2 miles
Distance
850 ft
Climb
-4 ft
Descent
00:32:32
Avg time

Sulphur Spring Road Details

  • Activities
    • Mountain Bike
    • Hike
    • Trail Running
  • Riding Area
    Soquel Demonstration State Forest
    Santa Cruz, California
  • Difficulty Rating
    Access Trail or Doubletrack rate
  • Voted Difficulty
    Blue (1 vote)
  • Trail Type
    Dirt/Gravel Road
  • Trail Usage
    Multi-use
  • Direction
    Uphill Only
    Popular direction shown
  • Climb Difficulty
    Black Diamond
  • Physical Rating
    Hard
  • Dogs Allowed
    Yes
  • eBike Allowed
    No
  • Local Popularity
    90 in Mountain Biking [+]
    • 5 in Trail Running
    • 5 in Hiking

Sulphur is the second most common way people ride up to the Ridge Trail (where you can conveniently do Brail and Flow). It's a fire road that has a good pitch a third of the way up where it connects to Corral Rd and a pitch at the end just before it opens up to the upper Helipad. People may come down it, but as a fire road there is not much to it and since it is pretty wide, trail conflicts are mitigated.

More Stats for Sulphur Spring Road bike trail
  • Altitude change
    846 ft
  • Altitude min
    1,342 ft
  • Altitude max
    2,188 ft
  • Altitude start
    1,342 ft
  • Altitude end
    2,188 ft
  • Grade
    10.596%
  • Grade max
    -3.57%
  • Grade min
    23.878%
  • Distance climb
    1 miles
  • Distance down
    162 ft
  • Distance flat
    223 ft
  • Avg time
    00:32:32
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on Oct 3, 2019
Dry
Avg: 2 (2 votes)

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  • Significant Issue / Amber
  • Closed

  • Land Owner Overlay
  • Wilderness (typically no bikes in USA)
  • BLM (public)
  • USFS (Wildlife sanctuaries darker than usfs)
  • State land
  • Indigenous
  • Military
Trail Conditions
  • Unknown
  • Snow Groomed
  • Snow Packed
  • Snow Covered
  • Freeze/thaw Cycle
  • Icy
  • Prevalent Mud
  • Wet
  • Variable
  • Dry
  • Very Dry
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  • Restrooms Restrooms
  • eBike Charging Point eBike Charging Point
  • Water Fountain/Source Water Fountain/Source
  • Gate Gate
  • Trail Sign Trail Sign
  • Table or Bench Table or Bench
  • Ladder Ladder
  • Stairs Stairs
  • Bridge Bridge
  • Camping Camping
  • Cabin Cabin
  • Lodge Lodge
  • Bear Cache Bear Cache
  • Dock Dock
  • Ranger Station Ranger Station
  • Summit Summit
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      Sulphur Spring Road Trail Reports

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      Oct 3, 2019 @ 8:19pm
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      Sep 8, 2019 @ 5:12pm
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      Jul 21, 2019 @ 9:35am
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      Recent Ridelog Activity on Trail

      Past Week
      • 12 rides
      • 17 miles avg distance
      6 Months
      • 568 rides
      • 19 miles avg distance
      All
      • 1,099 rides
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      Jun 12, 2018 @ 6:45pm
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