Name: Pines to Palms Highway Climb
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Location: Palm Desert, Riverside County, California, United States

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Paul_C

May 13, 2025

The Pines to Palms Highway (Highway 74) climb from Palm Desert is a dramatic and challenging road biking ascent, taking you from the desert floor into the mountains on a state highway. Starting around 1,100 feet near Palm Desert, you'll climb approximately 10 miles, gaining about 2,900 feet to reach the area just past the vista point around 4,000 feet, with a sustained average gradient around 5.5%. This climb is famous for its sweeping switchbacks offering stunning, expansive views of the Coachella Valley below and the surrounding desert landscape as the vegetation changes from sparse desert growth to more high-desert chaparral and pinyon pines around the vista point.

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Distance 22.4 km

Uphill 1,180 m

Downhill 90 m

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Location: Palm Desert, Riverside County, California, United States

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