CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Marin Headlands and Point Reyes · part 2
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 153 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 41
- 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. Food stop in Kenwood
Kenwood sits in the Valley of the Moon, the name Jack London gave to the Sonoma Valley, where he built his ranch and his ill-fated dream house, Wolf House, which burned before he could move in. The ruins and his grave lie in Jack London State Historic Park in nearby Glen Ellen, and the valley around them remains one of the most beautiful in California, with vineyards, oak woodland and the Mayacamas Mountains rising to the east.
Read the complete Food stop in Kenwood write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Food stop in Kenwood is where the day begins. Next is Marin Headlands and Point Reyes photo pull-off.
2. Bolinas
Bolinas does not want to be found, and it has made that clear for decades. Locals have a long tradition of removing the road sign that points to the town from Highway 1, so you may have to watch for the unmarked turnoff at the end of Bolinas Lagoon. The reward is a small, eccentric, salt-weathered village at the tip of a mesa on the Marin coast, with a few streets of old wooden buildings, a beach, surfers and an atmosphere that feels decades removed from the Bay Area just over the hill.
Read the complete Bolinas write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Marin Headlands and Point Reyes photo pull-off comes up about 97 km into the recorded legs. Next is Marin Headlands and Point Reyes checkpoint 8.
3. Near Daly City
South of San Francisco's city limits, the land runs out abruptly. Daly City's houses, the ones with the colourful matching boxes that inspired the song Little Boxes, cover the hills right up to the edge of high, crumbling sea cliffs, and below them the Pacific pounds a long empty beach.
Read the complete Near Daly City 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 223 km.
Leg by leg
Food stop in Kenwood to Bolinas
Food stop in Kenwood → Bolinas is 97 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.