Cycling4Fun

Saratoga/ Boulder Creek/Big Basin Loop (clockwise).
Route A: 58 miles with 6,280 feet of climbing. Lunch in Boulder Creek.
Route B: 48.5 miles with 5,211 feet of climbing. Lunch in Boulder Creek.  Return Hwy 9 (no Big Basin), especially if Hwy 262 is closed/under repair/detoured to massive-steep bypass.

“Big Picture” ride: big redwoods, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, big climbs, and big descents.
Directions to the starting point:
>From all directions (280, 101, 680, or 880): Take Highway 17 West.
Right on Highway 9 to Saratoga.
In Saratoga, Highway 9 does a Left turn onto Big Basin Way… Take it.
Right on 4th Street.
After short downhill, public parking on Left and Right… bathrooms & water available.
Right side preferred: (Wildwood Park).
Start /end ride at Park.

Link to MapQuest for your personal directions

Saratoga-Boulder Creek-Big Basin Girlie Map