Everitt Memorial Highway (Mount Shasta)
Mount Shasta City · near Mount Shasta · Shasta Cascade
Road Cycling
At a glance
- Distance
- long
- Best season
- July-October (upper road snow-gated the rest of the year)
What is here
- Scenery
- mountain
- Amenities
- Pristine low-traffic pavement · Bunny Flat & Old Ski Bowl trailheads · Panoramic Cascade views · Mt Shasta City services at the base
- Best for
- A bucket-list Cascade mountain climb on quiet pavement
- Features
- Climbs the flank of Mount Shasta itself · Near-empty road most days · Tops out ~7,850 ft at the Old Ski Bowl · Steady, non-brutal grade
Worth knowing
- Hazards
- High altitude - weather changes fast, cold/wind up top · Upper ~2 mi past Bunny Flat gate is rough but bike-legal · Long fast descent - check brakes · No water above town
- Beginner friendly
- No
Road Cycling detail
- Nickname
- The Mountain Climb
- Ride types
- climb
- Road
- quiet
- Climbing
- 5
- Ride notes
- The region's signature road climb - a quiet, beautifully paved ascent straight up the flank of 14,179-foot Mount Shasta from town to the Old Ski Bowl at nearly 7,900 feet, with expanding views over the Cascades the whole way
- Stats note
- ~14.2 mi one-way, ~4,150 ft gain to ~7,850 ft, avg ~5.6% - a sustained, steady grade
- Intl tip
- Go July-October when the upper road is clear, carry all your water (none above town), and pack a wind layer for the cold, fast descent from nearly 8,000 feet. The final ~2 miles past Bunny Flat are rough but rideable.
The guide
Everitt Memorial Highway is the marquee road climb of the volcanic north - a quiet, smoothly paved highway that leaves Mount Sh…
In the Guidebook
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Getting there
- Coordinates
- 41.31, -122.312