CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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National Scenic Byway. Gila Mountains, archaeology, forest. A one-way ride of 157 km, Silver City to Silver City - roughly 3 h 18 in the saddle. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 12 km this is Trail of the Mountain Spirits, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Silver City is the kind of place that makes people wonder why they did not find it sooner. It sits at about 5,900 feet on the edge of the Gila country in southwest New Mexico, a few miles from the Continental Divide, and its brick downtown still carries the mark of the mining boom that created it in the 1870s. A flood in the 1890s carved out the main street into a ravine, and the Big Ditch park now runs where Main Street once was, which is one of those local facts that stops visitors in the middle of the pavement.
Read the complete Near Silver City write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Trail of the Mountain Spirits point 1 sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Trail of the Mountain Spirits point 2.
Silver City is the kind of place that makes people wonder why they did not find it sooner. It sits at about 5,900 feet on the edge of the Gila country in southwest New Mexico, a few miles from the Continental Divide, and its brick downtown still carries the mark of the mining boom that created it in the 1870s. A flood in the 1890s carved out the main street into a ravine, and the Big Ditch park now runs where Main Street once was, which is one of those local facts that stops visitors in the middle of the pavement.
Read the complete Near Silver City write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Trail of the Mountain Spirits point 2 comes up 27 km in. Next is Trail of the Mountain Spirits point 3.
54 km in you reach Trail of the Mountain Spirits point 3. Next is Trail of the Mountain Spirits point 4.
Trail of the Mountain Spirits point 4, late in the day. Next is Trail of the Mountain Spirits point 5.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Near Silver City write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Trail of the Mountain Spirits point 5 sits at 157 km, late in the day.