Volcanic Tablelands
North of Bishop · near Bishop · Eastern Sierra
Mountain Biking
At a glance
- Skill level
- intermediate
- Trail miles
- Chalk Bluff Rd ~6 mi; a 24-mi tableland loop and miles of interconnecting roads
- Elevation
- ~4,100 ft, minimal relief (a longer loop adds ~1,300 ft)
- Best season
- Fall through spring; summer is brutally hot and exposed
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Mountain Biking detail
- Nickname
- Bishop's Winter Riding
- Ride types
- xc
- Signature trails
- Chalk Bluff Road · The Tableland Loop
- Ebike
- Yes
- Ebike note
- Class 1 e-bikes allowed on the designated BLM roads; stay strictly on existing routes.
- Intl tip
- The Eastern Sierra's best winter-and-shoulder-season ride, when Mammoth is snowed in. Combine with bouldering at the Happy and Sad Boulders right off the route.
The guide
The Volcanic Tablelands are Bishop's cold-weather playground - a vast, open plateau of 760,000-year-old welded tuff north of to…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Volcanic Tablelands — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 37.4198, -118.4098