Kings Mountain Road – Kings Mountain Road loop from Woodside

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Kings Mountain Road – Kings Mountain Road loop from Woodside

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(4549)

7,937

riders

Kings Mountain Road – Kings Mountain Road loop from Woodside

01:29

18.4km

520m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: October 1, 2026

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Your route passes through protected areas

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Huddart County Park

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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1.88 km

Woodside Store (Historic Site)

Highlight • Historical Site

Trails looping around and through the open air pioneer settlement museum. Even if inside displays should be closed it's interesting and some buildings have windows to peek through

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1.94 km

Old Woodside Store Museum

Highlight • Historical Site

Once upon a time this was the only general store in this area, serving not only as a general-purpose retailer but also the post office, bank, and informal dentist's office. Nowadays it's a museum, staffed by docents ready to offer drop-in history lessons.

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8.86 km

Kings Mountain Road

Highlight • Cycleway

An awesome descent or ascent following the pretty, tree lined mountain road. There aren't many cars, but it's not a wide road so do watch out and enjoy the road rather than race it.

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8.98 km

Kings Mountain Road

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

Plenty of hairpins so watch your speed on the downhill. Overall it's less trafficked near the top than it is near the bottom, as you might expect.

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9.42 km

Skyline Blvd - Tunitas Creek/Kings Mountain Rd intersection

Highlight • Mountain Pass

One of the saddles across Skyline Ridge, where the paved Tunitas Road drops west to Hwy 1 along the Pacific Coast, and Kings Mountain Rd drops East toward Silicon Valley

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9.84 km

Kings Mountain Road

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

Kings Mountain Road arrives about one mile into the descent portion of your loop. This is a narrow and very twisty road that descends for a little over four miles without a break. The overall average grade of this descent is about -7.5%. The first three quarters of the descent (before the entrance of Huddart Park) is a two-lane road divided by a dash yellow line down the middle, where I'd qualify the lane widths as "fair", though there are no marked shoulders. The last quarter of the descent is divided by double yellow solid lines and features lines marking the outer edges of the lanes, but the shoulder space outside those lines (if any) hardly ever exceeds a foot in width. The pavement is quite good and is almost never broken. The descent is fast and exhilarating, with almost all of it taking place under moderate tree cover. While car traffic on this road is very light, it's not non-existent. Make sure you keep that as well as the popularity of this road with cyclists in mind as you decide which speed you should maintain through this descent.

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