Riding eastern KY

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I’m looking to ride eastern KY next week with my brother from CA. I’m looking for advice on roads for this area. Has the recent storms and flooding affected this area? I’m thinking of ridining east of London KY coming from Becky or Abingdon
Thanks in advance
 
The area east of Berea and south to London has some wonderful roads. We held one of the CB 110 Forum Rallys based out of that area. Berea is a great place to base out of. Plenty of hotels and cool places to eat. Let me see if I can dig up a map for you. Also the Rattlesnake 192 (?) runs from London west to Somerset I believe. We've also done 2 of our Mens Fall Trips based out of Berea. Here is some of a report on one of them

This years Men's Fall Trip took place in south central Kentucky, based out of Berea Ky. Myself (FJR1300 Yamaha), my son (MT-10 Yamaha) son's FIL (Honda ST 1300) a nephew from Nevada (Honda CB 500X) and my younger brother (Triumph Bonneville 1200). 5 days and a little over 1000 miles for the trip. Hot & sunny each day. Crazy weather for late September

here's a couple of pics

Group before leaving

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Big Hill, Ky on Rt 421 in Kentucky our main north-south corridor from the hotel

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typical curvy road

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We particularly wanted to ride this road Ky 192 between London & Somerset that Kentucky has been advertising in the magazines. It was pretty good, but there are better

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the group standing in front of Papa Leno's restaurant in Berea, Ky. Probably the best pizza any of us have ever eaten. We ate dinner there twice it was so good.

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Great little ice cream shop around the corner from Papa Leno's

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none of us planned on weighing ourselves when we got home lol

Lots of great roads down there ... particularly

192 "the Rattlesnake" from London Ky to Somerset Ky
66 from Oneida to Pineville (this was our favorite..what a road)
89 from McKee to Winchester (second favorite..another great road)
39 from Somerset Ky to Lancaster Ky
25 from Berea Ky to London Ky (probably 3rd favorite..very scenic)
627 from Winchester Ky to Paris Ky (through Ky thoroughbred horse country..beautiful scenery and gorgeous horse farms on both sides of the road)

No issues with any of the bikes, no one fell over or crashed. We did eat too much at a few of the restaurants lol. Stayed at the Quality Inn Berea. Staff was great, hotel was clean & reasonable and the indoor pool felt great after a hot day of riding.

Some of the restaurants we'd recommend

Hitz BBQ Berea
The Dinner Bell Berea
The Bus Stop Boonesville
Papa Leno's Berea
Old Town Amish Store Berea
 
Here's some maps from the CB 1100 Rally

A lot of the riding will be through the Daniel Boone Natl Forest and surrounding Appalachian foothills.

Berea Ky is right off of Interstate 75 (Exit 77) and is a nice little artsy town with plenty of shopping and quaint shops to visit art museums, glass blowing etc (especially non riding wives)


Routes based out of Berea

Individual route maps .. CLICK ON MAP TO ENLARGE then go up and click on square box in upper right hand corner of enlarged map to make full size

Double Loop

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66 Loop

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Short Loop 2

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Ferry Loop

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Gorge Loop

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Mini Loop

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Short Loop

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Rattlesnake Loop


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