Why this ride
A 190 km one-way ride from near Dixon, about 2 h 44 of riding.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Napa Silverado Trail Backroads · part 3
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 190 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 44
- 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. 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
San Francisco Bay Area is where the day begins. Next is Napa Silverado Trail Backroads checkpoint 8.
2. 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
Finish at Napa Silverado Trail Backroads checkpoint 8. That is the ride. Next is Back to Napa Silverado.
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3. Back to Napa Silverado
The southern end of San Francisco Bay is not the part that appears on postcards, which makes it more interesting for anyone who likes places that are a little overlooked. Egrets, avocets and pelicans work the shallows, and the smell on a warm day is salt, mud and marsh.
Read the complete Napa Silverado 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 190 km.
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