Ride Start: Deerfield Park

(Route Slip – SAT07)
Food stop: Knowlwoods - Irvine, Sand Canyon & Burt

Short: 17 miles
 (Map and Elevation)
Medium: 30 miles, flat – Irvine Bl, Turtle Rock
 (Map and Elevation)
Long: 41 miles, 1450’ Climb – Irvine Bl, Jeronimo, Turtle Rock
 (Map and Elevation)
Long Plus: 51 miles, - to Ocean side & back on MetroLink: see below!

SPECIAL Coastal Ride: 50.9 miles
(also starts at 8:00 from Deerfield) -
Beat the Heat! Bike to Oceanside - lunch at Swami’s, then train back on MetroLink to the Tustin MetroLink Station then ride back to Deerfield…

(Route slip - Bike to Oceanside)

(Map and Elevation) to Swam'i’s for lunch: 49.2 miles
(Map and Elevation) to Oceanside Station: 0.4 mile
(Map and Elevation) Tustin Station back to start: 1.2 mile

Cheater option: Ride to Irvine Station, take 857 Train at 8:42 to San Juan Capistrano or San Clemente & get ahead of the pack for San Clemente, San Onofre & Camp Pendleton … your $10 all day pass will get you round trip back to Tustin…$3.88 to San Clemente + 5.75 back to Irvine if 65 or over…

Our route uses the FREEWAY SHOULDER from Las Pulgas to Oceanside - It’s legal, shorter, flatter & safer than the Base Route.
If you want to ride on base through Camp Pendleton you need to get a Bike Pass in advance.
Bring cash for lunch & $10 Day Pass or $5.75 Seniors 65+ for train ticket north) 

Return options:
Train 665 @ 1:24 gets to Tustin at 2:23
Train 858 @ 2:51 gets to Tustin at 3:55
Train 860 @ 4:28 gets to Tustin at 5:24
Train 667 @ 5:36 gets to Tustin at 6:35 <LAST TRAIN>

Bonus Scenery: David Marino alerted us: THIS is the Saturday when bikers (the OTHER kind) ‘moon’ the train outside a bar just north of Laguna Niguel / Mission Viejo station; look out the inland side windows as we pass! They “Moon the AmTrak” @ 3:10 but might be practicing on our MetroLink at about 2:00…