Start Time & Location
Unless otherwise noted, ride departs at 7:30 AM from the Long Beach Marina parking lot just behind the Sea Port Marina Hotel off of Westminster Ave./2nd St. and PCH. Click here for a map.

Overview
Distance: Approx. 75 miles
Topography: Flat to Whittier. Once in Whittier, it is hilly with some steep sustained climbs.

Route Info

• L.B. Marina to 2nd St.
• 2nd. Street east (turns to Westminster Blvd.) to Studebaker (L).
• Studebaker to Wardlow (L).
• Wardlow to Bloomfield (L).
• Bloomfield to Lincoln (L).
• Lincoln to Bloomfield (R).
• Bloomfield to 183rd (R).
• 183rd to Walker (L).
• Walker to Artesia (R).
• Artesia to Valley View (L).
• Valley View to Leffingwell (R).
• Leffingwell to Colima (L).
• Colima to Fullerton Rd (R).
• Fullerton Rd to Old Fullerton Rd. (R).
• Old Fullerton Rd to East Rd (R).
• East Rd to Hacienda Blvd. (R).
• Hacienda Blvd. to Tetley St. (L).
• Tetley St. to Las Lomitas Dr. (L).
• Las Lomitas Dr. to Turnbull Canyon (L).
• Turnbull Canyon to Painter Av. (L).
• Painter Av. To Mar Vista St. (L).
• Mar Vista St. to Colima (R).
• Colima to Leffingwell (R).
• Leffingwell to Valley View (L).
• Valley View to Lampson (R).
• Lampson to Seal Beach Blvd (L).
• Seal Beach Blvd. to Westminster (R).
• Westminster to the L.B. Marina.

Info by Frank Said
Updated 16 October 2003

Start Time & Location
Unless otherwise noted, ride departs at 7:30 AM from the Long Beach Marina parking lot just behind the Sea Port Marina Hotel off of Westminster Ave./2nd St. and PCH. Click here for a map.

Overview
Distance: Approx. 70 miles
Topography: Flat to Newport, then rolling hills to Dana Pt.

Start Time & Location
Unless otherwise noted, ride departs at 7:30 AM from the Long Beach Marina parking lot just behind the Sea Port Marina Hotel off of Westminster Ave./2nd St. and PCH.

Overview
Distance: Approx. 55 miles
Topography: Moderate and sustained climbs

PCH South to Bayside Dr (R)
Bayside Dr. to Marguerite (L)
Marguerite to San Joaquin Hills (R)
San Joaquin Hills to Spy Glass Hill (L)
Spy Glass Hill to San Miguel Dr (R)
San Miguel Dr. to Ford Rd (R)
Ford Rd turns into Bonita Cyn
Bonita Cyn to Sunnyhill (L)
Sunnyhill to Turtle Rock (R)
Turtle Rock back to Sunnyhill (L)
Sunnyhill to Bonita Cyn (R)
Bonita Cyn to Newport Coast (L)
Newport Coast to San Joaquin Hills (R)
San Joaquin to PCH
PCH North back home

Updated June 15th 2011

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Unless otherwise noted, ride departs at 7:30 AM from the Long Beach Marina parking lot just behind the Sea Port Marina Hotel off of Westminster Ave./2nd St. and PCH.

Overview
Distance: Approx. 60 miles
Topography: Fairly flat

Route Info
Marina to PCH
PCH to Laguna Canyon Rd
Laguna Canyon Rd (N) to Quail Hills Rd
Quail Hills Rd to Alton
Alton to University
University to Jamboree
Jamboree to PCH
PCH to the Marina

Unless otherwise noted, ride departs at 7:30 AM from the Long Beach Marina parking lot just behind the Sea Port Marina Hotel off of Westminster Ave./2nd St. and PCH. Click here for a map.

Overview
Estimated Distance: 65 miles
Topography: Hilly

Marina Dr to 2nd St (L)
2nd St turns to Broadway
Broadway to Alamitos (R)
Alamitos to 7th St (L)
7th St to Pacific Ave (R)
Pacific Ave to Anaheim St (L)
Anaheim St to Palos Verdes North (L)
PV North to PV East (L)
PV East to Crest (R)
Crest to end of road and turn around
Crest to PV East (R)
PV East to PV South (R)
PV South turns to PV North
PV North to Via Coronel (R)
Via Coronel to Granvia Altamira (L)
Granvia Altamira to Via Del Monte (L)
Via Del Monte to Via Campesina (L)
Via Campesina to PV North (R)
PV North to Anaheim St (R)
Anaheim St to Pacific Ave (R)
Pacific Ave to 7th St (L)
7th St to Alamitos (R)
Alamitos to Broadway (L)
Broadway to 2nd St
End at Polly’s Coffee

Easy ride up Newport Coast and back to Marina.

Start Time & Location
Starts in Belmont Shore at Bay Shore Ave & 2nd Street at 7:55 AM. The ride picks up a large group of riders as it goes by the Long Beach/Alamitos Bay Marina and turns south from 2nd Street onto PCH at around 8:00 AM.

The Marina is a good place to park and catch the ride since there is ample parking and it’s where many of the people who are doing the ride start from. Click here for a map by Yahoo. See the end of this page for detailed route info.

2008 New Year's Day Ride

Like the grunions that hurl themselves onto the sand or the swallows that return to Capistrano, hundres of bicyclists rose before dawn New Year’s Day and found themselves pedaling wildly down PCH.

It happens every year. Some cyclists refer to it as the New Year’s Day Ride. Others call it The PCH Ride.

No one seems to know who started it, or why, or when. There is no organizer. Nor is there an official starting time or location.
But the ride has been drawing cyclists from all over Southern California and beyond for at least 10 years, veterans say.
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The ride began Monday with a few dozen people pulling into a foggy parking lot around 7 a.m. at the corner of PCH and Second Street in Long Beach, a couple of miles north of Seal Beach.

At 7:45, as though they had gotten some silent message from the cycling gods, people started mounting their bikes and pedaling south.

Then things got interesting. Clusters of cyclists, many in racing gear, waited on street corners all along PCH. When they spotted the pack approaching, someone would shout, “Here they come!” and seconds later they were sucked into the speeding swarm.
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It’s a progressive ride that swells as it goes, and on this morning it picked up about 400 cyclists, eventually swallowing the entire southbound side of [PCH] upon entering Corona del Mar.
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Each year it’s the same, they say. The ride starts out sociably, but picks up speed around Huntington Beach, getting faster and faster. The pack is tight, and if wheels connect, someone’s going down.
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At Dana Point, the pack split up. Some doubled back on PCH. A more ambitious group turned inland on the riverbed trail and up into the hills. The long way wound up being a five-hour, 100-mile trek.

Start Time & Location
Unless otherwise noted, ride departs at 7:30 AM from the Long Beach Marina parking lot just behind the Sea Port Marina Hotel off of Westminster Ave./2nd St. and PCH.

Overview
Distance: Approx. 55 miles
Alternate (Orca) Route Distance: Approx. 45 miles.
Topography: One major climb up Turnbull

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