Highway 33 (Ojai to Cuyama)
- mapped
- 54.8 mi
- mapped
- motorcycle crashes, 2021–2025
- 43
- motorcycle crashes, 2021–2025
- serious or fatal
- 16
- serious or fatal
- fatal
- 5
- fatal
Is Highway 33 (Ojai to Cuyama) open today?
No Caltrans closures listed.
1 more closure listed later this week
- One-way traffic controlMatilija Hot Springs Rd → Matilja Lake Rd · K-Rail Installation · North / SouthMon 7:01 AM – Mon 5:59 PM; Tue 7:01 AM – Tue 5:59 PM; Wed 7:01 AM – Wed 5:59 PM · Caltrans
Checked Sat, Nov 14, 11:48 AM Pacific. These lists don't include every closure: Forest Service gates and fire closures can be missing. All riding roads this week.
Is Highway 33 (Ojai to Cuyama) 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: 43 motorcycle crashes were reported along its 54.8 mapped miles from 2021–2025, 16 of them serious or fatal (5 fatal). 63% involved no other vehicle. What to watch for: Long distances between fuel and help, rockfall, and sections that close after storms.
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Motorcycle crashes and deaths on Highway 33 (Ojai to Cuyama)
43 motorcycle crashes were reported within 60 m of the road from 2021–2025: 16 killed or seriously injured someone, and 5 were fatal. 63% 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, 46 motorcycle crashes were reported on Highway 33 (Ojai to Cuyama) from 2021–2026, 4 of them within 40 m of a junction. Of the other 42, 24 (57%) 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. 18 of the 33 crashes with no other vehicle were in bends.
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.
The bends with the most crashes
- 6 crashes in one bend: 4 with no other vehicle; tightest radius about 51 m.
- 3 crashes in one bend: 3 with no other vehicle, 1 of 3 on the grade going downhill; tightest radius about 87 m.
How we tell bends from straights, and every riding road compared
Places along the way
Camping near Highway 33 (Ojai to Cuyama)
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.
- Holiday Group CampgroundGroup campground · Forest Service · 1 site · 2,143 ft · on the road · feeOn the mapReserve
- Wheeler Gorge CampgroundForest Service · 66 sites · 1,822 ft · on the road · feeOn the mapReserve
- Rancho Nuevo CampgroundForest Service · 3,498 ft · 1.4 mi from the roadOn the mapRecreation.gov
- Pine Mountain CampgroundForest Service · 7 sites · 6,638 ft · 2.6 mi from the road · feeOn the mapReserve
- Reyes Creek CampgroundForest Service · 27 sites · 3,942 ft · 2.7 mi from the roadOn the mapReserve
- Maple Camp3,773 ft · 2.7 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 33 (Ojai to Cuyama)
- What is Highway 33 (Ojai to Cuyama) like to ride?
- Long, remote mountain highway through Los Padres National Forest.
- How long is Highway 33 (Ojai to Cuyama)?
- About 54.8 miles as mapped in OpenStreetMap, for the stretch we cover.
- Is Highway 33 (Ojai to Cuyama) open today?
- As of Sat, Nov 14, 11:48 AM 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.