Lick Creek Road Climb
- long (1.9 km)
- 1.2 mi
- long (1.9 km)
- of climbing (212 m)
- 696 ft
- of climbing (212 m)
- average grade
- 11%
- average grade
- steepest 500 m
- 12.3%
- steepest 500 m
Elevation profile
From 1,877 ft at the bottom to 2,572 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 Lick Creek Road this week
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Is it safe to bike up Lick Creek 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 Lick Creek Road
- How long and steep is the Lick Creek Road climb?
- 1.2 miles (1.9 km) at 11% on average, climbing 696 ft (212 m) from 1,877 ft to 2,572 ft. The steepest half kilometre averages 12.3%. That makes it a Category 3 climb.
- Where does the climb start and finish?
- It starts at 41.67865, -123.34845, where Lick Creek Road leaves Elk Creek Road, and tops out at Bishop Road at 41.67421, -123.35895.
- Is Lick Creek Road paved?
- Mostly: OpenStreetMap tags 54% 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
- East Fork Elk RoadHC · dirt · 10 mi at 5.6% · 3,005 ft · starts 4.9 mi away
- Independence Creek RoadCat 2 · 4.7 mi at 8.2% · 2,044 ft · starts 5.4 mi away
- Bear Peak RoadHC · dirt · 11 mi at 6.5% · 3,773 ft · starts 5.4 mi away
- Clear Creek RoadCat 3 · 2.4 mi at 5.8% · 728 ft · starts 5.6 mi away
- Douglas Creek RoadCat 3 · 3.0 mi at 6% · 942 ft · starts 5.9 mi away
- Thompson Ridge RoadHC · 18 mi at 4.4% · 4,098 ft · starts 8.1 mi away
- Fryingpan Ridge RoadHC · dirt · 12 mi at 5.4% · 3,409 ft · starts 8.1 mi away
- China Creek Road from China Grade RoadCat 1 · dirt · 6.7 mi at 6.1% · 2,149 ft · starts 8.3 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.