Riding to Sturgis from Florida July 29th 2026
Riding to Sturgis from Florida July 29th 2026
This is a once in a lifetime trip for many. We did the 84th Rally and started in Denver and circled around about 2000 miles. We had so much fun that I took the wasted parts out of our next trip. I got it down to 6 days of riding and tons of awesome site seeing you do not want to miss. This site can guide you to do the same trip, ride with us, or just maybe part of it. We hope you can join us and ride safe!
Dates and Locations
Start in Florida 7/29, Dallas, Albuquerque, Salt lake This Year : Durango, CO
Silverton, Ouray, Million Dollar Highway, Flaming Gorge,
Jackson WY
Yellowstone, Beartooth Highway, Cody, Tensleep,
Stay in Devils Tower KOA
Stay in Deadwood
Head to Rapid City for Flight / or ride back to Florida via Tail of the Dragon
The Million Dollar Highway (US 550) is a famously scenic and challenging 25-mile stretch of road between Ouray and Silverton, Colorado, known for its hairpin turns, steep drop-offs, narrow lanes, and lack of guardrails, making it one of America's most dangerous but beautiful drives, often part of the San Juan Skyway. It offers stunning views, historic mining sites, and connects towns like Durango, but requires cautious driving with low speeds (often 25 mph) due to its extreme mountain conditions and winter hazards.
Silverton is a statutory town that is the county seat of, the most populous community in, and the only incorporated municipality in San Juan County, Colorado, United States. The town is located in a remote part of the western San Juan Mountains, a range of the Rocky Mountains.
Durango is a small city in southwestern Colorado, near the New Mexico border. The 19th-century Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad steam train passes mountains and canyons. In the city center, its affiliated Railroad Museum displays restored locomotives, aircraft and a baggage car converted into a movie theater. Nearby, the Powerhouse Science Center offers interactive exhibits in a former power plant.
Jackson is a town in Wyoming’s Jackson Hole valley, home to 3 ski areas: Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Snow King Mountain Resort and Grand Targhee Resort. The Town Square features arches made of shed antlers from the nearby National Elk Refuge. The National Museum of Wildlife Art has works by Andy Warhol and Georgia O’Keeffe. North are the peaks of Grand Teton National Park, as well as vast Yellowstone National Park.

Grand Teton National Park is in the northwest of the U.S state of Wyoming. It encompasses the Teton mountain range, the 4,000-meter Grand Teton peak, and the valley known as Jackson Hole. It’s a popular destination in summer for mountaineering, hiking, backcountry camping and fishing, linked to nearby Yellowstone National Park by the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway.
Yellowstone National Park is a nearly 3,500-sq.-mile wilderness recreation area atop a volcanic hot spot. Mostly in Wyoming, the park spreads into parts of Montana and Idaho too. Yellowstone features dramatic canyons, alpine rivers, lush forests, hot springs and gushing geysers, including its most famous, Old Faithful. It's also home to hundreds of animal species, including bears, wolves, bison, elk and antelope.

Cody is a town in northwest Wyoming. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West has 5 museums. These include the Buffalo Bill Museum, tracing William F. Cody’s life with multimedia displays, and the Draper Natural History Museum, with wildlife exhibits. Nearby, Old Trail Town is a re-created frontier town with 1800s log cabins and a saloon. Buffalo Bill Scenic Byway winds past craggy cliffs to Yellowstone National Park.

Devils Tower is a laccolithic butte, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet from summit to base.

Deadwood is a city in South Dakota known for its gold rush history. Mount Moriah Cemetery has the graves of Wild West figures like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. Exhibits at the Adams Museum include a huge gold nugget and a plesiosaur fossil. The 1892 Historic Adams House is a Victorian mansion with original features. South of town, the George S. Mickelson Trail leads through the Black Hills National Forest.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a massive sculpture carved into Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. Completed in 1941 under the direction of Gutzon Borglum and his son Lincoln, the sculpture's roughly 60-ft.-high granite faces depict U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The site also features a museum with interactive exhibits

"Badlands" refers to a type of dry terrain with soft sedimentary rocks and clay, heavily eroded into rugged formations like buttes and gullies, exemplified by Badlands National Park in South Dakota, known for its rich fossil beds, diverse wildlife (bison, prairie dogs), stunning landscapes, and Native American history, named for the difficulty of travel through it by early explorers. It's a unique geological area protected within a National Park, featuring dramatic colors, minimal vegetation, and a mix of prairie and eroded terrain.

The Needles Highway is a spectacular drive through pine and spruce forests, meadows surrounded by birch and aspen, and rugged granite mountains. Part of Peter Norbeck National Scenic Byway.

Flaming Gorge Reservoir has been a popular Utah attraction for years. It is a huge reservoir providing outstanding opportunity for boating, fishing, skiing, jet skiing, houseboating and other water sports. Three full-service marinas offer launching, storage and maintenance facilities.

The Beartooth Highway (US 212) is a stunning 68-mile scenic drive through Montana and Wyoming, famous as an "All-American Road" and gateway to Yellowstone's northeast entrance, offering dramatic alpine views, switchbacks, glacial lakes, and wildlife, typically open seasonally from late May to October, with elevations near 11,000 feet. Known as "America's Most Beautiful Drive," it winds from Red Lodge, MT, to Cooke City, MT, connecting to Yellowstone, and features vast wilderness and unique landscapes.

Mesa Verde National Park is in southwest Colorado. It's known for its well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings, notably the huge Cliff Palace. The Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum has exhibits on the ancient Native American culture. Mesa Top Loop Road winds past archaeological sites and overlooks, including Sun Point Overlook with panoramic canyon views. Petroglyph Point Trail has several rock carvings

Monument Valley is famous for the scene in Forrest Gump where he stops running, at a spot on US Route 163 known as "Forrest Gump Point", offering iconic views of the valley's buttes between Mexican Hat, Utah, and the Arizona border. It's a popular photo stop where you can pull off the highway to capture the same breathtaking landscape that marked the end of his cross-country run, with visitors often gathering for selfies.
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