock canyon and mt charleston are the places to hit since we covered valley of fire and hoover dam last year.
In motorcycle rides website someone suggested mt charleston and then heading up to the ski lodge areas as its scenic, cooler and more forest like as opposed to the hot dessert.
We moved our riding day from wednesday to tue and will be at HD las vegas tomorrow around 9am. If anyone cares to meetup or join us shoot me an im.
Thanks again and be blessed, not stressed.
 


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