Carrizo Road Climb
- long (4.3 km)
- 2.7 mi
- long (4.3 km)
- of climbing (224 m)
- 735 ft
- of climbing (224 m)
- average grade
- 5.2%
- average grade
- steepest 500 m
- 8.4%
- steepest 500 m
Elevation profile
From 3,465 ft at the bottom to 4,199 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 Carrizo Road this week
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Is it safe to bike up Carrizo 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. What the records show: no bike crashes were reported along the climb from 2021–2025.
Common questions about Carrizo Road
- How long and steep is the Carrizo Road climb?
- 2.7 miles (4.3 km) at 5.2% on average, climbing 735 ft (224 m) from 3,465 ft to 4,199 ft. The steepest half kilometre averages 8.4%. That makes it a Category 3 climb.
- Where does the climb start and finish?
- It starts at 33.60849, -116.4194, where Carrizo Road leaves Pines To Palms Highway, and tops out at Dunn Road at 33.62693, -116.44363.
- Is Carrizo Road paved?
- Mostly: OpenStreetMap tags 51% 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
- Sawmill Road from Pidgeon Springs RoadCat 1 · dirt · 5.3 mi at 8% · 2,231 ft · starts 2.6 mi away
- Santa Rosa Road from Pines To Palms HighwayHC · dirt · 12 mi at 5.6% · 3,704 ft · starts 6.0 mi away
- Pines To Palms Highway near Palm DesertHC · 23 mi at 3.9% · 4,793 ft · starts 8.2 mi away
- Dunn RoadHC · dirt · 9.9 mi at 6.5% · 3,402 ft · starts 11 mi away
- Morris Ranch RoadCat 3 · 3.6 mi at 5.1% · 971 ft · starts 12 mi away
- Burnt Valley RoadCat 3 · 2.0 mi at 5.4% · 574 ft · starts 13 mi away
- Hill StreetCat 3 · 2.4 mi at 5.5% · 689 ft · starts 15 mi away
- Thomas Mountain RoadCat 1 · dirt · 7.3 mi at 5.9% · 2,267 ft · starts 15 mi away
Bike crash hotspots nearby
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.