Discover the Pacific Northwest — One Road at a Time
Trike the Northwest is about exploring one of the most diverse and beautiful regions of North America from a perspective that is hard to beat—the open road. Our travels take us throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and into British Columbia, following everything from famous scenic highways to quiet backroads that wind through mountains, forests, river canyons, farmland, coastal communities, and small towns. The destination is important, but sometimes the road that gets you there turns out to be the best part of the trip.
The Pacific Northwest offers an incredible variety of landscapes. One day can take you through towering evergreen forests and across a mountain pass, while the next finds you riding beside a river, through a high-desert landscape, along the shore of a mountain lake, or following the spectacular Pacific coastline of Washington and Oregon. From wide sandy beaches and towering sea stacks to rocky headlands, coastal forests, historic lighthouses, fishing communities, bays, harbors, and dramatic ocean overlooks, the coast offers an entirely different Northwest riding experience. Add in snowcapped mountains, deep valleys, waterfalls, lakes, rivers, dams, reservoirs, volcanic landscapes, rugged canyons, and scenic byways, and there always seems to be another road worth exploring.
But the Northwest is about much more than mountains and scenery. Agriculture has helped shape the region and provides another reason to get off the highway and explore. We travel through apple, cherry, pear and peach orchards, vineyards and wineries, wheat fields, hop country, potato farms, berry farms, ranching areas, and local farming communities. Seasonal fruit stands, farmers markets, roadside produce, local restaurants, wineries, breweries, festivals, and community events can turn an ordinary ride into something memorable—and give us an opportunity to meet the people who call these places home.
We also explore the remarkable engineering, history, and culture found throughout the Northwest. Massive hydroelectric dams and reservoirs, historic highways, railroad towns, mining communities, museums, lighthouses, national and state parks, monuments, historic districts, mountain towns, coastal communities, and roadside attractions all have stories worth discovering. Some will be well-known destinations, while others may be places you have driven past for years without realizing what was just a few miles down the road.
Above all, Trike the Northwest is about the journey. Whether we're following a legendary scenic byway, riding the Washington or Oregon coast, searching for a great piece of pie in a small town, stopping at an orchard for fresh fruit, crossing a mountain pass, visiting a dam, discovering a hidden lake, watching the waves roll onto a Pacific beach, or simply taking the long way home, we want to share the roads and places that make this region special. If our travels give you an idea for your next ride—or encourage you to turn down a road you've never traveled before—then Trike the Northwest has accomplished exactly what it was created to do.
