Covered Bridge Ride

21/40/79/90 miles "difficult"

Covered Bridges Ride, Start at Chapin Park on 1st and Ash in Scio Oregon
From I-5 take exit 242 or 244. Go 8 miles East on Jefferson Scio Road. CAUTION, portions of this route have little or no shoulder, traffic is generally light.

0.0 Out of park
0.1 LEFT on Main
0.9 LEFT on Highway 226
2.4 LEFT (North) on Richardson’s Gap Road
3.2 Shimanek Bridge 1891
3.4 Continue straight
4.4 at top of hill go RIGHT (East) on Ridge Drive (county rd 609)
4.5 Veer East on Ridge Drive at intersection with Cole School Road
8.3 RIGHT on SpringValley Drive
8.8 RIGHT at T with Valley View Drive. At 9.1 road curves left and goes down
10.6 RIGHT at T Kingston-Jordan Drive
11.2 Bear RIGHT on Hwy 226
11.8 LEFT (South) on Jordan Road and go up steep hill. (Jordan Bridge in Pioneer Park)
12.4 town of Jordan
Turn RIGHT at T-intersection with Camp Morrison Drive
13.9 Hannah Bridge
14.0 LEFT (West) at T with Hwy 226
16.3 RIGHT onto Shimanek Drive (County Rd 639)
18.5 LEFT at the T with Richardson Gap road and again cross the Shimanek Bridge
19.2 CROSS Hwy 226 continue straight ahead on Richardsons Gap Road
FOR 21 MILE OPTION GO RIGHT AND CONTINUE BACK TO SCIO
22.1 LEFT on Oupor Drive (country Road 644) and follow East and South through several 90 degree turns (then go straight to become Merritt rd)
26.5 LEFT at t-intersection with Fish Hatchery Drive
26.8 LEFT on Larwood Drive (county road 643)
26.9 Larwood Bridge of Ripleys "believe it or not" Larwood county wayside (no water) at junction of Crabtree and Roaring River. Turn around
27 Larwood Bridge again
27.4 STRAIGHT on Fish Hatchery road
27.8 LEFT on Meridian Road
30.2 RIGHT (West) on Baptist Church Road
FOR 46.5 MILE OPTION
.......>33.4 RIGHT ON RICHARDSON GAP ROAD
.......>38.4 LEFT ON 226
.......>40.5 RETURN TO SCIO
34.5 LEFT (South) on Bond Road
36.9 BECOMES (West) on Mt hope Road
38.0 LEFT (South) on Brewster Road
40 CROSS river BECOMES Grant
40.1 RIGHT on Williams
40.2 RIGHT on Wheeler St
40.3 BECOMES Tennessee Road
42.1 RIGHT on Gore/Tenneesee Road
42.2 BECOMES Tennessee Road
43.1 RIGHT on Kagal Drive/Tenneessee Road
43.2 BECOMES Tennessee
44 .1 BECOMES Tennesee School Drive
50.6 BECOMES Spicer Drive
FIND THE FREE BIKE DUMP ON SPICER DRIVE
Stay on Spicer. Do not go on Grand Prairie Road or Eicher Road
61.3 RIGHT Kennel Road
62.4 RIGHT on Hwy 20 then immediate LEFT on Scravel Road
63.5 RIGHT on Knox Butte Road
67.7 LEFT on Hwy 20
67.8 LEFT on Hwy 226
72.8 STAY on 226 at Fish Hatchery Road
76.8 LEFT on Hungary Hill Road OR STAY ON HWY 226 TO RETURN TO SCIO IN 3 MILES
79.1 Hoffman Bridge
80.6 RIGHT at Crabtree Drive or Rd 7A
81.5 RIGHT on Gilkey Road (county rd 7a)
84.3 At T turn RIGHT to continue on Gilkey Road (do not go on Kelly)
84.4 Bear LEFT continuing on Gilkey do not go on Hungary Hill Road
85.2 Continue Straight on Goar Road
85.5 Gilkey Bridge
86.6 RIGHT on Robinson Drive at T CROSS RR tracks
89.2 Becomes 1st Ave in Scio
89.3 CROSS Main into park
89.5 Chapin Park - Wecome back!
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