1.5 miles
Distance
850 ft
Climb
-4 ft
Descent
00:33:28
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
  • Bike Type
    Gravel, Adaptive MTB
  • 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 [+]
    • 60 in Trail Running
    • 65 in Hiking
  • Land Manager
    CAL FIRE

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.

Local Trail Association
Traditionally Indigenous Territory
More Stats for Sulphur Spring Road mountain bike trail 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 mile
  • Distance down
    162 ft
  • Distance flat
    223 ft
  • Avg time
    00:33:28
  • Avg reverse time
    00:27:04
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on Jul 3, 2022
Dry
Avg: 2.5 (6 votes)
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      Sulphur Spring Road Trail Reports

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      Jul 3, 2022 @ 10:09am
      Jul 3, 2022
      Jun 19, 2022 @ 2:02pm
      Jun 19, 2022
      Jun 12, 2022 @ 6:31am
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      May 30, 2022 @ 8:26am
      May 30, 2022
      May 16, 2022 @ 9:03am
      May 16, 2022
      		 In good shape.
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      Recent Ridelog Activity on Trail

      Past Week
      • 18 rides
      • 18 miles avg distance
      6 Months
      • 702 rides
      • 18 miles avg distance
      All
      • 5,826 rides
      • Last: Aug 15, 2022

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      Jun 12, 2022 @ 6:28am
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      Oct 19, 2020 @ 12:41pm
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      Apr 15, 2019 @ 5:03pm
      Apr 15, 2019
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      Jun 12, 2018 @ 6:45pm
      Jun 12, 2018

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