Easy riding
From cruising on your ‘hog’ or popping a wheelie on your KTM, riding in Sisters is about as good as it gets. Cross-country, enduro, Supermoto, MX… yeah, it’s all good in Sisters. Bring it on. Hard to say what’s better – the riding or the meeting up in town.
Where to ride:
• The McKenzie-Santiam Pass Loop at around 80 miles is the big daddy. Jaw-dropping views are the payout. Winding roads, sharp bends, and steady climbs are the easy-to-pay toll. Midway is like landing on the moon where lava fields are geologic wonders best viewed from the Dee Wright Observatory.
• The Cloverdale Loop. A little bit of everything on this ride – bucolic hay fields, alpaca ranches, a winery, longhorn cattle, multi-million-dollar horse farms, a wildlife preserve, abandoned mine, western art gallery, meandering streams….
• Getting dirty. Sisters, surrounded on three sides by national forest, will thrill you with hundreds of miles of unpaved roads, with two-lane “avenues” leading to pristine creeks and lakes. Sisters has some of nature’s most stunning landscapes, many snowcapped year round.
That’s just a sample. Not too far away are the Oregon Badlands and the spectacular Cascade Loops.
What to expect?
It all starts with the big welcome mat. Sisters folk share your sense of adventure — helpful professionals like the team down at Sisters Moto. The terrain is as vast as your imagination. We have ridiculously cool camping options. And a slew of trails and roads into nature’s wonderland that starts – or ends – right downtown.
Park and hike. Park and fish. Park and camp.
Hardtails Bar & Grill welcomes riders, in keeping with its theme.
Insiders say:
“It is a lovely backroad experience. Santiam Pass has views of Mt. Washington, Three Fingered Jack, as well as the Three Sisters. Along the McKenzie Pass, the Three Sisters are close at hand. It gives great access to hiking trails into the wilderness with lots of alpine lakes nearby as well as waterfalls.” – All Trails
“Our local community of riders is impressive and not only in numbers! We come from all walks of life. We take care of each other on the trail, and we act as good land stewards and ambassadors to the visiting outdoor enthusiasts we encounter.” — Rick Leiberson, local rider
“Kinda hard to find a better basecamp than Sisters for days and miles of getting your riding fix. We rode about 250 miles in all directions over two days and didn’t see the same thing twice.”– Outback Riders
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