OHIO HOMECOMING LOOP

Main: The curves in the Hocking Hills State Forest attract street riders from all over the state, and dual-sport riders come for the dirt roads and trails. Inset: The Rocky Boot Outlet is The Big Deal in Nelsonville.

County Road 33A and nobody uses it except the locals. Always a good motorcycling road, now it’ s a good and empty motorcycling road. About all that’ s left is to cross the bridge connecting Pomeroy, Ohio, with my hometown of Mason, West Virginia, and I’ m home again.

For the return trip, I again take advantage of 33A to get to Athens, then pick up Ohio Route 56, which entertains with dozens of sweeping curves as it carries me west into the Hocking Hills