Willow Spring Gulch Road Climb
- long (3.9 km)
- 2.4 mi
- long (3.9 km)
- of climbing (265 m)
- 869 ft
- of climbing (265 m)
- average grade
- 6.9%
- average grade
- steepest 500 m
- 14.5%
- steepest 500 m
Elevation profile
From 2,943 ft at the bottom to 3,812 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 Willow Spring Gulch Road this week
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Is it safe to bike up Willow Spring Gulch 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 Willow Spring Gulch Road
- How long and steep is the Willow Spring Gulch Road climb?
- 2.4 miles (3.9 km) at 6.9% on average, climbing 869 ft (265 m) from 2,943 ft to 3,812 ft. The steepest half kilometre averages 14.5%. That makes it a Category 3 climb.
- Where does the climb start and finish?
- It starts at 34.52845, -118.27908, where Willow Spring Gulch Road leaves Anthony Road, and ends where the road ends at 34.55708, -118.26379.
- Is Willow Spring Gulch 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
- HauserCat 3 · 1.2 mi at 9.9% · 653 ft · starts 1.4 mi away
- Anthony RoadCat 3 · 2.9 mi at 6.5% · 984 ft · starts 3.4 mi away
- Telephone RoadCat 2 · 1.9 mi at 12.1% · 1,188 ft · starts 3.6 mi away
- Escondido Canyon RoadCat 3 · 4.6 mi at 3.3% · 801 ft · starts 3.8 mi away
- Red Rover Mine RoadCat 3 · 2.5 mi at 5.1% · 666 ft · starts 4.2 mi away
- Rowher TrailCat 1 · dirt · 3.1 mi at 13.5% · 2,208 ft · starts 4.9 mi away
- Lookout TrailCat 1 · dirt · 2.7 mi at 15.6% · 2,185 ft · starts 5.2 mi away
- Bouquet Canyon RoadCat 3 · 3.1 mi at 3.4% · 558 ft · starts 5.6 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.