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Having motorcycle toured through forty-eight states and seven provinces of Canada over the last forty years, not surprisingly I have a few favorite roads. My absolute favorite, balancing traffic density, police presence and intersecting driveways/roads is Arkansas Highway 341, otherwise known as “Push Mountain Road”. To access it from Mountain Home, take Arkansas 201 towards Norfolk and turn right onto 341. It’s twenty-four miles long with over a hundred and thirty five turns and feels distinctly like two different roads.

It starts out with less than perfect pavement, narrow shoulders and residential driveways. About eight miles later, it enters the Ozark National Forest where the surface becomes stellar. There aren’t any driveways or intersecting roads and the shoulder is five feet wide. From here, it climbs Push Mountain which includes some lower speed switchbacks before continuing onto a series of varying speed corners and short straights.

This is one of the few roads I still ride fast enough to wear the edges of the tires. Visibility is wide open in the corners and there’s a complete lack of gravel on the roadway. I usually run the road back and forth several times and there’s even a micro brewery (Gravity Brewing) located a few miles West on Arkansas 14, just outside of Big Flat (open Monday-Thursday from noon until 6pm).