Trinity Lake & Highway 3
Trinity Center / Weaverville (Trinity County) · near Weaverville · Shasta Cascade
Road Cycling
At a glance
- Distance
- long
- Best season
- May-October
What is here
- Scenery
- mountain
- Amenities
- Trinity Center & Weaverville services · Trinity Lake & Alps scenery · Scott Mountain Summit climb · Mellow Lewiston loop option
- Best for
- Remote, empty-road riding in the Trinity Alps
- Features
- Among the quietest paved roads in California · Scott Mountain Summit (~5,400 ft) · Trinity Alps & lake scenery · Historic Weaverville base
Worth knowing
- Hazards
- Very remote - few or no services for long stretches · Limited cell coverage · Logging trucks on some sections · Come self-sufficient
- Beginner friendly
- No
Road Cycling detail
- Nickname
- The Quietest Miles
- Ride types
- pass · loop
- Road
- quiet
- Climbing
- 4
- Ride notes
- The most remote and lightly trafficked road riding in the region - Highway 3 along Trinity Lake and up over Scott Mountain Summit, deep in the forested Trinity Alps country with almost no cars
- Stats note
- Signature Trinity Center to Callahan over Scott Mountain Summit (~5,400 ft); mellower Lewiston loops near Weaverville
- Intl tip
- Come fully self-sufficient - services and cell coverage are sparse out here. The Trinity Center-to-Callahan run over Scott Mountain Summit is the signature; the Lewiston loops near Weaverville are the mellower option. Watch for logging trucks.
The guide
If you want empty roads, the Trinity Alps deliver the quietest paved riding in the region - Highway 3 traces the shore of Trini…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Trinity Lake & Highway 3 — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 40.985, -122.7