Middletown Park Drive Climb
- long (3.9 km)
- 2.4 mi
- long (3.9 km)
- of climbing (250 m)
- 820 ft
- of climbing (250 m)
- average grade
- 6.5%
- average grade
- steepest 500 m
- 13.1%
- steepest 500 m
Elevation profile
From 883 ft at the bottom to 1,703 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 Middletown Park Drive this week
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Is it safe to bike up Middletown Park Drive?
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 Middletown Park Drive
- How long and steep is the Middletown Park Drive climb?
- 2.4 miles (3.9 km) at 6.5% on average, climbing 820 ft (250 m) from 883 ft to 1,703 ft. The steepest half kilometre averages 13.1%. That makes it a Category 3 climb.
- Where does the climb start and finish?
- It starts at 40.54137, -122.47384, where Middletown Park Drive leaves Swasey Drive, and tops out on the road at 40.53668, -122.49939.
- Is Middletown Park Drive 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
- Falcons View DriveCat 3 · 1.4 mi at 9.3% · 669 ft · starts 2.9 mi away
- Muletown RoadCat 3 · 2.0 mi at 5.2% · 545 ft · starts 3.4 mi away
- Zogg Mine RoadCat 3 · 3.6 mi at 5.5% · 1,033 ft · starts 4.3 mi away
- Iron Mountain Road near Shasta LakeHC · 12 mi at 4.5% · 2,762 ft · starts 6.1 mi away
- Buell RoadCat 3 · 2.1 mi at 5.9% · 640 ft · starts 8.9 mi away
- Rainbow Lake RoadCat 2 · 4.6 mi at 6% · 1,437 ft · starts 9.1 mi away
- Rector Creek RoadCat 3 · 2.8 mi at 5.8% · 860 ft · starts 9.2 mi away
- Iron Mountain Road from Whiskey Creek RoadCat 1 · dirt · 3.2 mi at 13.4% · 2,267 ft · starts 11 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.