Redwood Parks Bike Routes
Redwood National & State Parks (bike-legal roads) · near Orick · North Coast
Mountain Biking
At a glance
- Skill level
- intermediate
- Trail miles
- Tens of miles of bike-legal gravel routes (not singletrack)
- Elevation
- Holter Ridge climb ~3,000 ft; others rolling
- Best season
- May-October (winter wet and muddy)
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- No
Mountain Biking detail
- Nickname
- Riding Among the Giants
- Ride types
- xc
- Signature trails
- Lost Man Creek / Holter Ridge · Ossagon / Coastal Trail Loop · Little Bald Hills Trail
- Ebike
- No
- Ebike note
- E-bikes are allowed on a few named routes (Lost Man/Holter, Streelow, Davison) and banned on others (Ossagon, Little Bald Hills) - confirm per route with the NPS.
- Intl tip
- Bikes are banned on almost all Redwood park singletrack - what's open is scenic gravel and old logging roads, not technical MTB. The Lost Man Creek/Holter Ridge climb is the big one; the Ossagon loop reaches the coast. Confirm each route's bike and e-bike legality with the NPS first.
The guide
Riding a bike among the tallest trees on Earth is possible - but only on the right routes. The overwhelming majority of Redwood…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Redwood Parks Bike Routes — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 41.3, -124.02