Shawn, I'll take your word for it since I no longer live in Oregon. I will say that WA-14 did seem really nice at 7ish am on a Saturday morning. Maybe we just got through before the tourist traffic started.
Since the Hood River bridge doesn't allow bicycles, do either the 197 or 97 bridges allow it? On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Shawn Granton < urbanadventurelea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, SR 14 can be busy. And there's quite a bit of tractor trailer action > too, which isn't fun when there is little to no shoulder. Traffic lessens > the further east you go, but the section between Bridge of the Gods and > Bingen can be gnarly. Plus, the Hood River Bridge is off limits to > cyclists, so if you are on the Washington side and want to cross, you'll > need to hitch a ride. > > The counterpoint to the Mount Hood views from the Washington side is the > views of Mount Adams you'd get from the Oregon side. > > The biggest deal breaker with the Oregon side is the unavoidable section > of I-84. > > Shawn > On Jun 5, 2014 7:18 AM, "Jim Bronson" <jim.bron...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> SR-14 is busy? I didn't think so when I rode it, granted, it was on a >> Saturday morning. As for the tunnels, there are buttons before each tunnel >> you can push to activate warning lights to let drivers know that there are >> cyclists in the tunnel. I left my taillights on throughout the Gorge >> section also so that they would be lit up in the tunnels. >> >> The only part that I found busy was the intersection of US97 and it >> wasn't that bad. FWIW, we continued on all the way to Plymouth, WA, which >> was quite a ways down the road, before turning north. >> >> Taking SR-14 on the Washington side also affords you some excellent views >> of Mt. Hood looking across the river, that you can't get from the Oregon >> side. >> >> That being said, if the powers that be extend the bike trail on the >> Oregon side all the way to Hood River, that would be a real nice option. >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Shawn Granton < >> urbanadventurelea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> If it were me, I'd stick to the south (Oregon) side the whole way to >>> Deschutes River. SR 14 is fairly busy, just two lanes with minimal >>> shoulders in places, and also feature a series of tunnels. Right now you >>> can avoid riding on I-84 from Troutdale to Hood River for all but about 15 >>> miles between Cascade Locks and Hood River. (They just completed a section >>> of the Historic Columbia River Hwy trail right around Bonneville, and the >>> state and other agencies seem to really be serious about completing the >>> missing link of trail in a shortish amount of time.) >>> >>> Staying on SR-14 also means missing out on one of the best sections of >>> the old Historic Columbia River Hwy: between Hood River and The Dalles. The >>> Rowena Curves are pretty awesome, and you don't want to miss the chance >>> that the ex-mayor of Mosier taking a pic of you in front of the Mosier >>> Totems. >>> >>> -Shawn >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, June 3, 2014 3:28:36 PM UTC-7, Jim Bronson wrote: >>> >>>> https://goo.gl/maps/NeMmX >>>> >>>> Parallel roads on the south side of I-84 west of Bridge of the Gods. >>>> Ride WA-14 though the narrowest parts of the Gorge, much nicer. >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
