USA Motorcycle Tour: Highway 1 & California

The start of your USA motorcycle tour begins with a scheduled flight to Los Angeles. After landing, a shuttle takes you to your hotel near the airport, and the rest of the day is free for you to explore. Overnight in Los Angeles.

In the morning you can optionally join a city tour to Venice Beach, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and Hollywood. In the afternoon comes the tour briefing and vehicle handover – the starting signal for your California motorcycle tour. Overnight in Los Angeles.

You leave Los Angeles and follow Highway 1 as well as the winding Ortega Highway to the well-known biker hangout Hells Kitchen. In the afternoon you cross the Palomar Mountains and the Anza-Borrego plateau – the start of your West Coast motorcycle tour through the desert. Overnight in the Palm Springs area, approx. 310 km.

Via Box Canyon and the Mojave Desert you reach Yarnell, a center of horse breeding in Arizona. This stage of your Harley Davidson tour USA offers winding roads that could easily belong in the Alps, before you reach the western town of Prescott with its famous Whiskey Row, approx. 450 km.

Via Highway 89 you reach the old mining town of Jerome and continue to the ancient cliff dwellings at Montezuma Castle National Monument. As a guided USA motorcycle tour, the route takes you through the New Age town of Sedona to Flagstaff, where you meet Route 66 for the first time. Overnight in Williams, approx. 240 km.

From Williams you reach one of the Seven Wonders of the World: the Grand Canyon. An optional helicopter flight awaits before you follow the scenic road along the South Rim, passing Duck Rock, Grandview and Desert View. As an on-road USA motorcycle tour, this stage requires no off-road riding skills, approx. 360 km.

You follow Route 66 through Seligman, where Angel Delgadillo is regarded as the father of the Mother Road, with stops at the General Store in Hackberry and the museum in Kingman. This Route 66 motorcycle tour ends in the afternoon at the Hoover Dam, before you roll into Las Vegas, approx. 400 km.

The day is free for you to enjoy in Las Vegas. Your guide will be happy to help with show tickets, helicopter flights or a shopping trip to one of the outlet malls. This Las Vegas motorcycle stop is the perfect moment to catch your breath before continuing on to Death Valley.

Sand, heat and extreme temperatures: this Death Valley motorcycle tour takes you through the Valley of Death, which is already back in California. Depending on pass conditions in the Sierra Nevada, you'll reach Mammoth Lake or Ridgecrest in the evening, approx. 480–540 km.

In the morning you visit Mono Lake with its tufa towers, before Tioga Pass, at 3,031 m elevation, brings you into Yosemite National Park. This Yosemite motorcycle tour passes waterfalls and offers an optional hike to the giant sequoias in Mariposa Grove, approx. 310 km.

Via the historic Highway 49 from the Gold Rush era and past endless almond and pistachio orchards, you reach the Stanislaus River. This San Francisco motorcycle stage ends in the afternoon in the Bay Area metropolis, approx. 340 km.

The whole day is free for you to enjoy in San Francisco – whether on foot, by cable car or on an optional boat tour past Alcatraz and under the Golden Gate Bridge. This California motorcycle road trip pause lets you soak up the city by the Pacific to the fullest.

With one last look at the Golden Gate Bridge, you set out on the true Highway 1, passing Monterey, Carmel, the Bixby Bridge and Big Sur. This on-road USA motorcycle tour takes you to the elephant seal colony near Hearst Castle, overnight in the San Simeon area, approx. 365 km.

The day begins at the surfer beach of Pismo Beach and continues through California farmland to the Scandinavian-style town of Solvang. In the afternoon you return your rental motorcycle to the partner in Los Angeles, passing Santa Barbara and Malibu, approx. 400 km.

The hotel shuttle takes you to Los Angeles Airport, from where your flight home with a renowned airline departs back to your starting point in Europe. This USA motorcycle tour ends here with many memories of 15 days of freedom on two wheels.

In the morning you arrive back at your departure point in Europe – your Highway 1 motorcycle tour through the American West has now come to an end. An adventure full of deserts, coastlines, national parks and long winding roads now lies behind you.