Bike tours in the USA › California

The roads, the scenery, the mild weather, the wine country, the inviting towns with quaint inns and restaurants: it’s no wonder that the California Central Coast region is such a popular bike touring destination.

This is a one day bike tour off the beaten path look at the scenic upper Napa Valley. You’ll cycle over mostly flat, easy terrain and along country lanes to small, family owned wineries that truly represent the Napa Valley.

A perfect winter-training tour. Just a short distance away from the major urban areas of Southern California lies the Anza-Borrego Desert, a great dry basin ringed by high mountains. In the center of this large desert park is Borrego Springs, a “quaint desert resort town with no traffic and clean air”. Wide and empty roads stretch across the valley floor with mountain vistas in every direction. Two desert ecosystems merge in Joshua Tree National Park, an area abundant with diverse flora and fauna. Mild Winter weather, a quiet town, empty biking roads, great lodging and dining: these are the ingredients that make up an ideal trip.

The best way to see the Golden Gate Bridge! Enjoy spectacular views as you cross this amazing bridge by bicycle to Sausalito. The guided tour included all-day bike rental, so riders can explore more on their own after the the tour ends.

Cycle the Dry Creek and Alexander Valley along tranquil paved back roads, through golden hills, fields of grape vines and majestic olive trees to family owned wineries for one of the best cycling day trips in the country.

This mountain bike tour of Lake Tahoe is talked about as one of the “Fifty Best Trips on the Planet”. You glide through the forests and along the hidden lakes around Lake Tahoe. Peak climbs can be tough, but the phenomenal views make the effort well worthwhile.

Leaving the tourist spots behind, we mountain bike into the surprising backcountry of Death Valley. Ride along ancient mining tracks and ghost towns and cycle seldom-traveled dirt roads into the backside of Red Rock Canyon. Finally, cycling the mustang trails will complete your appreciation for the untamed Spirit of the Mojave!

Get acquainted with Northern California’s Wine Country and the Pacific Coast on our six-stage tour that even the pros would envy. We’ll expose you to valleys of world- famous vineyards‍‍‍, forests of massive redwoods, perfect pastoral landscapes and the captivating California Coast. We spend the entire week in Sonoma, the neighboring county just to the west of Napa Valley. Sonoma’s roads are exceptional for cycling accommodating a range of abilities. Our tour has been designed to offer a
comprehensive cycling experience within California’s celebrated Wine Country.

This easy bike ride will take in all the highlights of Downtown L.A. Leaving from Grand Central Market, L.A.’s 100 year old food hall, it is a perfect place to enjoy lunch and a beer after the ride. We will see Olvera Street, Angel’s Flight, Chinatown, Grand Park, Grand Avenue museums and performing arts center, Broadway theater district and all the historic core DTLA has to offer.

Our trip offers a little bit of everything on our scenic ride in the surrounding area of Santa Cruz, California.
Many routes are above 7,000 feet, and peak climbs require healthy lungs, but the phenomenal singletrack riding coupled with remarkable scenery make the effort well worthwhile.

The best way to see the Golden Gate Bridge! Enjoy spectacular views as you cross this amazing bridge by bicycle to Sausalito. The guided tour included all-day bike rental, so riders can explore more on their own after the the tour ends.

Our Palm Springs and Joshua Tree National Park guided biking and hiking tours feature distinctive accommodations for three nights in Palm Springs. Summer rains portend glorious wildflower blooms in late fall while the combination of select accommodations and breathtakingly diverse scenery form the ideal framework for this exciting and unique California cycling trip.

Explore two desert regions for the price of one on this tour through forty thousand acres of raw beauty and red Aztec sandstone. Begin with a spectacular loop through Lake Mead National Recreation Area to Hoover Dam. Explore the Great Basin’s Valley of Fire – Nevada’s oldest state park, dotted with petrified trees and 2000- year- old petroglyphs. Then head to Mojave Desert’s Death Valley National Park – the country’s largest National Park- for four more days of riding through Southwest wonders. Painted badlands, eerie landscapes and Old West history make for an unforgettable journey!

Explore the quaint neighborhoods of San Francisco with this scenic 4 hour guided electric bike tour. Starting from Ghirardelli Square, the tour will ride past Hayes Valley, Alamo Square, Golden Gate Park, Haight-Ashbury, the Mission and more!

Standing taller than a football field is long, the ancient redwoods (sequoia sempervirens) of the northern California can live 2000+years. Ride and hike through three different reserves guarded by these amazing sentinels, including the world largest remaining old-growth forest. Explore coastal gold-rush provision towns and Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge called the Lost Coast.

Created for stronger cyclists, this ‘heftier’ version of the Crater Lake tour crosses the Coast Range and sails down the knobby headlands of Oregon’s Wild Rivers Coast Scenic Bikeway along the craggy southern seaboard – then turns inland again to follow the Wild and Scenic Rogue River. The showstopper of the week, though, is the ride around one of the Seven Wonders of Oregon: spectacular Crater Lake – which Bicycling Magazine calls “a scenic road that will leave you breathless.” We time this tour to take part in the Ride the Rim Oregon event (entry fee included) so you have the opportunity to ride around Crater Lake without cars!

Ride the entire Big Sur Coastline from Carmel-by the Sea to San Luis Obispo on this Intermediate level tour. We’ve been waiting for years for Highway One to reopen so we could ride here again! From Pebble Beach to Hearst Castle view crashing surf, elephant seals and the southern-most redwood forest. South of Cambria, pedal through famous coastal communities like Morro Bay and Pismo Beach. Inland, ride through some of “golden”California’s finest terrain: wide valleys of vineyards flanked by rolling hilsides covered in scattered groves of live (evergreen) oak. Explore Edna Valley, producer of premium wines. And host to a diverse array of charming wineries.