Need suggestions for a good ride through Washington, Oregon & up through Canada.

 

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Depends on where you are starting from in Oregon and where you want to end up .
You can take 101 up the coast all the way to Port Angles WA and take a ferry to Victoria BC on Vancouver Island that’s a nice ride if it isn't raining .
If it's raining you may want to go into central OR where it is usually drier .You can go by way of Crater Lake and Bend OR in to central WA again drier then western WA .
There are several passes in WA that would bring back towards Seattle from central WA .My favorite is and a beautiful ride is HWY 410 Chinook Pass it takes you into Mt Rainer NP south of Seattle .
My least favorite is Snoqualmie Pass I-90 brings you right into Seattle but is boring.
Stevens Pass HWY 2 another beautiful ride brings just north of Seattle.
Another pass is the North Cascade HWY 20 almost to the Canadian border is great ride as well.
Everything depends on where you start from and want to end up. Be flexible mainly because of the weather. By the way it doesn’t always rain Seattle. Most of our rain is in the Fall & Winter our summers are dry.

 

Anyone doing the 2011 laughlin run this spring from the Everett area ??

 

You can't go wrong with any pass over the Cascades...it's all beautiful. But I-90 is a four lane freeway...like Sky Drifter...I'd avoid it. The North Cascades Highway 20 goes right through a National Park. Be sure and stop at the rest stops along the way...and take the little five minute hike that will take you to the most gorgeous view you can imagine...well worth the little effort. Highway 2 (Stevens Pass) is another awesome ride. It follows a very scenic Skykomish River...VERY beautiful.

From Yakima, there are two or three ways you can go...like Skydrifter said, Chinook Pass Hwy 410 is awesome...but I'd not go straight to Seattle unless you are really on a tight time schedule. Take the side trip to Mt Rainier National Park and Paradise inside the park...DON"T MISS PARADISE...they call it that for a reason...YOU WON"T REGRET it...even if it rains....B-Friggen-eutiful. I'd still come in from this way, into Ashford, (Mountain Climbing Capital...stop at Whitakers Bunkhouse for a coffee/esspresso and see the museum of stuff LOU WHITAKER has there on display, or even stay the night) and on through Elbe...Stop in Elbe to see the Steam Locomotives they sell tickets and you can go for a ride...talk about IRON HORSE!!! Then onto Eatonville...if you really want to stay backroadish...take the road from Eatonville and go out along Ohop Lake, Kapowsin Lake, and into Orting on Orville Road. After Orting, it all gets suburban and will come out in Sumner the same place if you stayed on Hwy 410...But going through Orting, you'll see a lot more country and small town Western Washington. If you go this way, stop in Orting at the Bicycle Shop...I own it. No lies, this is the most beautiful way onto Seattle and the least amount of Freeways, Four Laners and Traffic. Can't go wrong No matter which way you go.

White Pass Hwy 12 is probably not as picturesque as Chinook, BUT if you follow it onto Packwood, and then onto Morton, you;ll see a bit different climate in Washington State...it is like another territory...the Packwood Morton Valley...can't explain it but is cool. Then in Morton head north to Elbe where you'd come out if you took the side Trip to Paradise and Mount Rainier.

If I had the choice and it was my first time, and I had a couple extra hours, I'd go Yakima/Hwy 410, Turn onto Hwy 123 Cayus Pass to where it turns off into Mt Rainier National Park to Paradise in the National Park, come out of the Park in Ashford, (State Route 706 turns into State Hwy 7 or "Mountain Hwy"...same road depending on who calls it) onto Elbe, to Eatonville Cutoff Road, to Eatonville, turn right in Eatonville at the four way stop and that will put you on State Hwy 161. A quarter mile out of Eatonville at the bottom of the hill, turn right onto Orville Road East and that will take you along Ohop Lake, and onto Kapowsin. At Kapowsin (a four way stop) is a good place for a Hamburger, Fry's, and a Beer at the Kapowsin Tavern...(BIKER FRIENDLY)...turn right at the Four way Stop (still on Orville Rd E. to Hwy 162 T-Left to Orting. Orting has a good place to stop for a beer and whatever at the Firehouse Tavern...(Biker Friendly) and onto Sumner and back to Hwy 410 then up Hwy 167 to Seattle via I-90, and I-5. This is a backroad but is worth it. NICE Country roads, twisty's, farmland...rural...etc...no disappointments.