Motorcycle Tour USA: Appalachians & Bourbon Trail

Your USA motorcycle tour begins with the scheduled flight to Washington D.C. After landing, the guide is already waiting at the airport and takes you to a mid-range hotel near the airport. Depending on arrival time, the first tour briefing takes place that same evening or the following morning.

The second day of your Appalachian motorcycle tour is free, for example for an optional city tour to the White House, Lincoln Memorial and Arlington. In the late afternoon you collect your motorcycle and ride back to the hotel near Washington D.C.

As a true Harley-Davidson USA tour, the stage heads first to York, Pennsylvania, where you witness the production of Softail, Touring and CVO models. Then you visit the Gettysburg Bike Week including the Battlefield Park, before the route reaches Harpers Ferry on the Potomac River in the evening.

This stage of the guided USA motorcycle tour leads through the winding Fort Valley to Seneca Rocks State Park, one of the few mountain massifs in the eastern USA. Along quiet highways the route continues through Virginia and West Virginia to the Gallipolis, Ohio area.

On the way to the Kentucky motorcycle tour you cross varied hill country and former coal-mining areas of Ohio. After crossing the Ohio River you reach Frankfort and kick off the Kentucky Bourbon Trail with the world-famous Buffalo Trace Distillery.

This short, winding onroad USA motorcycle tour takes you to the Four Roses distillery in Lawrenceburg and on to the Jim Beam American Stillhouse, the largest bourbon producer in the USA. You stay overnight in Bardstown, where the Heaven Hill distillery can also be visited in the afternoon.

After a stop at Maker's Mark, the last distillery on this Tennessee motorcycle tour, you cross Daniel Boone National Forest. In the afternoon you reach Knoxville and finally the Smoky Mountains motorcycle tour base in Townsend for the next three nights.

The day trip leads via the new Foothills Parkway to the legendary Dragon Tail motorcycle tour: 318 curves in just 17 kilometres on Highway 129. At the Deals Gap Resort the Tree of Shame recalls overconfident riders, before the Cherohala Skyway takes you along the Appalachian ridge.

Past Gatlinburg, your Appalachian motorcycle tour follows the French Broad River to the well-known biker meeting point Bobarossa Saloon. Via the winding Highway 209, the Rattler, you reach Maggie Valley and visit the Wheels Through Time motorcycle museum before returning to Townsend.

The Blue Ridge Parkway motorcycle tour heads through Great Smoky Mountains National Park and past numerous viewpoints to Little Switzerland for a lunch stop. Over countless curves through Pisgah National Forest the route continues to the Blowing Rock/Boone area.

The first longer stop on this Virginia motorcycle tour is Mabry Mill, the most-photographed subject on the Parkway. Via Roanoke and George Washington National Forest the route continues through the Appalachians to overnight accommodation in the Lexington area.

The Skyline Drive motorcycle tour travels along the 160-kilometre ridgeline through Shenandoah National Park. After a lunch stop in Front Royal, the stage ends with the motorcycle handover near Washington D.C. and a shared farewell dinner.

The final morning of this East Coast USA motorcycle tour is free, before the shuttle transfer to Washington D.C. Airport and the return flight to your departure city. Optionally the trip can be extended with a city break in New York.

Arrival at your chosen departure city in the morning: your USA motorcycle tour ends here, with many kilometres of Appalachian curves, Bourbon Trail delights and memories of the Blue Ridge Mountains in your luggage. We hope to ride with you again soon.