East Bay Dirty Route Recs

[Patch T]

Hi Folks,

Looking for some ride & route recommendations in the East Bay; rides that mix paved and unpaved roads that smartly link & loop together nice sections, great scenery, challenging bits and chill bits. 

Preferences that are in no way fixed requirements:

- any length, but ideally in the 35-65 mi range (but open to longer!)

- starting/ending: ideally somewhere near a BART station. 

- doable with 650b x 48mm knobbies (ie not a mountain bike) 

- bonus points for food/beverage related pit stop/s

Thanks so much!

Patch in Oakland

[Sarah Carlson]

Hey there!

You have lots options and an easy to get to fun one is Wildcat canyon. You can get off at Del Norte BART and go a little ways on the Ohlone Greenway before taking some streets to connect up with Wildcat Canyon (sorry I can't fill in the gaps on that one, this is where we need google maps to help. OR you can get out at N, Berkeley BART and ride the Greenway out past Del Norte BART and do the same thing. You can either out and back or make it a loop, exit the park after the Little farm (last little bit is no bikes so don't run over little children) go up up up Canon, and then you can take a nice descent down Spruce to Los Angeles, connect with Marin and back to the Greenway and BART. That's a bit less miles but you can make it more once you are up in Tilden.

Sarah

[Bill Lindsay]

Have a look at the Routes page for the Grizzly Peak Century.  They have two gravel routes and they are right there on ridewithgps for you to follow

https://www.grizz.org/century/routes/

Bill Lindsay

El Cerrito, CA

On Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 6:07:03 PM UTC-7 Patch T wrote:

[Stephen]

Hey Patch,

I used to go up and ride the loop around redwood regional park, definitely some challenging hills in there but I remember it being fun. I've just made it out to Marin, been here a week. Would love to link up for a ride and join you for a mixed terrain adventure out thataways, and itd be fun to get some rides going over here if you have the time. I've got the ram here too, gotta get some good road rides in out there where it aint foggy!

Best,

Stephen currently in Marin

[Stephen]

Another idea: I think you can ride fire roads down the ridge all the way to lake chabot