Yerba Buena Road
- mapped
- 12.5 mi
- mapped
- motorcycle crashes, 2021–2025
- 13
- motorcycle crashes, 2021–2025
- serious or fatal
- 5
- serious or fatal
- fatal
- 0
- fatal
Is Yerba Buena Road open today?
Not a state route, so Caltrans doesn’t list it. No LA County closures listed.
Checked Fri, Nov 13, 8:38 PM Pacific. These lists don't include every closure: Forest Service gates and fire closures can be missing. All riding roads this week.
Is Yerba Buena Road 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: 13 motorcycle crashes were reported along its 12.5 mapped miles from 2021–2025, 5 of them serious or fatal. 46% involved no other vehicle. What to watch for: Blind hairpins, rough patches, single-lane sections and very little run-off.
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Motorcycle crashes and deaths on Yerba Buena Road
13 motorcycle crashes were reported within 60 m of the road from 2021–2025: 5 killed or seriously injured someone, and 0 were fatal. 46% 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.
How riders crash here
46% of crashes here involve only the motorcycle, usually running wide or losing grip in a corner. Enter corners slower, look through the bend, and watch for gravel, sand and diesel.
Places along the way
Camping near Yerba Buena Road
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.
- Circle X Ranch Group CampgroundGroup campground · National Park Service · 1 site · 1,594 ft · 0.1 mi from the road · feeOn the mapReserve
- Camp Bloomfield359 ft · 1.5 mi from the roadOn the map
- Sycamore Group Multi-Use AreaNational Park Service · 329 ft · 3 mi from the roadOn the mapWebsite
- Sycamore Canyon Campground17 ft · 3 mi from the roadOn the mapWebsite
- Hike and Bike CampsitesSycamore Canyon Campground · 13 ft · 3.1 mi from the road · feeOn the map
- Danielson Group Multi-Use CampgroundGroup campground · 295 ft · 3.2 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 Yerba Buena Road
- What is Yerba Buena Road like to ride?
- Narrow, very tight road from PCH up through the western Santa Monica Mountains.
- How long is Yerba Buena Road?
- About 12.5 miles as mapped in OpenStreetMap, for the stretch we cover.
- Is Yerba Buena Road open today?
- As of Fri, Nov 13, 8:38 PM Pacific, no LA County 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.