One of my favorite short rides is an afternoon ride to North Bend via Fall City and Snoqualmie Falls on Highway 202. There’s a few nice twisties once past the fish hatchery up to the falls overlook and parking lots. From there, there are more nice curves around the “mill pond”. Take the Tokul Road exit (second exit) from the traffic circle and follow along the pond and take a left at the stop sign. If you go right, you’ll be in North Bend. This mill pond road will circle back to the traffic circle that can take you either to the town of Snoqualmie or back the Falls and Fall City. Hard to beat on a nice day! BTW, this picture of the falls was recently taken (mid-September) so there’s not a lot of water coming down.
Here’s a picture of the falls after a LOT of rain one year. There’s SO much water coming over the falls that it creates a LOT of spray, and you WILL get wet standing at the overlook!
I think my most favorite ride routes are from Cougar Rock campground to Paradise at Mount Rainier, about a 20-minute ride, and the ride from the campground to the Stevens Canyon entrance is awesome! That ride is pretty much all day to get to the east entrance and back to the campground for dinner, with stopping at the Ohanapecosh river so to dip my feet in the cold glacial water! However, the ride to get to Cougar Rock from home in Redmond, Washington is ANOTHER matter. I usually I-405 to SR167 and then head for South Hill in Puyallup and get grub at Tacoma Boys store. Traffic, though is a hassle until you get past the town of Graham. Here are a couple of pics of my ’99 Kawasaki Nomad at my campsite (but not THIS year). Sadly, Mount Rainier has become SO popular that the NPS (National Park Service) has started what the call “timed entry” – you have to have picked a time to enter the park beforehand during peak season. Typically, here in the Northwest it can be pretty wet before “peak season” and after Labor Day. Then because of wildfires, the NPS can OK you can set up camp but NO CAMPFIRES. And that’s 2024 in a nutshell: too wet before peak season and too dry after, so no campfires. 🙁
Long before I got into motorcycling, a high school bud and I drove to Mount Rainier and camped out at Ohanapecosh campground the summer after we graduated. We hiked (basically a long walk) up to the then Paradise ice caves. Unfortunately, they are now long gone because of the receding Nisqually glacier 
(could it be… global climate change??) but this picture on the lower right is pretty much what the ice cave looked like back ’68 or so when my friend and I were camping at Ohanapecosh campground. We entered the cave and the watch I was wearing IMMEDIATELY developed condensation inside the watchface that I was never able to get clear again. Here’s an interesting page about the Paradise ice caves.