CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Seattle it runs 381 km to Seattle; allow about 8 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Olympic National Park, Olympic Mountains and back through Olympic National Park. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Seattle runs on water. The city is squeezed between Puget Sound on the west and Lake Washington on the east, and is cut through by canals and bridges, so that every day involves a shore of some kind. Elliott Bay holds the working waterfront, with the ferry terminal at Colman Dock and the old piers, and ferries still carry commuters and tourists to Bainbridge Island and Bremerton, past a skyline that looks best from the deck.
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Seattle is where the day begins. Next is Olympic National Park.
It lies in the park's interior, in the folded, glaciated heart of the range where no road goes, so a motorcyclist will only ever see the mountains from the edges. The Olympics rise straight out of Puget Sound and the Pacific, reaching nearly 2,400 metres at Mount Olympus, and they catch so much moisture from the ocean that their western valleys are among the wettest places in the continental United States.
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Olympic National Park comes up 65 km in. Next is Olympic Mountains.
130 km in you reach Olympic Mountains. Next is back through Olympic National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Olympic National Park write-up.
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back through Olympic National Park, late in the day. Next is Seattle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Seattle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Seattle. That is the ride.
Seattle → Olympic National Park is 115 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Olympic National Park → Olympic Mountains is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Olympic Mountains → back through Olympic National Park is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Olympic National Park → Seattle is 115 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.