Vision Road Climb
- long (2.8 km)
- 1.7 mi
- long (2.8 km)
- of climbing (278 m)
- 912 ft
- of climbing (278 m)
- average grade
- 10%
- average grade
- steepest 500 m
- 13.9%
- steepest 500 m
Elevation profile
From 13 ft at the bottom to 925 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 Vision Road this week
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Is it safe to bike up Vision 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 Vision Road
- How long and steep is the Vision Road climb?
- 1.7 miles (2.8 km) at 10% on average, climbing 912 ft (278 m) from 13 ft to 925 ft. The steepest half kilometre averages 13.9%. That makes it a Category 3 climb.
- Where does the climb start and finish?
- It starts at 38.10291, -122.85921, where Vision Road leaves Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, and tops out at Mount Vision Road at 38.09853, -122.8847.
- Is Vision Road paved?
- Mostly: OpenStreetMap tags 76% 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
- Drakes View DriveCat 3 · 1.3 mi at 9.4% · 663 ft · starts 2.2 mi away
- Mount Vision RoadCat 2 · 4.3 mi at 5.3% · 1,198 ft · starts 2.4 mi away
- Limantour Road from Limantour Spit RoadCat 3 · 1.7 mi at 7.5% · 663 ft · starts 4.0 mi away
- Marshall-Petaluma Road from Shoreline HighwayCat 3 · 2.9 mi at 4.8% · 728 ft · starts 4.5 mi away
- Limantour Road near FairfaxCat 3 · 3.4 mi at 4.4% · 787 ft · starts 4.8 mi away
- Marshall-Petaluma Road near PetalumaCat 3 · 2.9 mi at 3.6% · 564 ft · starts 5.2 mi away
- Pierce Point RoadCat 3 · 2.6 mi at 4.4% · 604 ft · starts 5.5 mi away
- Fairfax-Bolinas Road from Shoreline HighwayCat 2 · 4.4 mi at 6.5% · 1,496 ft · starts 15 mi away
Places to ride to 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.