Big Bend Fall 2026 Nov1-Nov 6th

After you read & decided to sign up for the Ride, please join the WhatsApp group to get up to information. https://chat.whatsapp.com/HbmE6rQxqm149BghrQox5B?mode=gi_t I wanted to share the details for our upcoming Big Bend trip for Fall 2026. Before you dive into the itinerary, I want to emphasize that staying at the specific hotels I mention is completely optional. I just found these spots online along our path, so if you find a different place that fits your budget better, please feel free to book there instead. Because of this, I have made sure that our meeting point every single morning will be a local gas station, and we will plan on a Kick Stands Up time of exactly 9:00 AM each day. To give us some flexibility, I have put together two separate route options for Day 1, three different options for Day 5, and one set route for Day 6. Here is how the plan looks so far: Day 1: Sunday Since several of us will already be in the area for the BMW rally, we will all meet up at the Shell gas station located at 709 N La Grange St** *Flatonia, TX 78941 Once we are all gathered, we can check the weather conditions and decide together which of the two routes makes the most sense to take. We will be riding through some incredibly scenic roads, including the famous Twisted Sister Route 337. For lunch, we will stop at the Frio Canyon Motorcycle Resort in Leakey. Our stop for the first night will be in Del Rio, and I am personally planning to stay at the Quality Inn Del Rio. Day 2: Monday *We will head out along historic U.S. Route 90. Our first stop will be the scenic overlook at the Rio Grande, followed by a second stop at the Judge Roy Bean Museum. A quick heads up for this leg of the trip: there are no gas stations available between Del Rio and Sanderson, so we will need to fuel up at every single station we come across just to be safe. Later in the day, we will visit the McDonald Observatory before wrapping up the evening in…