Ridge Trail
- 0.9 mi
- round trip
- 479 ft
- climb
- Singletrack
- surface
- Out and back
- route
- Oct–Jun
- best months
Clear at last check
Weather is good · OpenWeather · checked 21 h ago
Ridge Trail is a mountain biking route in Soquel Demonstration State Forest in California, managed by the State Department of Natural Resources. The nearest town is The Willows, about 2.5 miles away. The trail is an out-and-back that covers about 1.8 miles, with a one-way climb of roughly 479 feet from a low point of 1,337 feet to a high of 1,828 feet. It is rated hard. Spring and fall are the most comfortable times to ride. Typical averages from a nearby weather station show May highs around 80°F with only about four wet days, and October highs near 83°F with similar dry weather. That station sits well below the trail, so temperatures on the ridge run cooler. Flow Trail Segment 2 and Flow Trail Segment 3 are each about 0.3 miles away, and Flow Trail Segment 4 is about 0.4 miles away. Soquel Creek, a paddling spot, is about 1.9 miles off.
Local outfitters
- Half Moon Bay Kayak Company44 mi away
Not on Roamze yet. Their page has how to reach them.
- Flow Trail Segment 2Mountain biking0.3 mi
- Flow Trail Segment 3Mountain biking0.3 mi
- Flow Trail Segment 4Mountain biking0.4 mi
- Soquel CreekCanoeing1.9 mi
- Order of the Moose WallRock climbing7.7 mi
- Lower Guadalupe RockRock climbing7.8 mi
- Zayante CreekCanoeing8 mi
- Roadside RockRock climbing8.4 mi
Source: Roamze catalog (indexable pages within 10 miles, PostGIS distance)
Summit Rock Loop TrailMountain biking · ~27 min drivePhoto: Vadim Manuylov, CC BY-SA 3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)- Flow Trail Segment 2Mountain biking · Next door
- Braille TrailMountain biking · Next door
- Ridge TrailMountain biking · ~1 min drive
Goat Rock TrailMountain biking · ~27 min drivePhoto: Vadim Manuylov, CC BY-SA 3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)- Flow Trail Segment 3Mountain biking · Next door
- Ridge TrailMountain biking · ~1 min drive
- Corral RoadMountain biking · ~2 min drive
Saratoga Gap TrailMountain biking · ~28 min drivePhoto: Vadim Manuylov, CC BY-SA 3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)- Flow Trail Segment 4Mountain biking · Next door
Best time to visit Ridge Trail
Best months: October–June. Best months have typical highs of 55–85 °F, lows of 30 °F or warmer (32 °F where the station doesn't record snow), at most one snowy day and no more than 12 wet days.
Jan
65° / 37°
12 wet
Feb
67° / 39°
12 wet
Mar
71° / 40°
10 wet
Apr
75° / 42°
7 wet
May
80° / 46°
4 wet
Jun
85° / 49°
2 wet
Jul
88° / 51°
0 wet
Aug
90° / 51°
1 wet
Sep
89° / 49°
1 wet
Oct
83° / 44°
4 wet
Nov
71° / 40°
8 wet
Dec
64° / 37°
12 wet
Typical high / low (°F) and days with rain or snow, 1991–2020. Measured at Ben Lomond #4, CA, 10.2 mi away at 420 ft. The station sits about 1,400 ft lower than this place, so expect it a little cooler here. Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020.
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