California Motorcycle Roads & TOURS
NorCal ~ Central ~ Eastern Sierra ~ Sierra Nevada ~ Foothills ~ SoCal
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Latest New Road Trips:
Bolinas Ridge - Ridgecrest Blvd
Sherman Pass - Nine Mile Canyon
Highway 175 - Hopland Grade
Knoxville Berryessa Rd - Lake Berryessa
Hot Springs Rd - Mtn 50 - Parker Pass
Highway 190 - Western Divide Highway
Forks of Salmon + All new 2026 Tour
Highway 160 - Sacramento River Delta
Cottonwood - Cherry Lake Loop
Wentworth Springs Rd
White Mountain Rd - Bristlecone Pines
Highway 158 - June Lake Loop
Zenia Bluff - Ruth Zenia Rd
Alderpoint Rd
Benton Crossing Rd
Lower Rock Creek Rd
Manzanar War Internment Camp
Highway 89 - Lassen Volcanic NP
Highway 245 - 4-year-old in church
Highway 49 - Yuba Pass
Avenue of the Giants
Malakoff Diggins Gold Mine
The year was 1999.
Prince was promising a party.
Y2K was about to crash every computer on earth creating global chaos.
...and Pashnit was launched. A simple hand-built site. No grand plan. No web skills. A second hand 35mm camera, film prints, a flatbed scanner and a Kawasaki ZX-11D. Basic writing skills, no spell correction. There was one simple motivation.
"I have to tell someone about this road!"
Pashnit.com (pronounced 'passionate') was built to provide you insight on where to ride in California. Started by uploading 30 pages of roads, Pashnit soon grew 10x that number into the largest website in the world dedicated to exploring California Motorcycle Roads. Those initial 30 simple web pages grew to over 600 pages of text, thousands of photos & maps, and comprising 241,138 files. California Motorcycle Roads quickly became a must see for any motorcyclist planning the Next Big Ride.
Check out the latest new California Motorcycle Roads page & Subscribe below to be the first to see new roads:
California Motorcycle Roads
Intelligence on
EVERY Good Road in the state.
For the Love of the Ride.
Dear Pashnite,
The 1999-era California Motorcycle Roads you have used for the last 20 years to plan your rides has been retired.
Two decades later, it's time to rebuild. At present, there are only a few pages of roads completed. There are more coming. A lot of work will go into building a site like this from scratch. It will take time. Thousands of hours, years actually. I think only a crazy person would attempt a project like this. Which is why there is no equal. The original California Motorcycle Roads had 330 webpages of roads, 600 pages of text, thousands of photos, tens of thousands of links and was made up of 241,148 files. I would like to double that. It will take time to rebuild this site so check back from time to time. I appreciate your support over the last 20 years. Hundreds more road pages are coming.
Want to help? Consider donating $20 to help support this site.
The all-new California Motorcycle Roads will be 100% free to access, 100% ad free, and all meat & potatoes information on where to ride.
Click Here to link to the all-new California Motorcycle Roads.
Latest NEW Road
Bolinas Ridge - Ridgecrest Blvd
Most scenic road in California?
You decide.
Just miles from downtown San Francisco...
...and no one has ever heard of it. Bolinas Ridge has to be one of the most scenic viewpoints of downtown San Francisco and the Pacific Ocean. Plus, the ride up to Mount Tamalpais is well worth this super twisty ride up the Coastal Range.
Click to continue reading...
Ride the Sierra
Sherman Pass Rd
The most Southern Mountain Pass
Latest NEW Road
Highway 175 - Hopland Grade
Crookedest Road in California
Whoever said that probably doesn't get out much. But we don't care. We just want to ride.
And Hopland Grade connects Clear Lake with Hopland over the Rock Mountain Ridgeline. Learn the history of this region of Lake County and ride endless twisty road.
Click button to continue reading...
All NEW Road
Highway 190 - Western Divide Highway
250 Curves in 25 Miles
Latest NEW Destination
Read the WWII story of Japanese
Manzanar War Internment Camp
Selling Out! - 23rd anniversary Year of Pashnit Tours
With our 2025 tour season complete, what's a motorcycle tour business to do?
Plan for the new year 2026.
We're always planning out a over a year in advance. And after selling out 17 tours in 2025, we're planning to conduct another 17 tours in 2026 spanning February through November. The riding season is long in California & we're taking full advantage of our long ride season. It's busy around here with tours offered every two weeks. We're always excited to conduct our alumni favorites like Parkfield, Northern California and Coast Range Tours, but we also introduced four brand new motorcycle tours for 2026. We're headed back to Southern California, and an all-new route exploring the Coast Range of Oregon. Plus riding the three mountain peaks surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area in one weekend for the all-new Twisted Sisters Tour.
View our 2026 Pashnit Motorcycle Tour season. Don't miss out. Book early. And if you are Pashnit Tours Alumni, take a look at our new 2026 tour offerings of Shasta Dam, Forks of Salmon, Bear Valley & Mammoth Yosemite.
All new Pashnit Motorcycle Tour
April 03, 2026
New motorcycle tour for 2026
Join Pashnit Tours as we pay a visit to the Shasta Dam, descend 400 feet inside the dam to the base and explore the interior of one of the most impressive engineering achievements in California.
Pashnit Motorcycle Tour
May 08, 2026
Ride the Forks of Salmon...
All new motorcycle tour for the 2026 ride season focused on riding the Trinity Alps & Marble Wilderness, riding both Forks of Salmon- Cecilville Rd & Sawyers Bar Rd plus based from Etna.
June 05, 2026
all-new
Pashnit Motorcycle Tour
Ride the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range
We've been just about everywhere in the Sierra Nevada Range. But we've never been inside a cave. Tour the inside of California Cavern plus ride the Sierra Nevada Mountain Passes. Join us for an re-imagined & re-designed tour based at Bear Valley Ski Resort at 6600 ft while still riding our favorite: Pacific Grade, Ebbetts, Monitor & Sonora Pass.
Oregon
Coast Range
September 04, 2026
Pashnit Motorcycle Tour
MAMMOTH YOSEMITE
September 18, 2026
Pashnit Motorcycle Tour
Ride the Volcanic Tablelands
Pashnit Tours introduces an all-new tour for 2026 focused on the eastern high sierra mountain region known as the Volcanic Tablelands. We'll ride to Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, Tioga Pass, Mammoth, Devils Postpile NM & Minarets Vista plus checking out June Lake, Mono Lake & Hot Creek Geologic Site.
Join us for an all new tour of the Sierra Nevada mountain passes & the high sierra regions around Mammoth in the Eastern Sierra Range on Sept 18, 2026.
Join us for our
267th TOUR
August 21, 2026
Northern California
Pashnit Motorcycle Tour
Hard to believe! 267 Tours
The very first organized motorcycle tour Pashnit Tours ever conducted was in 2004. It took 23 years, but we'll be conducting our 267th motorcycle tour in 2026. Largely symbolic, we know, but that's a lot of tours, a lot of road miles, and a lot of time together. By pure coincidence, the 267th tour will be the same one we launched the company with.
The NorCal Tour is such a favorite with our Tour Alumni, it's been largely unchanged for over 20 years, it's just that perfect!
Join us August 14th, 2026. Sign up with the link below.
