Biking Glacier Point Road has always been on GBC’s bucket list status with one caveat. No doubt, this is one of the most scenic roads in California with an enormous payoff at the end with a direct view of Yosemite Valley and Half Dome all up in your face. The problem comes with Yosemite National […]
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If there’s a Mount Rushmore of iconic rides, Mount Tam Gravel would be one place striking a pose. It’s hard to compete not only with the trails and views from the area, but the history as well. You can go back to labeling Mount Tam as the birthplace of mountain biking or even further to
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When is not having a standout a good thing? Having never ridden in Redlands, it was hard to gauge my expectations. I normally first look for big mountains, but the San Bernardinos aren’t part of the neighborhood proper, so it was a mystery to me what the elevation would bring. Michael Heal who helps organize
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San Luis Obispo is one of my favorite towns in all of California and one of the rides on every local’s repertoire is Prefumo Canyon. It’s clearly the ride I’ve done the most on my visits and slots in perfectly no matter how much time I seem to have. Prefumo Canyon sits southeast of town
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As an Angeleno (and more specifically a Gr818er), the initial appeal to gravel was to explore new areas after seemingly ridden all available pavement around me. The San Gabriel Mountains have provided that relief, but after years of dirt, I was starting to feel like I was exhausting all my options. That reasoning was led
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Santa Cruz has always been an area I’ve always wanted to grasp, but have always been outside my comfort zone on visits. I like understanding the order of the place I’m in which is easy to do in smaller towns, but in larger places like Santa Cruz I’d like to have more of a focal
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Figueroa Mountain is another glaring example of taking one of California’s greatest paved climbs and somehow making it better by going off the beaten path. Just like Gibraltar Road, most cyclists think only about the ascent which is fair enough because it’s great on it’s on own so much to warrant one of the best
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Oat Mountain might be the shortest gravel guide I’ll ever add and doesn’t really include dirt, but it’s still worthy inclusion on this list. Part of the reason you think of fat tires when you think of this ride is how some of the worst mixed surface portions of the road are now beautifully paved,
Finding Central Coast gravel is an experience every cyclist should aspire to. San Luis Obispo County sits in the center of it and has a number of options abound with a few different terrains to throw at you. Part of it is a seemingly endless supply of rolling hills carpeted in lush greens in the
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Gravel provides the enjoyment to escape from it all and Mount Lukens is one of the best climbs in Los Angeles that does it close to an urban area while providing a surprising amount of epicness. If you’ve ever ridden up the Angeles Crest Highway, it’s not hard to notice the number of cars parked
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