Why this ride
Out of Garden Grove, one way: 381 km, roughly 6 h 04 in the saddle. On the way it passes Rancho Palos Verdes, near Camarillo and near Lake Los Angeles. The climb of the day is San Pedro. It tops out at about 1,150 m.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Big Bear Rim Roads · short arc
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 381 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 6 h 04
- Journey
- One way; return travel is separate
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Fuel stop near Garden Grove
Planning note
Big Bear Rim Roads is where the day begins. Next is Big Bear Rim Roads high point.
2. San Pedro
The road out to Point Fermin ends at a Victorian lighthouse built in the 1870s, a wooden tower with gingerbread trim that once guided ships into San Pedro Bay. It stands in a cliff-top park at the very southern tip of Los Angeles, and beside it the land has been slowly sliding into the sea for a century, leaving a jumble of broken streets and foundations known as Sunken City.
Read the complete San Pedro write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
You top out here; the road stops climbing. Next is Big Bear Rim Roads scenic road.
3. Rancho Palos Verdes
The Palos Verdes Peninsula is a big block of hills pushing out into the Pacific at the south-western corner of Los Angeles, and Rancho Palos Verdes wraps around its southern edge. The coast road here, Palos Verdes Drive South and its continuation west, is about as scenic as a short ride in the LA basin gets: bluffs dropping to the sea, coves, kelp beds, and on a clear day the long grey shape of Santa Catalina Island floating on the horizon.
Read the complete Rancho Palos Verdes write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Big Bear Rim Roads scenic road. Next is Photo stop near Camarillo.
4. Photo stop near Camarillo
Planning note
Photo stop near Camarillo, about halfway. Next is Food stop near Lake Los Angeles.
5. Food stop near Lake Los Angeles
Planning note
Food at 350 km, roughly 6 hours into the riding. Next is Los Angeles / Southern California.
6. Los Angeles / Southern California
Joshua trees and creosote bush spread out toward a horizon cut by the San Bernardino Mountains to the south, and on a clear morning the snow on the higher ridges looks borrowed from another state. Adelanto, a town of some thirty-odd thousand, is the sensible place to sort fuel and a breakfast burrito; Victorville sits right next to it with more of everything.
Read the complete Los Angeles / Southern California write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The route ends here after 438 km.
Leg by leg
Fuel stop near Garden Grove to San Pedro
Fuel stop near Garden Grove → San Pedro is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Photo stop near Camarillo to Food stop near Lake Los Angeles
Photo stop near Camarillo → Food stop near Lake Los Angeles is 159 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Food stop near Lake Los Angeles to Los Angeles / Southern California
Food stop near Lake Los Angeles → Los Angeles / Southern California return is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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