Name: Wine and Waves 400k (ACP Brevet / Route #1008)
Ride Start:Saturday, April 17 at 0600
Ride End: Sunday, April 18 at 0900
Time Limit: 27 hours
Cost: $25.00
Registration: closes Thursday, April 15 at midnight
Start Location: New Calle Joaquin Park & Ride Lot between Taco Temple and Hampton Inn
Description: The San Luis Obispo Wine & Waves 400K begins and ends in San Luis Obispo. This ride shares most of the first 300k with the Wine Country 300K, and the riders will begin together. You must decide which route you will ride before the ride. RUSA rules forbid changing routes once you start.
The 400K route crosses town and climbs over Cuesta Grade on the Hwy 101 shoulder, climbing 1200 feet in about 3 miles. Exit on the other side for a pleasant ride up El Camino Real through Santa Margarita and Atascadero, before going out to rural Templeton Rd, passing horse ranches and wineries. Pass through Templeton and Paso Robles on the way to the first control in San Miguel, a good place for early lunch. Then, head over to Paso Robles west side, where the Far Out wineries are located up in hill country. Beautiful, rolling hills for about 25 miles finally lead out to Hwy 46, where you climb over the coast range to Cambria. Then a quick but windy trip up to Ragged Point for the waves part of the ride, and straight back to San Luis Obispo via Hwy 1. Now you have 174 miles done we are back at the start location for possible resuplly before finishing with a loop down Hwy 1 to Guadalupe, and then Hwy 166 into Santa Maria, to the all night 7-11. Return via Bull Canyon, Thompson and Los Berros to Arroyo Grande, then up through the countryside to San Luis Obispo and the finish.
There will be the chance to stop by the start location to resupply at mile 174 mile. Reservations are recommended in this tourist town, you can usually cancel. It’s a beautiful ride, with about 10,900 vertical feet, mostly in the first 100 miles. Garmin files can be downloaded from the map link.
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