Part 1 | Motorcycle Riding Alaska's Seward Highway - National Scenic Byway

My favorite motorcycle road of all time is from Anchorage to Seward on Alaska's Seward Highway. I have motorcycled all or parts of this scenic highway countless times. It is the most spectacular 120-mile stretch of smooth pavement I have ever encountered in my 30 years of motorcycle riding.

Starting in Anchorage, the Seward Highway drops down from the city and travels the shores of Turnagain Arm. Motorcycling around the first 40 miles of sweeping curves, you have the water on one side and mountains that rise straight up to the 5000' range on the other. The Arm is known for its tidal extremes, so the views on his route vary from expanses of glacial mud as far as the eye can see at low tide, to pods of Beluga whales spouting 50 feet from the road at high tide. Time this scenic motorcycle ride two hours before high tide and you might see a bore tide rushing up the narrow Arm, and windsurfers darting back and forth on the windy days.


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Check back later to Motodometer for Part 2 of this post.