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Motorcycle Routes - West Houston/Katy etc.

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I never really thanked @blupupher for this ... I live in Katy so this is my go to for a quick ride. When I first started riding here after many years of not riding, this is where I started from. Over the last couple of years I have created versions of this from 1 hr to 3 hr and they have all been so much fun.
 
Tourmeister said:
If you go just a little bit further to the NE, there are fun paved roads near Lake Livingston, and then just beyond the lake there is FM 350, 3152, 942, 1745, 352, and 1987. I've not been out there recently so if it is like many other places, new homes and businesses are being built like crazy as people move out/away from Houston. Many of my favorite dirt roads are being ruined by "improvements" :roll:

There are also paved roads North of Huntsville that are fun: FMs 2346, 1119, 811, 1511, 831, 977, 3, 1452, 2289, to name a few.

It has to be tough living anywhere in Houston and wanting to do anything other than cruise up and down busy streets! Huntsville is a good jumping off point for a lot of decent dirt and paved riding, at least by Texas standards ;-)
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There are many good curvy roads just west and NW of Houston. We ride every weekend and meet at the Waller Bucees.
 
Reading all of these great suggestions, thanks blupupher for all of the great ideas. Can't wait to go ride some of these roads!
 
blupupher said:
These are all roads I take on a regular basis.

A "quick" loop I do (that I literally got back from 20 minutes ago) is from Katy down I-10 to Brookshire, South on 1489 to Simonton, west on 1093 to FM1458, then north on 1458 through Frydek, back across I-10 to the north side of 1458 from San Felipe to Pattison (and I take a little detour loop on 3318 just after the Brazos River bridge around to Robichaux road back to 1458), then north on FM359 to a little street called Adams Field Road to Wilson Road, then take a right on 362 to Morton, which will bring me back home.
Depending on your exact start point, it is just under 2 hours to ride it and around 75 miles.
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Another road I like is FM331 off FM 529 just outside of Bellville. The north side of it turns into Oil Field Road, and is paved, but rough. That brings you up near Hempstead, but you can take Racoon Bend (turns into FM 1456) towards Buckhorn, then head north on FM 1371 which will bring you almost to Chapel Hill. You can ride 1155 North of Chapel Hill up to 105. Once there you can either turn right to head towards Navasota to ride FM 3090, or turn left to ride towards independance to ride 390. If you ride 3090, you can head back down towards Anderson and then ride 149 to Mongomery.

There are tons of roads in Austin, Grimes and Washington Counties that are great 4-8 hour rides.
Some of the funner roads I have ridden I found just by riding around and turning somewhere off the main roads. 390 was one I did not know about and just came across it one day.

Just curious, what bike you ride?


That road was a huge, fun surprise the first time I rode it. I never knew it was there till I was heading down it.
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Just wanted to thank you for this, been looking for a good loop for 3 years... Took this the other night and you nailed it.
 
If you've ever tried setting up a custom route on Google maps, you'll see why he did it that way. once you post a link for somebody else, it typically messes up the route unless you post multiple separate routes on the same map, which is what he did here. Honestly, it's kind of better. Every time you get to a point in the route that it starts a new, it will ask you to continue trip.
 
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