Port Ludlow Loops

This year obviously has been very strange year for bicycle adventures.  We have had to keep our trips to local rides most of the time.  Our favorite every day rides include:

a.       Paradise Loop:

It starts at our house, then to the end of the Paradise hamlet, back to highway, up on By Water Way, to the top of Olympic Ridge Drive, and then back home.  This is a 9.5-mile ride with an elevation gain of 800 ft. 

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/5385+Paradise+Bay+Road,+Port+Ludlow,+WA/47.9192274,-122.6544576/47.8986085,-122.6485178/47.8971698,-122.6516936/47.8901775,-122.6454708/47.8750098,-122.6470372/5385+Paradise+Bay+Road,+Port+Ludlow,+WA/@47.8956571,-122.6811407,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m24!4m23!1m5!1m1!1s0x548fe02c770ca7cf:0x69baff8ada8723b8!2m2!1d-122.634436!2d47.875864!1m5!3m4!1m2!1d-122.6511909!2d47.9007394!3s0x548fe1ac2ceb0121:0x92d5a4f5547e2c26!1m0!1m0!1m0!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x548fe02c770ca7cf:0x69baff8ada8723b8!2m2!1d-122.634436!2d47.875864!3e1

 

b.      Teal Lake Loop:

It start at our house following the Paradise Bay road through Paradise to Port Ludlow, then up Teal Lake Road to the very top and the back down through Andy Cooper Road back to the house.  This is also a 9.5-mile ride with an elevation gain of 1,200 ft. 

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/5385+Paradise+Bay+Road,+Port+Ludlow,+WA/47.911034,-122.684059/47.878893,-122.6793383/47.8937431,-122.6707981/5385+Paradise+Bay+Road,+Port+Ludlow,+WA/@47.8823352,-122.6759479,14z/data=!4m17!4m16!1m5!1m1!1s0x548fe02c770ca7cf:0x69baff8ada8723b8!2m2!1d-122.634436!2d47.875864!1m0!1m0!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x548fe02c770ca7cf:0x69baff8ada8723b8!2m2!1d-122.634436!2d47.875864!3e1

 

c.       Highway Loop:

Leave our house and take Paradise Bay Road all the way to Port Ludlow, then turn left on Oak Bay Road to Highway 19, turn left and ride to Highway 104, turn left and follow highway to just before the Hood Canal Bridge and turn left on Paradise by road and back to the house.  This is a 14-mile ride, with an elevation gain of 1,200 ft.   

a.       https://www.google.com/maps/dir/5385+Paradise+Bay+Road,+Port+Ludlow,+WA/47.9215874,-122.6998966/47.9127863,-122.7239292/47.8898271,-122.7322548/47.8756668,-122.6317471/@47.8784301,-122.687537,14z/data=!4m17!4m16!1m10!1m1!1s0x548fe02c770ca7cf:0x69baff8ada8723b8!2m2!1d-122.634436!2d47.875864!3m4!1m2!1d-122.6584564!2d47.9078854!3s0x548fe10729127325:0x751d4cf029040286!1m0!1m0!1m0!1m0!3e1

 

d.      Fort Flagler Ride: 

Start at LB Good Memorial State Park on Indian Island, follow the highway all the way to Fort Flagler on Marrowstone Island.  Then return the starting point.  This is a 16-mile ride with about 550 ft of elevation gain. 

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/L.+B.+Good+Memorial+County+Park/48.0974754,-122.6941802/48.0323855,-122.7290382/@48.0398715,-122.7340164,14z/data=!4m10!4m9!1m5!1m1!1s0x548fef4657d446bb:0x65a8a8afc959a293!2m2!1d-122.7291832!2d48.0323569!1m0!1m0!3e1