Why this ride
150 km one way from Inverness - plan on about 2 h 32 of riding. The plan has 1 food stop marked.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Napa Silverado Trail Backroads · part 2
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 150 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 32
- 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. Inverness
The San Andreas Fault runs straight up Tomales Bay, and in the 1906 earthquake the land on the western side lurched several metres north in a matter of seconds. Inverness sits on that western side, on the shore of the bay, a small village of wooden houses among the trees, at the gateway to the Point Reyes peninsula. It is a quiet, slightly eccentric place, with a general store, a few restaurants and a lot of bird-watchers.
Read the complete Inverness write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Napa Silverado Trail Backroads photo pull-off is where the day begins. Next is Food stop in Allendale.
2. Food stop in Allendale
Planning note
Food stop in Allendale is where this day stops to eat. Next is San Francisco Bay Area.
3. San Francisco Bay Area
Central California's valley floor is flat in a way that has to be seen to be believed. The land around Dixon and Davis, in the Sacramento Valley, is a table of irrigated fields stretching in all directions, with rice, tomatoes, sunflowers, almonds and sugar beets laid out in squares, and the Vaca Mountains rising to the west. A rider coming from the Bay Area crosses the Carquinez Strait, then drops onto this plain, and the change is abrupt: the fog and the redwoods give way to dry air, big skies and long straight roads.
Read the complete Near Dixon, on the way back 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 360 km.
Leg by leg
Food stop in Allendale to San Francisco Bay Area
Food stop in Allendale → San Francisco Bay Area return is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.