Motorcycle Ride Planner · United States

Cherokee Road — Gridley to Chico

United States · measured from OpenStreetMap geometry

Cherokee Road runs 11.1 miles between Gridley and Chico. We counted 556 corners along it, which works out at 50.3 a mile — corner after corner with no let-up. It runs past mountain peaks, a waterfall, cliffs and open water. That puts it in the busiest tenth of every road we have measured in the United States, where the median is 19.4 a mile.

Ridden together with Cherokee Road and Larkin Road it makes about 18 more miles of the same kind of road.

Plan a ride on it

Worth stopping for

• 0.1 miwaterfallHollow Falls
• 0.3 miwaterfallLittle Hollow Falls
• 0.7 miwaterfallRavine Falls
• 0.7 miwaterfallRavine Twin Falls
• 1.1 miwaterfallLittle Phantom Falls
• 1.1 miviewpointPhantoms View
• 1.2 mihistoricBeatson Corral
• 1.3 miwaterfallLower Ravine Falls
• 1.7 miwaterfallBeatson Falls
• 2.0 miwaterfallCrevice Falls

Roads near here

• Cherokee Road0 mi away · 359 corners
• Larkin Road4 mi away · 132 corners
• Larkin Road5 mi away · 89 corners
• CA 1627 mi away · 270 corners
• CA 1627 mi away · 381 corners
• Durham-Pentz Road8 mi away · 85 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.