r/seattlebike • u/wafflesperkilo • 1d ago

Road Biking to Rainier & Olympic

Hello! Would love some suggestions on planning a route from Seattle to Rainier and back and Seattle to Olympic and back. Have found some routes online, but unclear how safe they are for bikes around cars, and suggestions for places to stay along the way etc.

If you have done this before, and have thoughts on scenic and safe-ish from cars routes, would love your input!

(I am used to riding hills and would consider myself an amateur intermediate cyclist, not very fast but by can climb hills and do long distances.)

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u/backlikeclap 1d ago

Seattle - Orting - Eatonville - Elbe - Ashford - NF-52 - Packwood worked for me for Rainier.

For the Olympics I would just take a ferry To Port Townsend or Port Angeles.

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u/wafflesperkilo 41m ago

Thank you! Do you by any chance know if a car with bikes mounted on top of a car are okay to get on the ferry? I see there are buses etc going on it, so I am presuming a 9-10 ft height is not a problem, but wanted to check