beginnerbiker4u
09-01-09, 11:52 AM
I plan on riding from Santa Barbara, Ca to Long Beach, Ca. I am wondering what is the fastest route to get there... anyone with information please help.
Southern California - Santa Barbara to Long Beach
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USAZorro
09-01-09, 12:40 PM
Hwy 101 to 405 is, but don't ride your bike there. :D
I would try to stick to the coast as much as possible, but that will likely mean a lot of turns and hitting some major thoroughfares.
I would try to stick to the coast as much as possible, but that will likely mean a lot of turns and hitting some major thoroughfares.
CbadRider
09-01-09, 02:59 PM
Moving to the Southern California regional forum.
Lord Chaos
09-01-09, 03:26 PM
I'm not sure of a bicycle route to Oxnard, but from there take PCH. Get on the beach bike path at Temescal Canyon and ride about 20 miles south to Redondo Beach. From there you can use PCH to go east to Long Beach, or find parallel routes. You could go a little farther south and then head east on Palos Verdes Drive North but it's less direct.
Brian Sorrell
09-01-09, 04:02 PM
Here's roughly the route I took from Santa Barbara to Malibu last week:
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3151355
You do have to get on the 101 for a stretch, but there is a generous bike lane and it's well marked as a cycling route. I imagine that from Malibu you'd just take PCH to Long Beach, but I've not ridden it myself.
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3151355
You do have to get on the 101 for a stretch, but there is a generous bike lane and it's well marked as a cycling route. I imagine that from Malibu you'd just take PCH to Long Beach, but I've not ridden it myself.
beginnerbiker4u
09-01-09, 06:01 PM
how long would this trip take?
reversegear
09-01-09, 10:47 PM
how long would this trip take?
That depends on you...
I ride this area fairly frequently and I consider the route posted above to be pretty good, although, personally I would use Ventura to Hueneme Road to Naval Air Road to Las Posas to PCH to get around the Seabee base.
I would not ride PCH between Malibu and Santa Monica on a weekday, but early in the morning on a weekend it has little traffic. Once you get to Santa Monica hop on the bike path to Redondo Beach. After that you need to decide if you are going to go round Palos Verdes or take PCH to Long Beach. I prefer Palos Verdes.
It is a beautiful route. A few hills through Malibu and Palos Verdes, other than that it is pretty darn flat. Good luck.
That depends on you...
I ride this area fairly frequently and I consider the route posted above to be pretty good, although, personally I would use Ventura to Hueneme Road to Naval Air Road to Las Posas to PCH to get around the Seabee base.
I would not ride PCH between Malibu and Santa Monica on a weekday, but early in the morning on a weekend it has little traffic. Once you get to Santa Monica hop on the bike path to Redondo Beach. After that you need to decide if you are going to go round Palos Verdes or take PCH to Long Beach. I prefer Palos Verdes.
It is a beautiful route. A few hills through Malibu and Palos Verdes, other than that it is pretty darn flat. Good luck.
Jeff Wills
09-02-09, 12:00 AM
I plan on riding from Santa Barbara, Ca to Long Beach, Ca. I am wondering what is the fastest route to get there... anyone with information please help.
Stick to the coast- going inland puts you through L.A. at some point.
You could do worse than ordering Adventure Cycling's Pacific Coast Route Map #5:
http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/pacificcoast.cfm
It covers the California coast from Santa Barbara south. I've ridden all of this, but not in one stretch, and it's been a while (I did Santa Monica to Long Beach in, umm, 1979). Google says this is roughly 120 miles- doable in one day if you're in OK shape.
http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/images/pacific_coast_5.gif
Stick to the coast- going inland puts you through L.A. at some point.
You could do worse than ordering Adventure Cycling's Pacific Coast Route Map #5:
http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/pacificcoast.cfm
It covers the California coast from Santa Barbara south. I've ridden all of this, but not in one stretch, and it's been a while (I did Santa Monica to Long Beach in, umm, 1979). Google says this is roughly 120 miles- doable in one day if you're in OK shape.
http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/images/pacific_coast_5.gif
maxmonster
09-23-09, 12:24 PM
isnt the pch near long beach and around that area really ghetto? me and a few friends were going to take the pch from hb up to sb on a car cruise and people told us that it was super ghetto around that area
umd
09-23-09, 07:13 PM
You can take frontage roads from SB to Carpinteria, then you have to get on the 101 to Ventura. From there you can take the coastal route to Oxnard, through Hueneme, and onto PCH just past Pt Mugu.