Are the gravel and dirt roads in California dry and open today? Live conditions for the quiet county and forest roads a gravel or drop-bar bike rides, with melt-out and the 10-day outlook, refreshed every morning from real soil, snowpack, and weather data.
Across California, about 2,268 of 2,268 tracked gravel and dirt roads are reading dry today. Pick a region for the full road list, melt-out, and forecast.
Today the California regions with the most gravel and dirt roads reading dry are Auburn & Folsom, Big Bear & the San Bernardinos and Downieville & the Lost Sierra. This page re-ranks every region by live conditions each morning, so the top of the list is your best bet for dry roads right now. Open a region for its road-by-road read and forest-road melt-out.
The valley and desert roads come into gravel season first; the high forest roads and passes hold snow into spring. Each California gravel region page tracks its forest-road snow coverage and an estimated open date daily through the melt, so you can time the high country instead of guessing.
From real public data only: weather from Open-Meteo, terrain from OpenStreetMap, soil from USDA SSURGO, and snowpack from NRCS SNOTEL. Graded gravel drains faster than singletrack, so we read the roads separately from the mountain-bike trails. There are no invented numbers, and conditions are informational only.