Canyon Road Climb near Willits
- long (4.9 km)
- 3.1 mi
- long (4.9 km)
- of climbing (187 m)
- 614 ft
- of climbing (187 m)
- average grade
- 3.8%
- average grade
- steepest 500 m
- 9.5%
- steepest 500 m
Elevation profile
From 1,358 ft at the bottom to 1,972 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 Canyon Road this week
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Is it safe to bike up Canyon Road?
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. The records here are also incomplete: most reports along it are filed under Willits, where only 50% of reported bike crashes have a map location, so the numbers here are too low. What the records show: no bike crashes were reported along the climb from 2021–2025.
Common questions about Canyon Road
- How long and steep is the Canyon Road near Willits climb?
- 3.1 miles (4.9 km) at 3.8% on average, climbing 614 ft (187 m) from 1,358 ft to 1,972 ft. The steepest half kilometre averages 9.5%. That makes it a Category 3 climb.
- Where does the climb start and finish?
- It starts at 39.42762, -123.31712, and tops out on the road at 39.43091, -123.26556.
- Is Canyon Road paved?
- Yes, by its OpenStreetMap tags.
- 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
- Hearst Willits RoadCat 3 · 1.6 mi at 7.9% · 666 ft · starts 0.3 mi away
- Ridgewood Road from Eastside RoadCat 2 · 7.1 mi at 3.2% · 1,217 ft · starts 0.8 mi away
- Best Day So FarCat 3 · 2.3 mi at 4.9% · 597 ft · starts 2.8 mi away
- Primrose DriveCat 3 · 2.5 mi at 7.4% · 974 ft · starts 3.4 mi away
- Buckeye RoadCat 3 · 1.5 mi at 8.8% · 709 ft · starts 3.6 mi away
- Old Boy Scout RoadCat 3 · 3.0 mi at 6.3% · 1,001 ft · starts 3.8 mi away
- Road HCat 3 · 2.4 mi at 4.7% · 600 ft · starts 3.9 mi away
- Sherwood RoadCat 3 · 1.9 mi at 5.5% · 561 ft · starts 4.0 mi away
Found from OpenStreetMap roads and USGS 3DEP elevation; ranked on shape only. Category 3: 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.