Motorcycle Ride Planner · United States

CA 79 — Descanso to Julian

United States · measured from OpenStreetMap geometry

CA 79 runs 22.5 miles between Descanso and Julian. We counted 762 corners along it, which works out at 33.9 a mile — consistently twisty. It runs past mountain peaks, a nature reserve, a river and open water. That is busier than two thirds of the roads we have measured in the United States, where the median is 19.4 a mile.

Ridden together with US 80 Hist and CA 79 it makes about 18 more miles of the same kind of road.

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Worth stopping for

• 0.3 miattractionEagle Mine
• 1.5 miattractionMoteros
• 1.8 miattractionWarlock Mine
• 2.0 miviewpointCharles Powell Memorial Bench
• 2.1 miattractionVolcan Mountain Air Beacon
• 2.2 miviewpointGlen S. Wyatt Memorial Viewpoint
• 2.2 miviewpointVista Point
• 2.5 miviewpointInspiration Point
• 2.7 miattractionAirplane Monument

Roads near here

• US 80 Hist2 mi away · 103 corners
• CA 797 mi away · 487 corners
• CR S17 mi away · 567 corners
• CR S17 mi away · 333 corners
• Barrett Lake Road10 mi away · 302 corners
• Lyons Valley Road11 mi away · 416 corners

How we measured it

Corner counts come from the road's own geometry in OpenStreetMap, not from ratings or votes. Every bend above a threshold of curvature is counted once, so two roads can be compared directly. Nothing here is crowdsourced and nobody paid to appear.