couple of questions about chino hills

[dutch]

Hey guys and gals, a few questions.

I've only ridden chino hills once, and I was wondering A. is there free parking reasonably near by? and B. how easy would it be to put 20+ miles in there. I'm probably just going to go and explore for a few hours, should I pick new trails or just do a few loops?

Thanks!!

[Rockinthecasbah]

20miles easy! look up some route on g ladders, there is parking on the street at elinvar or however you spell it

[DirtRider]

You should also check some prior STR rides.... Brewmaster hosted a Chino Hills ride fromt the chino side to the brea side and back... we parked near his house for FREE... let me spell that again... F R E E.....!@!!!! there were some awesome single tracks over there with some good hills to climb!! that ride i logged over 25 miles if i remember correctly... a lot of the miles were from me humbly hiking my bike up the hills... LOL she got scared of all the hills on that side of the park...i had to calm her down until i got her back on the brea side....LOL

if you start from the Brea carbon canyon side you can park in the neighborhood just before you get into carbon canyon. you can also park on the side of the road just past the trail head on the brea side.

Geoladders will definately get you some trails to link up... i think there are over 60 miles of trails inside CHSP so i'm sure you can eek out 20 or so...

i put 18 miles a ride each time i go out just from starting from my house in brea riding to the trailhead and only going up to 4 corners via Telegraph canyon... you should have NO problemo getting the miles you desire at the difficulty you need....

Rock on!!!

[bighit8]

Originally Posted by Rockinthecasbah

20miles easy! look up some route on g ladders, there is parking on the street at or however you spell it

Ricky,Ricky,Ricky you live right by there.I maybe wrong but I think it is Evinlar.Either way your spelling sucks. You know I am joking! I hope

[Livepe]

You can park on Vesuvius (off of Rose) in Brea. You can easily get 20 miles or more, especially if you head over to the east side of the park (may want to research some of the trails due to the overgrowth after the rain - not maintained). A standard loop that is rideable and will get you about 18 miles - 2200 ft + is Northridge to Sycamore, to Telegraph (four corners), Bovinia, Southridge, Diemener (sp?), back to Telegraph. I am sure you can find the route on Geo - Ladders, but I've explored the entire park using Franko's map.

Teri

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...18711&t=h&z=16

[dubjay]

I park on Rim Crest when I ride Chino Hills. The entrance is in the middle of South Ridge.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=e...,0.040169&z=15

[freekengo]

Originally Posted by dutch

Hey guys and gals, a few questions.

I've only ridden chino hills once, and I was wondering A. is there free parking reasonably near by? and B. how easy would it be to put 20+ miles in there. I'm probably just going to go and explore for a few hours, should I pick new trails or just do a few loops?

Thanks!!

Talk to Mat Gfell over at your Fullerton store and he should be able to give you some directions.

[Rockinthecasbah]

come do some trail work with us you will learn all about the east side

[dutch]

Originally Posted by Rockinthecasbah

come do some trail work with us you will learn all about the east side

I'd love to do some trailwork out there but the only trail days i've seen are on weekends!! I work every weekend!

I guess as a consolation I'll just hit all the rocky lines so you trail maintenance peeps won't have to worry about me widening the trails...

btw thanks everyone else! I figure I'll be there too late to risk the park closing its gates, but I'll have at least three hours of sunlight if I start near enough to 4 o clock. Can't wait to get out there and just push myself until my legs quit on me.

[BrewMaster]

Check out this map (pdf) from the State Parks site.

Chino Hills State Park has over 65 miles of trails, so it is easy to put in 20 miles without even back tracking. From the Brea side, parking is in the houses across the street if you want free.

The only singletracks that are in decent shape to ride are Bovinian Delight, Brush Canyon, and Sycamore. Everything else is overgrown as far as I can tell.

Parking at Rimcrest is free and offers a nice change of scenery. Parking in Chino Hills might be farther for you, but also offers a nice change of scenery and more free parking.

A fun ride that will incorporate some good ST would be Northridge, down Sycamore, up Telegraph to 4 Corners, up Bovinian Delight, and then down Southridge back to Brea. This would be a bout 15 miles or so. If you drop down towards the east side and the ranger station, there are lots of fun trails, but then you have a 2 mile climb back up.

[Zippy]

Word. Check out my GeoLadders dashboard. I mapped a few rides out that way that people seem to enjoy. "Twin Rings" is an OK ride that way, but the East side of the park is better riding (Bane Ridge, East Fence Line) than the West side. Less climbing to get to the fun stuff if you start from Rim Crest; not that far from Brea now that Bastanchury goes through to Fairmont.

[BrewMaster]

Just a word of caution, Bane Ridge and East Fenceline trails are totally over grown right now and not rideable. But, that will hopefully be remedied on July 26th with trail work!

[jasonmason]

Originally Posted by BrewMaster

Parking at Rimcrest is free and offers a nice change of scenery. Parking in Chino Hills might be farther for you, but also offers a nice change of scenery and more free parking.

A fun ride that will incorporate some good ST would be Northridge, down Sycamore, up Telegraph to 4 Corners, up Bovinian Delight, and then down Southridge back to Brea. This would be a bout 15 miles or so. If you drop down towards the east side and the ranger station, there are lots of fun trails, but then you have a 2 mile climb back up.

Sam beat me to it - if you're coming from Irvine, park on the Yorba Linda side off of Rimcrest. Head through the gate and turn left on southridge.

This loop works great for getting in some good sustained climbing up Northridge, and you can head further past Sycamore another few miles on Northridge to get more climbing in and then drop down powerline, which puts you pretty much right at 4 corners. If you really need that 20, turn left and climb up San Juan hill a couple times once you get to the top of bovinian! Or head to the park hq from 4 corners, then come back on southridge - there's plenty of ways to get miles in out there.

[ubermensch]

Originally Posted by BrewMaster

Check out this map (pdf) from the State Parks site.

Thanks, I have been looking for that.

Also, I have to pull out the noob card for this one, but are there actual signs at these trails? From my experience, I seem to always do okay when I'm looking at trail maps at home, then all of that goes out the window when I actually get there.

[jasonmason]

Some have signs. There is a sign at the bottom or northridge, one at the top and bottom of sycamore, and top and bottom of bovinian. Southridge doesn't have any that i've ever seen, same with diemer, fenceline, and san juan hill. The one for raptor is pretty much overgrown, as are the other eastside ones - they're there, but you'll have to look to find them.

Really though, it's a pretty easy park to find your way around in. Take a map your first time and you'll get a feel for it quick. Most of the trails can be seen easily, especially up on the ridges, and you can use Gilman Peak (high point on northridge), San Juan Hill (high point on southridge), and the park hq as landmarks.

[freekengo]

Here's my usual favorite route of Chino hills. Climb North Ridge, Down Sycamore, up Telegraph to 4 corners, down raptor ridge, up sidewinder, down bane ridge, up southridge to telegraph to 4 corners, up bovinian, down south ridge. 20+miles and about 3500' climb. Good solid ride! Unfortunately eastern half of chino is too overgrown to be fun for now. Waiting for the brush abatement party next month!

[BrewMaster]

Originally Posted by jasonmason

Some have signs. There is a sign at the bottom or northridge, one at the top and bottom of sycamore, and top and bottom of bovinian. Southridge doesn't have any that i've ever seen, same with diemer, fenceline, and san juan hill. The one for raptor is pretty much overgrown, as are the other eastside ones - they're there, but you'll have to look to find them.

Southridge, Fenceline, Diemer, and San Juan all have signs, but not at all junctions. They seem to put the signs where you don't really need them, like at major junctions in the road where people already know where they are going. I go by the map and don't even notice the signs all that much.

The last mile or so of Northridge is really soft and sandy. I ran out of curse words on my last climb up there so I started making up new ones. It sucks.

[Chewyeti]

You guys all forget the entrance on the corona side too!
so aside from brea/chino/rimjob entrance... you can park at the green river golfcourse a few miles up the 91 at green river.

from there you can take the nice easy lower aliso road up to four corners, or start with some kinda burly climbing up Skully

[dutch]

so again, thanks all for their input.

I guess i kinda threw it all to the wind as I'd forgotten all of the route suggestions by the time I got to CH.

I ended up doing the following:

Started from Jax in yorba linda (had to pick up a transfer bike to bring it to my shop).
Rode from Jax, along YL blvd, made a left on fairmont, and took that to rim crest.

rode up rim crest to the park entrance, then made a left on southridge (up that grunty little climb).

took a right at the fork and rode southridge back to the main gates, saw a coyote on the way who was just strutting along the fireroad in the opposite direction to me.

I didn't feel like doing a bunch of climbing (after my 4 hour day in LCWP/el moro on tuesday) so I hung a right at what I thought was telegraph road.

Turns out I'd just started up North Ridge, I rode that for a while, thinking every second, this hill has gotta end soon, and then another blind corner and more climbing, blahhh. At one point I thought about turning around and retracing my steps, but the spirit of exploration got me.

By the time I had finally finished climbing along north ridge, I was ready for some ST. I hung a right at the fork and headed down Sycamore, it was a total blast, despite my new wide bars hanging up on some of the overgrowth.

After that I went left at telegraph after finally realizing where I was.

I headed to four corners, finished my half-eaten carrot cake clif bar (best thing I've ever had on a ride, srsly), and started along bovinian. The trail was getting really overgrown, so I used my 28" wide bars and tender forearms to take out some brush (in addition to scratching said forearms a bunch).

after that, I just rode southridge back to the rimcrest entrance, and rolled down the road back to the shop.

It was a real fun ride, and I managed about 22 and a half miles in just over 2:15.
If I had a Garmin I'd brag about how many vertical feet I logged, but I'm too cheap to get one.

Hope that wasn't too boring. CHSP has some sweet trails.