California Motorcycle Roads & TOURS
NorCal ~ Central ~ Eastern Sierra ~ Sierra Nevada ~ Foothills ~ SoCal
VIEW MOTORCYCLE ROAD LIST:
VIEW 2026 TOURS
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.
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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
23rd anniversary Year of Pashnit Tours
With our 2026 tour season nearly complete, what's a motorcycle tour business to do?
Plan for the new year 2027.
We're always planning out a over a year in advance. And after selling out 17 tours in 2026, we're planning to conduct another 17 tours in 2027 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 almost every two weeks. We're always excited to conduct our alumni favorites like Death Valley, Northern California and Coast Range Tours, but we're also excited to introduce eleven brand new motorcycle tours over the last two tour seasons.
Why do we create new tours?
Why not just offer the same tours year after year?
It's because our repeat rate is so high. Look closely at our group photos and you will see the same faces, year after year. Our Pashnit Tours Alumni request something new each year.
View our 2027 Pashnit Motorcycle Tour season. Come join our family, and book early.
And if you are Pashnit Tours Alumni, take a look at our new 2027 tour offerings: The Long Way, Shasta Dam, The Thirty-Six, The Grand Tour, Bear Valley, Sierra 360, Vanishing Point Nevada, and the new Napa-Sonoma tour.
And we are going to run a MYSTERY TOUR in 2027 - you have no idea where you are going.
All new Pashnit Motorcycle Tour
April 02, 2027
New motorcycle tours for 2027
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.
Forks of Salmon
Pashnit Motorcycle Tour
May 07, 2027
Ride the Forks of Salmon...
All new motorcycle tour for the 2027 ride season focused on riding the Trinity Alps & Marble Wilderness, riding both Forks of Salmon- Cecilville Rd & Sawyers Bar Rd plus based from Etna.
Bear Valley
June 07, 2027
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.
Sierra 360
All-New
September 03, 2027
One Big Mountain Range. One Big Ride.
SIERRA 360 takes you on a complete circumnavigation of the Sierra Nevada Range, linking the best twisty roads, high mountain passes, remote valleys and forgotten backroads surrounding the range. From the western foothills to the spider roads of the Eastern Sierra, this is a ride through the full spectrum of California mountain country.
One mountain range. One giant loop. 360 degrees of Sierra.
Vanishing Point HIGHWAY
September 17, 2027
Pashnit Motorcycle Tour
Ride the Loneliest Road in America
Ride deep into the vast emptiness of Nevada, where 8,000-foot mountain ranges rise from endless desert valleys and the road can stretch for miles without another vehicle in sight. Follow the legendary Loneliest Highway, the Extraterrestrial Highway and forgotten mining roads through places like Austin, Eureka, Ely, Rachel and Tonopah, where the landscape is as big as the stories are strange. This is Nevada at its most remote—wide-open, wonderfully weird, and exactly the kind of place Pashnit was built to explore.
September 2027
Join us for our
284th TOUR
August 20, 2027
Northern California
Pashnit Motorcycle Tour
Hard to believe! 284 Tours
The very first organized motorcycle tour Pashnit Tours ever conducted was in 2004. It took 24 years, but we'll be conducting our 284th motorcycle tour in 2027. That's a lot of tours, a lot of road miles, and a lot of road time together.
The NorCal Tour is such a favorite with our Tour Alumni, it's been largely unchanged for over two decades, it's just that perfect!
Join us August 20th, 2027. Sign up with the link below.
