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Limekiln State Park – Kirk Creek 🏕️ Campground loop from Limekiln State Park

Limekiln State Park – Kirk Creek 🏕️ Campground loop from Limekiln State Park

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3.1

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Limekiln State Park – Kirk Creek 🏕️ Campground loop from Limekiln State Park

02:22

29.9km

940m

Road cycling

Hard road ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: March 17, 2026

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After 14.9 km for 198 m

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269 m

Limekiln State Park

Highlight • Natural Monument

Beautiful beach and campground, some sites with beach view through the columns of a tall bridge, most are under tall trees in canyon. Good drinking water, showers; ranger staffed entrance booth.

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3.63 km

Nacimiento-Fergusson Rd ⛰️ Plaskett Ridge summit down to Hwy 1

Highlight (Segment) • Mountain Pass

Downhill cruising at its best: From the highest point of this road, the narrow but sparsely traveled route with breathtaking ocean views that change from turn to turn, through stands …

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14.9 km

Plaskett Ridge

Highlight • Trail

Plaskett Ridge Rd is a gravel forest road that goes roughly North-South along the highest ridge parallel to the Big Sur Coast some 2000 ft (850m) below. It crosses Nacimiento-Fergusson …

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14.9 km

This narrow dirt road with very little traffic apart from the occasonal mountain bike or dirt atv follows the ridge along the western edge of the Ventana Wilderness, connecting with many smaller trails.

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15.0 km

Central Coast /Cone Peak Ridge Rd Trailhead

Highlight • Trail

From Nacimiento Fergusson Rd there are narrow dirt roads going both north and south along the ridge with spectacular view both into the Ventana Wilderness to the east and the coast of Big Sur to the West.

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17.9 km

Mill Creek Canyon

Highlight • Canyon

Nacimiento-Fergusson Rd drops 2000 feet down the steep Mill Creek canyon from Plaskett Ridge to Hwy 1 without any roadside safety barriers, offering dramatic views from its hundreds of switch-backs.

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24.3 km

Spectacular Big Sur coast views 🌊 Nacimiento-Fergusson Rd

Highlight • Viewpoint

Nacimiento-Fergusson Rd climbs almost 3000 feet up the steep Mill Creek canyon from Hwy 1, but already after the first few switchbacks it starts offering dramatic views of the Big Sur coast

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26.5 km

Kirk Creek 🏕️ Campground

Highlight • Rest Area

Great views right on the coast, but expensive ($35 in 2017, Bikers 🚴 just $5😀) and no water. Nearest water at Limekiln State Park 3 miles north.

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29.9 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

22.6 km

6.65 km

497 m

186 m

Surfaces

22.7 km

6.55 km

497 m

186 m

< 100 m

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Highest point (840 m)

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Limekiln State Park – Kirk Creek 🏕️ Campground loop from Limekiln State Park

Limekiln State Park

Nacimiento-Fergusson Rd ⛰️ Plaskett Ridge summit down to Hwy 1

Plaskett Ridge

Plasket Ridge Road

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