{"id":7770,"date":"2016-09-26T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2016-09-24T09:58:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T15:58:31","slug":"examiner-resurrection-a-terrific-motorcycle-sidetrip-in-southwestern-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/examiner-resurrection-a-terrific-motorcycle-sidetrip-in-southwestern-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"Examiner Resurrection: A Terrific Motorcycle Sidetrip In Southwestern Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"

For eight years I was a writer for Examiner.com–the National Motorcycle Examiner, if you will–and in that time I published somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 articles. That relationship ended about a year ago, so it was only a few days ago that I learned Examiner had shut down<\/a> in July 2016, taking down all the many thousands (millions?) of articles done by many, many writers.<\/p>\n

While a lot of my articles were timely and republishing them now would be useless, in my own opinion at least, some of the work I did was very good, remains relevant, and deserves to be resurrected. I had already been republishing some of the very earliest stuff because advances in technology had rendered some early work technologically incompatible, and it had been dropped. Now that list of potential resurrections has grown enormously.<\/em><\/p>\n

A terrific motorcycle sidetrip in southwestern Utah<\/h2>\n

OK, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re riding from California or Las Vegas, trying to make good time and cover a lot of ground, on your way somewhere east. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re staying mostly on the interstate, but passing through southern Utah you hate passing all this beautiful terrain, and you need a quick fix of twisty roads. Do I have a treat for you!<\/p>\n

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  Fun riding just ahead!<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>Cedar City is where you want to get off the superslab. Get onto Utah 14 and head east and you soon find yourself climbing through gorgeous canyons and winding and twisting to your heart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s content. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

After about 18 miles or so you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll want to catch Utah 148 going north. If you liked what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen so far, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in for an even better treat. This road winds through Cedar Breaks National Monument and the numerous view areas are all worth stopping for. The panaromic vistas range from deep, red canyons to mountain views that, on a clear day, extend over 100 miles.<\/p>\n

You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll come to the Brian Head summit, a bit over 10,000 feet in elevation, and see Brian Head itself just to the east. Later in the summer you might even want to ride the 3 miles of good gravel road to the summit, but in late May\/early June when we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re visiting the road still has deep snow on it.<\/p>\n

Over the hump, you come down into the ski resort town of Brian Head, where a sign warning of 13 percent grades gives you a hint of what is ahead. Down the hill you go, again winding and twisting, until you come out to the little town of Parowan, where you rejoin the interstate.<\/p>\n

You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve just enjoyed a 42 mile diversion from I-15 and only added half that distance to your trip. Oh yeah, you can take this route going the other direction, too.<\/p>\n

This is the type of thing riding motorcycles is all about, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it?<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

Give the world and its baggage the middle finger, then get on your bike and ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For eight years I was a writer for Examiner.com–the National Motorcycle Examiner, if you will–and in that time I published somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 articles. That relationship ended about a year ago, so it was only a few days ago that I learned Examiner had shut down in July 2016, taking down all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[814,228],"tags":[712],"class_list":["post-7770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-examiner-resurrection","category-motorcycle-touring","tag-motorcycling-in-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770","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=7770"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7778,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}