Raising Bakersfield

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Bakersfield offers wonderful bike paths and has beautiful city streets perfect for an afternoon ride with your family. Click on the links below to view the safest and most scenic areas to enjoy:

Bakersfield Metro Bicycling Map
Courtesy of the City of Bakersfield Traffic Engineering Dept. Adobe Acrobat files.

Lo res version for screen viewing(186K)

Hi res version for printing (508K)

Note: This map shows streets with bike lanes and with marked bike routes, as well as where routes and lanes are planned. Many of the streets marked as planned bike routes or bike lanes are already suitable for bicyclists. And many other streets not highlighted on this map are also suitable for bicycling - and commonly used by bicyclists. We'll have an enhanced map up later this year, showing many of those streets as well.

Meanwhile, here are just a few of the other streets commonly used by bicyclists:

• Olive Drive
• Roberts Lane
• Main Plaza Drive
• Granite Falls Drive
• Belle Terrace
• Real Road
• North Chester Avenue
• Riverlakes Drive
• Alfred Harrell Highway
• District Boulevard
• Pacheco Road (most sections)
• Verdugo Lane (most sections)
• Meacham Road
   

NOTE: Just because a street is marked as a bike route, with a bike lane, or known to be used by bicyclists, does not mean the city, county or South Vall;ey Bicycle Coalition is making any guarantee as to your safety on that street. Your safety will depend on many factors, including your behavior and on the behavior of other road users. All bicyclists ride at their own risk, so choose your route carefully and ride responsibily, obeying all traffic laws, signs and signals, and using good bicycling skills.