Vermont?s unmaintained Class IV roads offer access to truly off-the-beaten-path scenery and long-forgotten historic sites as well as enchanting along this Vermont motorcycle ride. Photos by Susan Dragoo.

It?s all scenic. It?s all charming. And it?s all green … except when it?s not, and then it?s even better.

A few days into a trip to the lush forests of northeastern Vermont, we were reminded of Sedona, Arizona. The connection between these two dramatically different climes may at first seem nebulous, but Vermont?s consistent beauty called to mind the time we visited an outdoors outfitter in Sedona and asked, ?Which are the most scenic trails"? The jaded clerk responded with a sigh, ?All of them. They?re all scenic.? His tone let us know there was nothing to be gained by pressing him for further details. We would have to make our own choices from the seemingly infinite good ones available.
Burke Mountain?s ski lift sits idle in the summer, when the resort is popular with mountain bikers riding the nearby Kingdom Trails Network.

Likewise, trying to narrow down the best scenery in Vermont is a fool?s errand. It would be difficult to make a bad choice. Our adventure riding journey to the state?s Northeast Kingdom took us into what may be some of Vermont?s most remote territory, lending itself beautifully to the pursuit of riding motorcycles down dark, green, tree?­canopied lanes and over roads the likes of which Paul Revere might have traveled in colonia...