We’re starting a new periodic column in our newsletter about some of the best and most iconic roads America has to offer. For touring motorcyclists, these routes should definitely be on your bucket list of roads to ride before, as they say, you kick the bucket.

Our first featured Bucket Road is located in north central Arizona and is an excellent route to follow from Flagstaff to Prescott, AZ. Although it’s just under 90 miles long, state Route 89-ALT has it all: beautiful red rock scenery, historic towns along the way, and lot’s of challenging curves and elevation changes.

The fun begins not long after leaving Flagstaff, when 89-ALT plunges from the Mogollon Rim deep into Oak Creek Canyon via narrow switchbacks with numerous hairpin turns. Hollywood has long favored the scenic environs of Oak Creek Canyon for filming Westerns. Next up are the awe-inspiring sandstone formations surrounding the beautiful resort town of Sedona, AZ. But don’t get too comfortable, because the road soon begins its ascent up the Black Hills mountain range. After negotiating countless more hairpin turns, riders find themselves in the former mining town of Jerome, AZ, which affords stunning views of the red sandstone rock formations in the valley below. After a thrilling ride down the mountain, riders soon find themselves in Prescott, where the Old West lives on.

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