ASK SOUTHERN MOTORCYCLISTS ABOUT THEIR favorite rides, and a few storied names are sure to cross their lips: the Natchez Trace Parkway, the Cherohala Skyway, the Tail of the Dragon, and the Blue Ridge Parkway, among others. Today, however, I’d like to take you on one of my personal favorites—a lesser-known route that’s worthy of more attention, perhaps even a place in the canon of epic Southern rides: the Coastal Highway, US 17, as it follows the Atlantic Seaboard.
It’s a route my late father handed down to me based on his extensive two-wheeled travels, back when I’d ride my ’89 Harley-Davidson from North Carolina down to the Georgia coast to visit my parents. It’s the route I still enjoy whenever possible, as it offers so much more splendor, history, and character
