I live near Niagara Falls so within 150 miles, I can ride along Lake Ontario or Lake Erie. Ride to the hills in the Southern Tier of New York, Rochester or the Finger Lakes Region. Pretty good rides all-in-all, not the Rockies or the Smokie Mountains but still good ridin.
-Bill-

 

Let's see....from my house it's only 17 miles to the Idaho panhandle, 80 miles to Montana, 90 up to the Canadian border, 90 or so south to the Snake River, and it's just over 150 to the Cascades. Grand Coulee Dam is only 103 miles away. Golly, I kinda feel like singing along with Tom Bodett and Johnny Cash, "I've been everywhere man, I been everywhere..."

 

+1 Spokomo - hard to find a better place than right here. I'm lucky to have one of the most motorcycle traveled roads right at the end of my driveway.

 

There are a butt load of rides around the 150-200 mile mark here in Colorado. Well, at least when it is warm. Many of my riding buddies and I have rode these routes many of times and have not gotten tired of them.

 

Sheeeeet.... I'm near Chicago. No truly "nice rides" anywhere around here. Several decent destinations - Lake Geneva WI (nothing but heavy traffic all the way and then it gets worse - But it's pretty), Galena IL (same thing - don't even bother in the fall on a weekend - Stop and go traffic for a dozen miles or more on either side), Starved Rock State Park (more or less semi-urban, poorly maintained roads all the way there).

Heck, I have to ride 50 miles just to get to some decent corn fields.

I'm sure I'm being overly critical - I just like to get away from all this before I consider it a "nice ride." And until you're past Rockford, you're still "right near Chicago."

 

150 miles here in West Texas El Paso doesn't get you very far. There is desert all around, we have the ride through the mountains in Ruidoso NM and the flat land of White Sands and a few ghost towns here and there..We also the Big Bend National Park to the south, but again it's desert!!

 

Beaches, mountains , deserts, and back. Surfing, Snowboarding, dune bugging. all within 150., and in one day! Oh'yea, insane taxes, gas prices, home prices, and smog laws!

 

The Outer Banks of North Carolina.....120 miles from Cape Hatteras National Seashore! It's a great ride right along the beach.
150 miles from Myrtle Beach.

 

Well i can hit HWY. 25 so.Within 3 miles i'm out of town.Lot of hills and mtns with Oak,Pine and Juniper.Theres a couple of good straight-aways for speed checks,otherwise nice country 2 lane roads.Oh,watch for the rice rockets!

 

I'm in South Texas by Mexican border so w/in 150 miles I can be in mountains in Mexico or on South Padre Island...and not too far from Texas hill country.