Why this ride
Out of Adelanto, one way: 225 km, roughly 3 h 16 in the saddle. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Big Bear Rim Roads · part 3
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 225 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 16
- 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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
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. 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
Los Angeles / Southern California is where the day begins. Next is Big Bear Rim Roads checkpoint 8.
2. View Park-Windsor Hills
Up on the slopes of the Baldwin Hills, in the middle of the Los Angeles basin, View Park and Windsor Hills look out over the city in every direction: downtown's towers to the north-east, the Hollywood sign and the San Gabriels to the north, the ocean and the airport to the west. It is a leafy, quiet neighbourhood of curving streets and handsome 1920s to 1950s houses, and since the 1960s it has been one of the most affluent Black communities in the United States, sometimes called the Black Beverly Hills. Ray Charles lived here, and the area has been home to generations of doctors, judges, musicians and athletes.
Read the complete View Park-Windsor Hills write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Finish at Big Bear Rim Roads checkpoint 8. That is the ride. Next is Back to Big.
3. Back to Big
Garden Grove sits in the middle of Orange County's great flat basin, a tapestry of low-rise suburbs between Disneyland to the north and the beach towns to the south-west. The label on this stop only says Big, presumably short for Big Bear, so what I can honestly describe is the setting, which is the low, built-up plain from which the long ride into the mountains begins. The San Bernardino range stands to the north-east, and on a clear winter morning its snow-covered ridges seem to float above the haze.
Read the complete Big 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 225 km.