| Route | Contributor | Last Updated | Where | Distance | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taneum canyon | secondlaw | Jul 20th | United States > Washington > Ellensburg | 53.1km | Low traffic, Rural, Scenic |
| A quick tour to the entrance to Tanuem canyon with some ideas for other, longer routes. | |||||
| Naneum Canyon | secondlaw | Jul 20th | United States > Washington > Ellensburg | 38.5km | Low traffic, Rural, Scenic |
| These are some of my more freqeuently used default rides in the Kittitas Valley. The roads are good, traffic is low, and the routes tend to give a reasonably good mix of headwinds, tailwinds and crosswinds in the typically NW Kittitas Valley winds. There are cutoffs for a 10 and 15 mile loop and a number of other options as well. Some of the words from my cycling log on these routes are beautiful, gorgeous, relaxing, wonderful, calm, nice, easy, fast, great. From Ellensburg to mouth of Naneum Canyon is a gradual climb of about 1000 ft - not a huge amount of terrain, but you can turn it into a workout. | |||||
| Top o' the hill | secondlaw | Jul 13th | United States > Washington > Ellensburg | 63.5km | Low traffic, Rural, Scenic |
| Climb to a divide between the Cascade shrub-steppe and evergreen forest habitats. | |||||
| Whiskey Dick | secondlaw | Jul 13th | United States > Washington > Ellensburg | 71.1km | Low traffic, Rural, Scenic |
| The Whisky Dick Triathalon, held every July, starts with a swim in the Columbia river at Vantage, followed by the bike leg over Whiskey Dick crest into Kittitas, and a running leg into Ellensburg. This ride takes you to the Whiskey Dick crest from the Ellensburg side. If you have enough oomph left you can continue on to Vantage and your return ride will give you the full Whisky Dick bike leg experience and then some! | |||||
| Manastash Canyon | secondlaw | Jul 10th | United States > Washington > Ellensburg | 55.2km | Low traffic, Rural, Scenic |
| A ride up a very pretty little tributary canyon of the Yakima river! | |||||
| Ellensburg-Yakima River Loop | BJL | Jun 14th | United States > Washington > Ellensburg | 44.4km | Recreational, Basic, Rural |
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| KOA-Ellensburg-KOA Loop | BJL | Jun 14th | United States > Washington > Ellensburg | 45.1km | Recreational, Onroad, Low traffic, Scenic |
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| Badger Pocket | secondlaw | May 20th | United States > Washington > Ellensburg | 69.6km | Low traffic, Rural, Scenic |
| The road to nowhere. A lot of cyclists in the Kittitas Valley love a ride into Badger Pocket. I've done it a number of times, but it's not really one of my favorites. The ride ends at the boundary of the Yakima Firing Range military reservation, but the ride is through a mostly bucolic landscape of farms and ranches. | |||||
| Ringer Road | secondlaw | May 2nd | United States > Washington > Ellensburg | 30.9km | Low traffic, Rural, Scenic |
| A jaunt to the entrance to the Yakima River Canyon. | |||||
| Labor Day Loop | secondlaw | May 1st | United States > Washington > Ellensburg | 47.7km | Low traffic, Rural, Scenic |
| Tour along portion of Yakima river into Thorp and back into Ellensburg. | |||||
| Reeser Creek Road climb | trevorh | Jan 17th | United States > Washington > Ellensburg | 30.3km | Training, Steep, Difficult, Low traffic |
| Passing through: Start | |||||
| 04 Yakima to OR | josiah | Oct 18th | United States > Washington > Ellensburg | 143.8km | |
| Passing through: Yakima, Lateral Rd, Toppenish, Brooks Memorial SP, Goldendale, Biggs, OR | |||||
| 03 Down the Yak | josiah | Oct 18th | United States > Washington > Ellensburg | 53.1km | |
| Passing through: Ellensburg, Selah | |||||