The Geysers (Geysers Road)
Mayacamas Mountains · near Cloverdale / Healdsburg · North Coast
Gravel & Bikepacking
At a glance
- Difficulty
- advanced
- Best season
- Spring & fall (dangerously hot in summer, muddy in winter)
What is here
- Terrain
- mountain
- Amenities
- World's largest geothermal field · Big Mayacamas traverse · Remote backcountry solitude · Wine-country base
- Best for
- A big, remote wine-country backcountry climb
- Features
- Ride through steaming geothermal country · Long Mayacamas climb · Remote and rugged · Healdsburg wine-country base
Worth knowing
- Hazards
- Long remote climb, little water · Extreme summer heat · Rough, loose surface · Geothermal-plant traffic
- Good for a first timer
- No
Gravel & Bikepacking detail
- Ride types
- day-gravel · adventure
- Surface
- rough
- Remoteness
- 3
- Riding
- A long, remote, rough climb over the Mayacamas through the world's largest geothermal field — steam, solitude, and a big backcountry traverse above Healdsburg
- Terrain note
- 600–3,000+ ft over the Mayacamas; rough, exposed, minimal water
- Camping
- No
- Intl tip
- A long, rough, remote climb over the Mayacamas through The Geysers — the world's largest geothermal field (steam plumes and pipelines on the ridges). Big backcountry solitude above the Healdsburg/Cloverdale vineyards. SERIOUS: sustained climb, little water, rough loose surface, brutal summer heat (spring/fall only; muddy in winter). A wild wine-country adventure far from the tasting rooms. For fit, prepared riders.
- Trip lengths
- day
The guide
Geysers Road is a Sonoma gravel rite of passage — a long, rough, remote climb over the Mayacamas Mountains that threads through…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to The Geysers (Geysers Road) — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 38.79, -122.83