"Pick Your Kansas" on Hwy K4

82 McR Points

Motorcycle Type : Cruiser

This is the best ride in Kansas hands down. Great curves and rolling hills keep your attention and make it a great ride. There is usually not a lot of traffic other than bikes! I ride this route every year out to the Thunder on the Smokey rally a fund raiser for the Kansas Motorcycle Museum in Marquette KS. Gas and snacks are available in several of the small towns along the route but they do close early as most small town stores do.

0 McR Points

Motorcycle Type : Cruiser

This route is beautiful. Two highlights to see are the Maquette Motorcycle Museum in Marquette just west of Lindsborg, and then Coronado Heights just northeast of Lindsborg. Marquette Motorcycle Museum is totally fabulous with vintage bikes in pristine condition, and Coronado Heights shows off a view for miles and miles. There is plenty to do on this trip!

0 McR Points

Motorcycle Type : Touring

The total ride from LaCrosse to Topeka can take up to 5 hours. Remarkable changes in landscape. The road from LaCrosse to Lindsborg is flat and straight, plenty of farmground, pasture and few trees allow you to see 15 to 20 miles in all directions. Services (food & fuel) are sometimes 30 miles apart. East of Lindsborg, you will encounter more small communities but services remain limited, especially after dark. Keep your tank "topped off" because the ride is worth every mile. The Flint Hills offer fantastic views. Between Highways 177 and 99 and again in Shawnee county, Highway 4 changes into mostly long, gradual curves on the narrow, two-lane road; portions are tree-lined as you approach Topeka. Lake Wabaunsee, located just west of Eskridge, is a great area to take a break with its shaded campgrounds and two restaurants.

2630 McR Points

Motorcycle Type : Cruiser

I chose this route because I was visiting the wonderful barbed wire museum in La Cross and was going to K.C next. There are also exhibits on the unique sandstone fenceposts from that part of the plains.

The route itself is unremarkable unless you can enjoy watching the waving of grain fields, the silhouettes of old farm buildings and windmills and wonder of the families that first put so much of their lives into taming the ground and making a life. It is a peaceful ride.