Author: Reyn Mansson

Associate Publisher of Ride Texas Magazine, Texas Motorcycle News Blogger and RTM Events Newsletter editor.

The Leakey/Vanderpool area is a good one for autumn colors (unless there’s been a deep drought). FMs 335, 336 and 337, of course are the main draws here any time of year, but autumn is a particularly good time to turn you handlebars this direction, when the summer heat has abated…

We kid, of course. We’re road nerds ourselves. It’s hard not to be when your ride a motorcycle. I mean, you have a much more tactile experience with the road than you do in a car. You learn to read roads, and their surface conditions because your safety relies on it.

Many Texas riders head north for the doggiest days of summer, but we have options. Fort Davis, in Far West Texas at a mile high, has moderate daytime temperatures and pleasantly cool nights throughout the summer,

We’re back with another super road that’s close enough to the DFW MetroPlex for a day trip. FM 4, between Granbury and Jacksboro, is a beautiful twisty road that zig-zags along among gently rolling hills and wooded stream crossings.

TxDOT recently launched Drive Texas™ , a new online map application that provides travelers with real-time traffic conditions, traffic and weather feeds about the 80,000 miles of road maintained by the state…