Red Rover Mine Road Climb
- long (4.0 km)
- 2.5 mi
- long (4.0 km)
- of climbing (203 m)
- 666 ft
- of climbing (203 m)
- average grade
- 5.1%
- average grade
- steepest 500 m
- 7.7%
- steepest 500 m
Elevation profile
From 2,923 ft at the bottom to 3,589 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 Red Rover Mine Road this week
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Is it safe to bike up Red Rover Mine 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 Red Rover Mine Road
- How long and steep is the Red Rover Mine Road climb?
- 2.5 miles (4.0 km) at 5.1% on average, climbing 666 ft (203 m) from 2,923 ft to 3,589 ft. The steepest half kilometre averages 7.7%. That makes it a Category 3 climb.
- Where does the climb start and finish?
- It starts at 34.4924, -118.21939, where Red Rover Mine Road leaves Escondido Canyon Road, and ends where the road ends at 34.52653, -118.21126.
- Is Red Rover Mine 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
- Hubbard Road from Escondido Canyon RoadCat 3 · 2.4 mi at 4.3% · 545 ft · starts 1.6 mi away
- Telephone RoadCat 2 · 1.9 mi at 12.1% · 1,188 ft · starts 2.7 mi away
- Aliso Canyon RoadCat 2 · 7.3 mi at 3.6% · 1,362 ft · starts 3.0 mi away
- Desert RoadCat 3 · 1.8 mi at 7.1% · 669 ft · starts 3.1 mi away
- Crown Valley RoadCat 2 · 6.8 mi at 3.3% · 1,171 ft · starts 3.4 mi away
- Willow Spring Gulch RoadCat 3 · 2.4 mi at 6.9% · 869 ft · starts 4.2 mi away
- HauserCat 3 · 1.2 mi at 9.9% · 653 ft · starts 4.6 mi away
- Angeles Forest Highway from East Soledad Pass RoadCat 3 · 4.3 mi at 3.8% · 866 ft · starts 5.9 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.