Carnegie SVRA
Tracy (eastern Alameda / San Joaquin counties) · near Tracy / Livermore · SF Bay Area
Off-Road
At a glance
- Skill level
- intermediate
- Size
- 1,300+ acres · 80+ miles of trails · 2-acre 4x4 play area with obstacles
- Best season
- October–May · Hot and dry in summer · Green hills in winter/spring
Permits and booking
- Permit
- State Vehicular Recreation Area (California State Parks). Day-use fee. Green Sticker or street-legal registration required. Helmets and spark arrestors required. Primarily a moto/ATV park with a dedicated 4x4 area.
What is here
- Terrain
- mountain-4x4 · desert-wash
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Off-Road detail
- Nickname
- The Bay Area's Motorcycle Park
- Vehicles
- dirt-bike · atv-utv · 4x4-jeep
- Signature routes
- The motorcycle & ATV trails · The 4x4 play area
- Intl tip
- Carnegie is off I-580 near Tracy, at the Altamont Pass — an hour from San Jose or Oakland. It's the most convenient dirt-bike and ATV park for the Bay Area. Combine with a Central Valley or Gold Country trip; Hollister Hills SVRA (this guide) is the other major Bay-adjacent OHV park to the south.
The guide
Carnegie is the Bay Area's classic OHV park — 1,300+ acres of rolling hills and steep canyons in the Altamont range east of the…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Carnegie SVRA — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 37.618, -121.479