Wildwood Canyon Road Climb
- long (10.7 km)
- 6.6 mi
- long (10.7 km)
- of climbing (445 m)
- 1,460 ft
- of climbing (445 m)
- average grade
- 4.2%
- average grade
- steepest 500 m
- 7.6%
- steepest 500 m
Elevation profile
From 2,247 ft at the bottom to 3,707 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 Wildwood Canyon Road this week
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Is it safe to bike up Wildwood Canyon 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: 1 bike crash was reported on or beside Wildwood Canyon Road along the climb from 2021–2025, 1 of them serious or fatal (1 fatal).
Common questions about Wildwood Canyon Road
- How long and steep is the Wildwood Canyon Road climb?
- 6.6 miles (10.7 km) at 4.2% on average, climbing 1,460 ft (445 m) from 2,247 ft to 3,707 ft. The steepest half kilometre averages 7.6%. That makes it a Category 2 climb.
- Where does the climb start and finish?
- It starts at 34.01309, -117.07516, where Wildwood Canyon Road leaves Calimesa Boulevard, and tops out at Oak Glen Road at 34.00729, -116.9654.
- Is Wildwood Canyon 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
- Avenue ECat 3 · 4.4 mi at 4.3% · 997 ft · starts 1.1 mi away
- Oak Glen Road from Yucaipa BoulevardCat 1 · 9.0 mi at 5.5% · 2,615 ft · starts 1.5 mi away
- Carter StreetCat 3 · 2.6 mi at 6% · 814 ft · starts 4.0 mi away
- Pisgah Peak RoadCat 1 · dirt · 5.6 mi at 7.8% · 2,303 ft · starts 4.7 mi away
- Yucaipa Ridge Truck TrailCat 1 · dirt · 6.3 mi at 7.2% · 2,415 ft · starts 4.7 mi away
- Detective Jeremiah MacKay Memorial HighwayHC · 26 mi at 3.7% · 5,118 ft · starts 5.9 mi away
- Smiley BoulevardCat 2 · 3.6 mi at 5.9% · 1,102 ft · starts 6.1 mi away
- Avenida MiravillaCat 2 · 5.0 mi at 6.3% · 1,667 ft · starts 6.3 mi away
Bike crash hotspots nearby
Found from OpenStreetMap roads and USGS 3DEP elevation; ranked on shape only. Category 2: 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.