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I have attached the route for anyone that might want to run it. I'd say it is probably unpaved for at least 75% or more of the route. The start/stop is at the intersection of FMs 247/980 on the North side of Huntsville. It is 296 miles long. We left at 9:30am, ran it clockwise, and we were in Nacogdoches for lunch by 12:30pm. That took about an hour. The vast majority of the roads before Nacogdoches were unpaved and had a LOT of great sand!! We stopped in Huntington on US 69 just SE of Lufkin for a post lunch potty break. James peeled off there and booked back to Huntsville to make dinner for his sweetie. Joe and I continue on. The original route had us exploring the Angelina NF on the East side of US 69. Unfortunately, it seems many former NF roads have become private or they dead end into hunting leases. We eventually had to back track all the way to 69. We did find some little oil paved roads on the West side of 69 through the NF. The attached track does not have all of our dead ends and U-turns on it. At Colmesneil, Joe peeled off and headed for home in Conroe. I was going to slab it back to Huntsville, but it was such a pretty evening and I was having so much fun, I got right back on the dirt West of Colmesneil. That whole stretch between Colmesneil and FM 350 West of Moscow is unpaved and was great! There is also a cut across on FM 980 before Riverside that is all dirt and is nice. I got back to Huntsville about 6:45pm. So figure 9 hours for the whole route with lunch. I rarely got over 45 mph on any of the unpaved stuff and often went slower than that. We ran the speed limit on the paved stuff... mostly... We ran this on big bikes. James was on his 1200 GSA, I was on my 1200 GS, and Joe was on his KTM 990. I was the only one on knobbies and I was really glad to have them!! The other guys did great without them though. This really is a very nice loop with some wonderful roads and beautiful scenery. There were tons of places where we were riding through tunnels of trees.
