Why this ride
Scenery first, traffic last, with checkpoints that make sense on a bike. 219 km round from Seattle - plan on about 3 h 14 of riding. Long stretches are under trees.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mount Rainier Paradise Roads
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 219 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 14
- Journey
- Loop
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Seattle
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.
2. Rainier
Despite the name, the town of Rainier is not on the mountain. It is a small place in south Thurston County, Washington, strung along State Route 507 between Tenino and Yelm, a farming and commuter town of a couple of thousand people on the prairies south of Puget Sound. On a clear day, though, the mountain it is named after looms on the eastern horizon like a second sky, white and enormous, and you understand the choice.
3. Seattle
Return visit. Read the place description above.