Crown Valley Road Climb
- long (10.9 km)
- 6.8 mi
- long (10.9 km)
- of climbing (357 m)
- 1,171 ft
- of climbing (357 m)
- average grade
- 3.3%
- average grade
- steepest 500 m
- 8.3%
- steepest 500 m
Elevation profile
From 2,559 ft at the bottom to 3,730 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 Crown Valley Road this week
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Is it safe to bike up Crown Valley 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 Crown Valley Road
- How long and steep is the Crown Valley Road climb?
- 6.8 miles (10.9 km) at 3.3% on average, climbing 1,171 ft (357 m) from 2,559 ft to 3,730 ft. The steepest half kilometre averages 8.3%. That makes it a Category 2 climb.
- Where does the climb start and finish?
- It starts at 34.44262, -118.21499, where Crown Valley Road leaves Soledad Canyon Road, and ends where the road ends at 34.53086, -118.19481.
- Is Crown Valley Road paved?
- Mostly: OpenStreetMap tags 80% 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
- Hubbard Road from Escondido Canyon RoadCat 3 · 2.4 mi at 4.3% · 545 ft · starts 2.3 mi away
- Aliso Canyon RoadCat 2 · 7.3 mi at 3.6% · 1,362 ft · starts 3.4 mi away
- Red Rover Mine RoadCat 3 · 2.5 mi at 5.1% · 666 ft · starts 3.4 mi away
- Desert RoadCat 3 · 1.8 mi at 7.1% · 669 ft · starts 4.4 mi away
- Bear Trap Canyon RoadCat 1 · dirt · 7.4 mi at 6.2% · 2,428 ft · starts 4.6 mi away
- Mount Gleason Road near La Cañada FlintridgeCat 3 · 2.4 mi at 7.3% · 909 ft · starts 5.7 mi away
- Bpl RoadCat 3 · 1.5 mi at 6.8% · 531 ft · starts 6.1 mi away
- Telephone RoadCat 2 · 1.9 mi at 12.1% · 1,188 ft · starts 6.1 mi away
Found from OpenStreetMap roads and USGS 3DEP elevation; ranked on shape only. Category 2: 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.