{"id":10605,"date":"2021-11-15T11:35:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=10605"},"modified":"2021-11-14T11:38:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T18:38:15","slug":"discovering-lake-gulch-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/discovering-lake-gulch-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering Lake Gulch Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m28!1m12!1m3!1d395163.2008499209!2d-105.04270100444498!3d39.306106266753595!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!4m13!3e0!4m3!3m2!1d39.5823691!2d-104.8729778!4m3!3m2!1d39.2706709!2d-104.7370122!4m3!3m2!1d39.0286298!2d-104.7781091!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1636913235839!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"497\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Discovering&#8221; here is a sorta, kinda thing. I&#8217;m pretty sure I rode at least part of this road once before but could not have taken you back there and only stumbled on it then.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m talking about Lake Gulch Road, which runs south out of Castle Rock and meets up with CO 83 south of Franktown.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll make an aside here, telling you that I&#8217;m playing with Google Maps to show you the entire route we took last week when the RMMRC rode down to Colorado Springs to <a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/new-site-for-rocky-mountain-motorcycle-museum\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit the Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Museum<\/a>. I&#8217;ve never delved deeply into Google Maps so I&#8217;m not real sure how to make it do what you want but as you can see I had some success, although there are two spots (probably obvious) where the software added bits I didn&#8217;t want and I can&#8217;t figure out how to get ride of them.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, we headed out from <a href=\"https:\/\/performancecycle.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Performance Cycle<\/a> over to Sedalia where we were meeting up with a few more riders. We headed south on CO 105 to west of Castle Rock, where we turned east on Wolfensberger Road. I had been on this before but had gone straight on into Castle Rock. This time we turned southeast on Plum Creek Parkway, under I-25, and on to where we turned right onto Lake Gulch Road.<\/p>\n<p>At this point I was extremely interested. I&#8217;m always interested in finding new roads. This one was great. We quickly were out of town and going along a very pretty highway with very little traffic, winding and climbing and just generally being the kind of road motorcyclists always like.<\/p>\n<p>I could tell it was angling southeast so after awhile I figured we would eventually meet up with CO 83, but where? And then we did reach 83 and I now knew that I had taken this road going the other way once. Even now, though, I don&#8217;t know if I came out where we got on it or if maybe I got off onto South Ridge Road, which would have taken me into Castle Rock at a different place. I suspect I did.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, what a nice alternative route this road is. And so far it is still undeveloped, although with Castle Rock exploding that probably won&#8217;t be the case for long. So go ride it now while you can.<\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>I was hit by a moose driving my motorcycle yesterday. How he managed to drive it is a mystery to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Discovering&#8221; here is a sorta, kinda thing. I&#8217;m pretty sure I rode at least part of this road once before but could not have taken you back there and only stumbled on it then. I&#8217;m talking about Lake Gulch Road, which runs south out of Castle Rock and meets up with CO 83 south of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,818],"tags":[1195],"class_list":["post-10605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado-motorcycle-rides","category-rocky-mountain-motorcycle-riders-club","tag-lake-gulch-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10609,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605\/revisions\/10609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}