White Mountain Road Climb near Bishop
- long (24.2 km)
- 15 mi
- long (24.2 km)
- of climbing (1,093 m)
- 3,586 ft
- of climbing (1,093 m)
- average grade
- 4.5%
- average grade
- steepest 500 m
- 10.4%
- steepest 500 m
Elevation profile
From 7,280 ft at the bottom to 10,866 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 White Mountain Road this week
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Is it safe to bike up White Mountain 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 White Mountain Road
- How long and steep is the White Mountain Road near Bishop climb?
- 15 miles (24.2 km) at 4.5% on average, climbing 3,586 ft (1,093 m) from 7,280 ft to 10,866 ft. The steepest half kilometre averages 10.4%. That makes it a Hors catégorie climb.
- Where does the climb start and finish?
- It starts at 37.28232, -118.15121, and tops out on the road at 37.43846, -118.19484.
- Is White Mountain Road paved?
- Mostly: OpenStreetMap tags 68% 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
- Death Valley - Big Pine Road near BishopHC · 14 mi at 5.2% · 3,714 ft · starts 8.7 mi away
- Redding Canyon RoadCat 1 · dirt · 5.1 mi at 9.7% · 2,585 ft · starts 9.2 mi away
- Glacier Lodge RoadHC · 10 mi at 7.1% · 3,783 ft · starts 11 mi away
- Wyman Canyon RoadHC · dirt · 16 mi at 5.6% · 4,711 ft · starts 12 mi away
- Silver Canyon RoadHC · dirt · 11 mi at 11.4% · 6,365 ft · starts 13 mi away
- Coyote Flats to Piper Peak TrailHC · dirt · 7.3 mi at 13.7% · 5,240 ft · starts 14 mi away
- Piper RoadCat 1 · dirt · 7.1 mi at 5.8% · 2,192 ft · starts 14 mi away
- Death Valley - Big Pine RoadHC · 15 mi at 5.3% · 4,262 ft · starts 15 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.