Grew up around the White Rock area (off NW Highway?). You're pretty much in the middle of traffic. You'll have to go a ways to find FM roads.
Broken Bow maybe your closest roads. map out Paris Harley then to Broken Bow OK, Mena, AR

 

Might try this,,
https://www.motorcycleroads.com/moto...rides-in/texas

 

Yeah, not right off NW and Jupiter.

I think that’s one of my major issues with trying to get out. Takes me about an hour just to get out of the city. I’ve heard a lot about Broken Bow, might try to find a route there

 

Not exactly 2-5 hours from Dallas and back but this ride, except for maybe Big Bend, is the best in Texas:

TX-16 from Kerrville to Medina
RR-337 from Medina to Camp Wood
TX-55 from Camp Wood to Barksdale
RR-335 from Barksdale to TX-41
TX-41 from RR-335 to RR-336
RR-336 from TX-41 to Leakey
RR-337 and TX-187 Leakey to Lost Maples State Natural Area
TX-187 and TX-39 to Kerville

https://goo.gl/maps/5yB7GDAKaW3WGUmv6
3 hours, 17 minutes
157 miles

https://goo.gl/maps/knbdw5uBE8zQwjwp7
1 hour 32 minutes
66.6 miles

 

Whisky,

Welcome to the Metro Mess and I live in Mesquite so I generally like to head east to escape the traffic. There are a couple other members on here that I meet up with from time to time and we cruise around East Texas. If you want to send me a PM and exchange contact info we can add your number to the text invite when we plan a ride. We're not a club just guys that like to ride, wives are welcome, all are welcome and we don't care what you ride. We are open to ride ideas if you have something in mind that you may be interested in checking out throw it out there.

Advice for DFW traffic, leave town early when possible and grab breakfast once you are out of Big D and in a small town, then start your ride from there. I've lived here my whole life so the traffic is normal to me, not that I like it. Some people that haven't grown up in it never get used to it but you can't let it stop you just stay alert, assume you are invisible and pick your times when you have the least risk.

 

If you ride NE out of Dallas on SH 78 past Garland, you will have access to a lot of roads once you pass over PGBT.
Past Wylie and Farmersville, you can go NE to Blue Ridge and then go back west towards McKinney. Go south around Lake Lavon and then go back south to SH 78.

 

If you want to come up this way give a shout and I could meet you in Farmersville and show you some roads. Plan on most of a day. Good BBQ in Tioga at Clark's.
https://maps.harley-davidson.com/share/rides/4T0fw5Ntk

For east TX, take US80 east to Wills Point or Mineola then north, south, or east.

The roads aren't marked "FM" on most maps, just the number. On Google Maps the FM roads and county roads are in a rectangle, state roads are circle/oval. In some cases the "FM" roads might be called "ranch road". "FM" stands for farm to market.