Okaloosa County Canopy Roads

Everyone has heard of the canopy roads around Tallahassee. The Sandies have ridden them for years. Well you might be surprised to find our county has quite a few miles of canopy roads. They are nice shaded tunnels of tree's. This last Sunday the Sandies ate a good breakfast and rode some pretty miles of Shady tree lined country roads.

Today was get up early and beat the heat  Ride, Breakfast Ride. Had 10 Sandies did 125 miles, never left Okaloosa County. Mark and Lorna S  met us at Diner 85 ,north of Crestview. Tommy was in his truck, sent the seat from his S2S off for work. Now the non-rides are taken care of on to the Rides. Tim W stopped in from his adventures to ride and eat with us. JoeJoe received his HOG Club 40 year patch I bet there is not a lot of those around. WE took the Sandie Route to Breakfast.

Then after pretty good food it was off to see Okaloosa’s Canopy roads.  It would surprise you how many roads we have in the north county with tunnels of tree’s. The reason we have so many still standing is that when the county paved these old clay roads, they just paved. The state relaxed the need stats for building a road. The state wanted to get clay roads paved over to keep clay out of the watershed. No shoulders, narrow and bumpy at times. 

Then it was dark skies all around that got our attention. We turned south hoping to slip in between the cells. Sam, Tim and I did pretty good staying dry. I understand Bobby B and Sandy met the preverbal open faucet. JoeJoe also got soaked before reaching home. Yes it was a bit damp but we got to ride and ride with good friends.

Sunday is our world famous Pot O Luck Ride 9 am GTD.