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2.3 miles
Distance
260 ft
Climb
-910 ft
Descent
00:15:46
Avg time
-650 ft
Altitude change
1,300 ft
Altitude min
1,953 ft
Altitude max
1,950 ft
Altitude start
1,299 ft
Altitude end
-5.3%
Grade
-56.7%
Grade max
32.7%
Grade min
2,956 ft
Distance climb
2 miles
Distance down
1,184 ft
Distance flat
00:15:46
Avg time
Roller Coasters Details
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Activities
- Mountain Bike
- E-Bike
- Gravel Bike
- Adaptive Bike
- Hike
- Trail Running
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Riding AreaCuesta Ridge West
San Luis Obispo, California -
Difficulty Rating
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Voted DifficultyGreen (1 vote)
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Local Popularity70 in Mountain Biking [+]
- 70 in E-Biking
- 60 in Trail Running
- 50 in Hiking
- 5 in Adaptive Biking
- 80 in Gravel Biking
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Trail TypeDoubletrack
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Bike TypeAM, XC, Adaptive MTB, CX, Gravel
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DirectionBoth Directions
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SeasonYear Round
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Dogs AllowedYes
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eBike AllowedYes up to Class 1
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Land OwnerUSFS
The Roller Coasters Trail is an undulating path that begins atop the West Cuesta Grade and follows the wavy ridge to the Union Pacific Railroad Tracks.
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Recent Activity on Trail
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- 0 rides
6 Months
- 12 rides
- 18 miles avg distance
All
- 58 rides
- Last: Oct 11, 2026
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Directions to roller-coasters trailhead
(35.345040, -120.640300)
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mtb
10:22 |
312 |
Jan 17, 2022 , San Luis Obispo
mtb
12:21 |
399 |
Jan 1, 2021 , San Luis Obispo
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6 Reviews & Comments
crisa531
About ⅔ of the way down Roller Coasters, where the trail goes through Cal Poly property, the drive-through gate is locked and the walk-through gate has been welded shut. You will need to put yourself and your bike through the barbed wire fence :/. Feb. 10, 2022
Cece4
Trail has been redone. You so have to go over a few gates but it has been newly graded, there also is another trail made called panorama that connects with roller coasters. Panorama takes you to Hbar which takes you to stage coach road. Nice little trek! 7.5 miles total of starting from TV tower road. There are now trail markers too so it makes it easy and hard to get lost. Also part of the trail goes under the railroad tracks in a tunnel. Pretty neat.
Noell0bUTb
Trail seems closed. Dirt on this trail is extremely loose and you’ll have to hop several gates to make it up.
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