Best ADV Roads Outside Phoenix

[@justincoleman2740]

Thanks again for helping me through the winter Sterling. :)

[@SterlingNoren]

You’re welcome!

[@sparrowwheels]

The only KZbin channel that we with anticipation are waiting for new episodes for. A great travel equipment (camper - bike). Thank you for the another episode🥳

[@SterlingNoren]

Thanks for that!

[@RobRoPhenia]

Ive watched EVERY video on your channel, its great, cant wait for the next big ride, love watching the camping, cooking, the knowledge you have, makes me wish i had the time and money to get out and do it myself! keep up the videos, they're great!

[@SterlingNoren]

Thanks 👍

[@triumphtraveller9036]

We are all booked for your adventure rally in Bisbee in April. Driving 4000 kms from Northern B.C. Can’t wait to ride Arizona.

[@williammacpherson4004]

Coming in from Nova Scotia - see you guys there !

[@Gordie1450]

Road it December and was impressed

[@SterlingNoren]

That's awesome! You're in for a treat.

[@GEDDY37]

More details pls?

[@tomtom9639]

Great to know about these easy access places to travel too, camp and to ride!

[@brucegerken1063]

Great video. Thank you.

[@dankorolyk5917]

As usual,stunning countryside.

[@paulocarreiro5855]

Man, that desert is beautiful!

[@davidandreasen9010]

🎉🎉🎉 Thanks and keep up the good work🎉🎉🎉

[@waterdude21236]

Best 125 vid yet, awesome

[@wanderlpnw]

A core memory is driving my Volvo out into those roads a quarter century ago and laying in a sleeping bag watching a meteor shower. I wish I had found motorcycles back then, but I found minimalist camping at least.

[@SterlingNoren]

Sounds like a great memory, the desert can be magical.

[@JacobAnawalt]

Nice! Added to my ride bucket list!

[@Forest_Rebel]

Great video. I've ridden the "green lanes" in the UK with an 80+ yr old guy who has the 125 and he takes that thing absolutely everywhere. He gets up stuff (slowly) like a mountain goat, while some of us less experienced folks on Enduros and ADVs might get stuck. Experience trumps equipment :D

[@flyovercounty1427]

Thank you

[@mlgomez9644]

Another GREAT adventure. Thx

[@adv2go]

Awesome! just did Apache Trail couple weeks ago!

[@markordway9577]

Propane Campfire inside the van? Love it!! :-).

[@ppfeifer3]

Very enjoyable video, I love that road! While establishing one of the first transcontinental records on motorcycle in 1914 Erwin Baker wrote about riding through the area. "I started over the famous Roosevelt Route. This route is similar to the picturesque Grand Canyon of Arizona. The ride of this day was a continuous one over narrow, dangerous cliff roads and the change in climate from hot desert sands to the snow-peaked mountains". Your little Honda has a wee bit more power and suspension than his did but the fun factor is still the same :)

[@SterlingNoren]

I love that!

[@glennsmith1040]

Thanks for sharing Sterling. Great ride. The 125 is definitely holding it's own. Sadly, we've just canceled our long planned 2025, 30 day motorcycle ride throughout the USA. We'll just stay within Canada for now. Look forward to your next post.

[@1PHXTHUG]

I was the one on the green KLR 650 - it was so NICE TO MEET YOU. Great video, as always!

[@leeinwis]

I'm thinkin about getting a Versys 650 , got a crf rally now.

[@SterlingNoren]

It was great meeting you too!

[@4940markhutchins]

In the1960s, my dad and grandpa used to ride over from So Cal on their BMWs (R50 and R27) and look for gold around Tortilla Flats and the Superstitions.

[@StasWright]

Great series! Tortilla Flats makes me want some lunch.

[@chuckbayman]

Great video

[@The_Tactical_Sombrero]

Great video as always. Huge props for riding back on the -17!

[@trey8367]

😂

[@LifeWithKernelLee]

Very nice👍🏻

[@Liberty4Ever]

Thanks to these videos, my Southwest Places To See moto camping planning file is 80% Arizona. I think of all of the round the world adventure travelers and that's great, but there is way more adventure in the US than I'll ever see... but I'm going to give it my best shot.

[@chrislatorre3875]

Drove past your hotel yesterday in our cab over camper. Really wanted to stop and day hi but felt weird about it. Have watched all of your videos, so I feel like I know you but really don't. I enjoy them all. Keep up the great work. Thanks

[@SterlingNoren]

Maybe next time! Lots of folks stop by, I don't mind.

[@rayfriend7450]

Ok you convinced me to get the map. I'm here in AZ and have explored many of the roads, but I was stopped at the dam end of the Apache Trail the day the fires started and closed it. I will have to get out of Northern AZ this winter and knock that one off of the list. The dirt road around the east side of Roosevelt Lake is also a great ride Keep the videos coming, waiting patiently for the MT BDR but I'm not getting any younger, so get to work on it. Thanks for another great adventure.

[@LuckyTown77]

Currently three stranded vehicles on Bloody Basin Road.

[@samhill3496]

Some of the most beautiful colored granite processed in AZ there. I worked that area a few years. Kaintuck the Desert Dog Wonderful area. Through the week. AZ Desert Dog did a vid recently. Glad the road is open. I used to ride it on my BMW R1100RS. All I had.

[@gzahnd]

Ketchup on that sandwich broke me. 😂

[@chad2886]

Is there anywhere local around the Phoenix area to pickup butler maps? This video is perfectly timed as I had enough of the Adirondack winter and loaded the klr on the back of the camper in search of sunshine, dispersed camping and riding. Currently in Oklahoma making my way west. Your videos along with others inspired me to see the country sooner rather than later, after all there's no guarantees in life.

[@SterlingNoren]

Maybe at one of the motorcycle dealerships?

[@chad2886]

Yeah that's probably a good place to start

[@TerraPruett]

I've been over it several times back in the early 60's and through the 80's. This road was built for the workers who built Roosevelt Dam. Teddy Roosevelt traveled it.

[@SterlingNoren]

It's amazing to think about the history of that road!

[@enduromotorradtouren]

What a scenic trail. Must be a lot of fun. And it's warm, too. Greetings from an unpleasant German winter, Günter/Nürnberg

[@SterlingNoren]

Hang in there, spring is coming!

[@ethan5985]

Fun to see you near Mesa. I've lived here for a few years and apache trail was closed so I've never ridden it.

[@outlaw7x77]

Thanks, we went out to Tortilla Flat a few years ago. We weren't going to take the car to the dam but I will bring my XR650R next time. ❤😊

[@leeinwis]

Si.. tacos

[@gregc6661]

Great video, so glad they eventually opened up the Apache Trail again. Another good ride would be Four Peaks

[@Suebee32]

Love the video! Could you please consider listing the music you use in your videos? You always have the best music. 😊

[@SterlingNoren]

It’s from a company called Epidemic Sound

[@Suebee32]

Thanks! ​@@SterlingNoren

[@MikeNoble]

You do great videos. Wish I could take my 310gs on dirt roads like that. Don’t have anything like that close to Nashville.

[@Hogdriver88]

Now there’s a place I’ve actually been - Tortilla Flat and Apache Trail. But not for riding and camping unfortunately - used to go to Mesa once a year for work. Loved that whole Superstition Mts area. Was that little water crossing near the end of the video the same one that used to always be there just east of ‘town’?

[@SterlingNoren]

The water crossing was just before the campground as I was heading north on/to bloody basin Road

[@fkitbaylife902]

You should of went to sheep’s bridge’s looped back around to horseshoe lake

[@SterlingNoren]

It’s on my list!

[@fkitbaylife902]

@SterlingNoren would be lot easier to cross walkway on the dam on the little bike

[@satzawesome]

Never been to that side of country and seen dessert. I have a conference and have march 1st to do what ever. Thinking of rentjng a bike for a day trip from phoniex. Then this video pops up

[@SterlingNoren]

You've come to the right place for ideas!

[@peterdeb580]

Is that a fire pit inside your camper van? (time stamp around 29 sec)

[@ohwell2790]

Really do not watch these videos to watch people eat but the ridding is good.. Wanted a Honda Trail but none where available so got the Monkey. Out fitting the Monkey for off rode is difficult where the Tral is made for ti . Still want a Trail.

[@williammacpherson4004]

What the what … was that a fire burning away in your front seat????

[@mikemercurio3668]

Saw that as well and was waiting for the explanation??

[@gregc6661]

Yes I’d like to know too! Interesting

[@leeinwis]

Dude keeps more flammable stuff then i've even seen a vanlifer do ..

[@3goldfinger]

You are closing in no your Silverplate❤

[@brentnearhood8874]

I have friends in Rio Verde.

[@stephenscott6570]

What was the second road you were on that took you to the interstate? Was the interstate I-17?

[@SterlingNoren]

It was just to the west of the interstate heading south

[@TimmyCramer]

S. Try the road to fossil creek and Verde Hot springs......kickass!! Timmy C Arizona

[@leeinwis]

I've never owned a non Japanese bike, why would I ? ( 44 yrs of bikes)

[@trey8367]

🥱🤢

[@bigjoe4020]

I noticed that shot of the damn had those annoying power lines right in front of it. The BEST feature of modern high end mobile phones is the MAGIC ERASER or whatever the call it. You can delete those powerlines from your photo as if they had never been there. Not sure if you cam has that feature, if it doesn't you have now a VERY good reason to sell the need for a new camera to the Misses. No need to thank me, your welcome :)

[@SterlingNoren]

Thanks, but I thought that I would include them as part of the landscape. 😁

[@twowheelrodeo]

I just used my trail 90 for changing irrigation lines.🥲