This is one of the best San Diego motorcycle rides. If you love twisty mountain roads, you really have to ride out to Borrego Springs! Plus, there are great desert metal sculptures all over Borrego. These unique sculptures make for great photo spots. Best of all is a gigantic dragon, that is so long it stretches over the highway.
This is part one of two videos about our motorcycle ride to Borrego Springs California. Borrego Springs is completely surrounded by Anza-Borrego State Park, the largest of California’s State Parks.
The best part of this motorcycle ride is when you turn off of San Felipe a road and onto Montezuma Valley Road this is about 22 miles from that turn off down to Borrego Springs. The best part of the road, at least as far as motorcycles are concerned is the last 10 miles. This is right after your ride through Ranchita and then you start down the long grade to Borrego Springs.
Best San Diego Motorcycle Ride
This part of the road drops down about 3,000 feet in elevation and runs right along the side of a mountain with great views over the valley floor and lots of turns and twists in the road. Many motorcycle riders in San Diego consider this part of the road one of the best motorcycle rides in San Diego.
Montezuma Valley road
In this video I’m riding my 2006 American Ironhorse Texas Chopper and with a 9 foot long bike, big-ass rear tire, radical 42-degree rake (38-degree frame rake plus 4-degree raked triple-trees), your upper arms really get a workout after a twisty road like this. This was a great ride with low 80° temperatures in Borrego. . . What more can you ask for for late October?
Probably, the best time for this ride is from mid-October through mid April. Sure, you can go anytime, but it does get really hot out in Borrego, actually it is probably one of the hottest areas because of its low elevation and desert environment.
Borrego Springs California
When you get to Borrego Springs this quite a few local restaurants, gas stations and probably best of all, scattered throughout the desert are metal sculptures. Most of the metal sculptures are of horses and dinosaurs. These sculptures make for great backdrops for photos with your bike.
The best sculpture of all is a Dragon that’s made to look like it goes in and out of the sand and it really does stretch quite a long way spanning two sides of the road that you use to get out to it. This one sculpture is a must stop!
If you haven’t already, please mark this website is one of your favorites and be sure to check back often. Part two of this video will show you the actual riding down on the last 10 miles of Montezuma Valley Road and also our return trip to San Diego where we decided to leave her a go going out through Scissors Crossing and then up the Banner Grade, (which itself is considered one of the top five motorcycle roads in San Diego) turning left just before the town of Julian and heading out to the Sunrise Hwy., Pine Valley and then Highway Eight west, to San Diego.
