Highway 128, Sage Canyon & Lake Berryessa
- mapped
- 50 mi
- mapped
- motorcycle crashes, 2021–2025
- 47
- motorcycle crashes, 2021–2025
- serious or fatal
- 18
- serious or fatal
- fatal
- 5
- fatal
Is Highway 128, Sage Canyon & Lake Berryessa open today?
No Caltrans closures listed.
Checked Sat, Nov 14, 4:31 PM Pacific. These lists don't include every closure: Forest Service gates and fire closures can be missing. All riding roads this week.
Is Highway 128, Sage Canyon & Lake Berryessa safe to ride on a motorcycle?
We don't rate roads as safe or unsafe: crash counts can't say how risky a road is, and popular riding roads have more crashes partly because more people ride them. What the records show: 47 motorcycle crashes were reported along its 50 mapped miles from 2021–2025, 18 of them serious or fatal (5 fatal). 64% involved no other vehicle. What to watch for: Wine-country and lake traffic on weekends, blind corners along the water, and summer heat.
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Motorcycle crashes and deaths on Highway 128, Sage Canyon & Lake Berryessa
47 motorcycle crashes were reported within 60 m of the road from 2021–2025: 18 killed or seriously injured someone, and 5 were fatal. 64% involved no other vehicle. Busier roads have more crashes partly because more people ride them, so these counts don't say how risky the road is.
Bends, straights and junctions
Outside city limits, 52 motorcycle crashes were reported on Highway 128, Sage Canyon & Lake Berryessa from 2021–2026, 6 of them within 40 m of a junction. Of the other 46, 32 (70%) were in bends tighter than a 100 m radius, which make up 27% of the road. So crashes gather in the bends, more than their share of the road. 23 of the 36 crashes with no other vehicle were in bends. Of the 21 crashes on a grade of 3% or more where the rider's direction is known, 16 were going downhill, though both directions carry about the same traffic.
A crash alone in a bend usually means running wide or losing grip: set your speed before the bend, look through it, and expect gravel, sand or diesel mid-corner.
Crashes with another vehicle in bends are often an oncoming car across the centre line: keep away from the centre line in blind bends.
Going down, speed builds before the bend: brake earlier on the descent than you would on the way up.
The bends with the most crashes
- 3 crashes in one bend: 2 with no other vehicle; tightest radius about 86 m.
How we tell bends from straights, and every riding road compared
Camping near Highway 128, Sage Canyon & Lake Berryessa
Campgrounds and RV parks within about 5 miles of the road (straight line), nearest first. Seasons, fire restrictions and closures change, so check with whoever runs it before you go.
- Solano Lake CampgroundSolano County · 136 ft · 0.1 mi from the road · feeOn the mapWebsite
- Spanish Flat Camp Site Office531 ft · 2.6 mi from the roadOn the mapWebsite
- Steele Canyon Camp Site445 ft · 2.6 mi from the roadOn the mapWebsite
- Lupine Shores Camp Site440 ft · 2.6 mi from the roadOn the mapWebsite
- Spanish Flat Camp Site449 ft · 2.6 mi from the roadOn the mapWebsite
- Group CampGroup campground · 1,273 ft · 4.8 mi from the roadOn the map
Campgrounds from Recreation.gov (federal campgrounds, 2026-10-18) and OpenStreetMap (2026-09-28); water, toilets and showers only where they're listed. Elevation from USGS.
Common questions about Highway 128, Sage Canyon & Lake Berryessa
- What is Highway 128, Sage Canyon & Lake Berryessa like to ride?
- Winding road from Napa Valley through Sage Canyon and along Lake Berryessa.
- How long is Highway 128, Sage Canyon & Lake Berryessa?
- About 50 miles as mapped in OpenStreetMap, for the stretch we cover.
- Is Highway 128, Sage Canyon & Lake Berryessa open today?
- As of Sat, Nov 14, 4:31 PM Pacific, no Caltrans closures are listed on it today. These lists don't include every closure (Forest Service gates and fire closures can be missing), so check Caltrans QuickMap before you go.
Other riding roads nearby
Crashes: motorcycle crashes reported within 60 m of the road, 2021–2025, from the California Crash Reporting System (CCRS). Road: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Weather: National Weather Service. Distances to other roads are between their middles, in a straight line. How the data works.