Evans Road Climb from Bakersfield-Glennville Road
- long (24.9 km)
- 15 mi
- long (24.9 km)
- of climbing (957 m)
- 3,140 ft
- of climbing (957 m)
- average grade
- 3.8%
- average grade
- steepest 500 m
- 9.6%
- steepest 500 m
Elevation profile
From 2,956 ft at the bottom to 6,096 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 Evans Road this week
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Is it safe to bike up Evans 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 Evans Road
- How long and steep is the Evans Road from Bakersfield-Glennville Road climb?
- 15 miles (24.9 km) at 3.8% on average, climbing 3,140 ft (957 m) from 2,956 ft to 6,096 ft. The steepest half kilometre averages 9.6%. That makes it a Hors catégorie climb.
- Where does the climb start and finish?
- It starts at 35.71164, -118.73959, where Evans Road leaves Bakersfield-Glennville Road, and tops out at Greenhorn Summit at 35.73883, -118.55634.
- Is Evans 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
- Whites Mill RoadCat 1 · 5.6 mi at 7.3% · 2,146 ft · starts 3.4 mi away
- Poso Flat RoadCat 3 · 3.0 mi at 3.7% · 584 ft · starts 6.3 mi away
- Poso Flat RoadCat 2 · 2.5 mi at 10% · 1,302 ft · starts 6.5 mi away
- Blue Mountain Road near PortervilleCat 3 · 1.9 mi at 6.1% · 607 ft · starts 7.0 mi away
- Alder Creek RoadCat 1 · dirt · 7.2 mi at 6.1% · 2,306 ft · starts 7.1 mi away
- Poso RoadCat 2 · 2.9 mi at 10.9% · 1,683 ft · starts 7.4 mi away
- Sugarloaf DriveCat 2 · 5.6 mi at 4.8% · 1,411 ft · starts 7.8 mi away
- Ramel Lynn RoadCat 3 · 2.2 mi at 6.2% · 722 ft · starts 8.7 mi away
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.