El Toro Road Climb from Heidi Lisa Lane
- long (9.3 km)
- 5.7 mi
- long (9.3 km)
- of climbing (274 m)
- 899 ft
- of climbing (274 m)
- average grade
- 3%
- average grade
- steepest 500 m
- 17.1%
- steepest 500 m
Elevation profile
From 1,306 ft at the bottom to 2,205 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 El Toro Road this week
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Is it safe to bike up El Toro 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 El Toro Road
- How long and steep is the El Toro Road from Heidi Lisa Lane climb?
- 5.7 miles (9.3 km) at 3% on average, climbing 899 ft (274 m) from 1,306 ft to 2,205 ft. The steepest half kilometre averages 17.1%. That makes it a Category 3 climb.
- Where does the climb start and finish?
- It starts at 33.69979, -117.34574, where El Toro Road leaves Heidi Lisa Lane, and tops out on the road at 33.76933, -117.34805.
- Is El Toro Road paved?
- Mostly: OpenStreetMap tags 87% 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
- Lindell RoadCat 3 · 2.5 mi at 5.4% · 719 ft · starts 0.9 mi away
- Amorose StreetCat 3 · 2.6 mi at 4.4% · 600 ft · starts 2.7 mi away
- McVicker Canyon Park RoadCat 3 · 1.1 mi at 9.6% · 548 ft · starts 3.0 mi away
- Ortega HighwayCat 2 · 4.9 mi at 5.2% · 1,362 ft · starts 3.3 mi away
- Adelfa StreetCat 3 · 1.3 mi at 8.8% · 614 ft · starts 3.9 mi away
- Elsinore Heights DriveCat 3 · 0.8 mi at 13% · 541 ft · starts 5.0 mi away
- Skylark DriveCat 3 · 1.1 mi at 9.3% · 564 ft · starts 5.8 mi away
- Long Canyon Road near Lake ElsinoreCat 3 · 3.3 mi at 5.8% · 1,010 ft · starts 6.2 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.