Bluff Street Climb
- long (19.9 km)
- 12 mi
- long (19.9 km)
- of climbing (1,017 m)
- 3,337 ft
- of climbing (1,017 m)
- average grade
- 5.1%
- average grade
- steepest 500 m
- 11.4%
- steepest 500 m
Elevation profile
From 2,208 ft at the bottom to 5,545 ft at the top. Grades are averaged over each half kilometre, from USGS elevation data, so short ramps can be steeper than they show.
Weather at the top of Bluff Street this week
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Is it safe to bike up Bluff Street?
We don't rate roads as safe or unsafe: crash counts can't say how risky a ride is, and roads people like to ride draw more riders, so they see more crashes. What the records show: no bike crashes were reported along the climb from 2021–2025.
Common questions about Bluff Street
- How long and steep is the Bluff Street climb?
- 12 miles (19.9 km) at 5.1% on average, climbing 3,337 ft (1,017 m) from 2,208 ft to 5,545 ft. The steepest half kilometre averages 11.4%. That makes it a Hors catégorie climb.
- Where does the climb start and finish?
- It starts at 33.9099, -116.87547, where Bluff Street leaves Banning-Idyllwild Panoramic Highway, and tops out on the road at 34.0365, -116.91001.
- Is Bluff Street paved?
- Mostly: OpenStreetMap tags 70% of the climb as paved, and the rest as dirt or gravel.
- How is the category worked out?
- From the climb's shape only: length in metres × average grade (%) of 16,000 or more for Cat 3, 32,000 for Cat 2, 64,000 for Cat 1 and 80,000 for HC. It describes how hard the climb is, not traffic or crashes.
- Where does this data come from?
- The climb is found from OpenStreetMap roads and USGS 3DEP elevation (every climb, not a list of famous ones). Access is from OpenStreetMap tags; gates and closures change, so obey posted signs. Crash counts are police reports in the California Crash Reporting System (CCRS) on data.ca.gov, counted where their map location is within 100 ft of the climb. The forecast is from the National Weather Service.
Other climbs nearby
- Banning-Idyllwild Panoramic Highway near BanningHC · 14 mi at 4.3% · 3,301 ft · starts 0.0 mi away
- Sunset AvenueCat 3 · 4.1 mi at 4.1% · 889 ft · starts 2.1 mi away
- Mias Canyon RoadCat 3 · 3.7 mi at 4.6% · 906 ft · starts 2.9 mi away
- Potrero Road from Morongo RoadCat 2 · 3.7 mi at 6.9% · 1,345 ft · starts 3.6 mi away
- Banning Canyon RoadCat 1 · 7.0 mi at 5.8% · 2,162 ft · starts 4.0 mi away
- Malki RoadCat 3 · 3.0 mi at 3.4% · 541 ft · starts 4.2 mi away
- East Fork Mias-CanyonCat 3 · 1.7 mi at 8.1% · 719 ft · starts 4.2 mi away
- Poppet Flats RoadCat 3 · 1.6 mi at 8.2% · 715 ft · starts 4.4 mi away
Bike crash hotspots nearby
Found from OpenStreetMap roads and USGS 3DEP elevation; ranked on shape only. Hors catégorie: length in metres × average grade (%) of 16,000 or more for Cat 3, 32,000 for Cat 2, 64,000 for Cat 1 and 80,000 for HC. It describes how hard the climb is, not traffic or crashes. Crashes: bike crashes reported within 100 ft of the climb, 2021–2025, from the California Crash Reporting System (CCRS), counted only where the report has map coordinates. Weather: National Weather Service. Access from OpenStreetMap tags; obey posted signs. How the data works.