Nevada City Ride.

There are two 86-mile (6 hours) routes to Nevada City.

Both options leave from One Mile at 6:00am, head past Butte College,
past Cherokee Rd. (24.5 miles) through Oroville and east on Hwy
162/Olive Hwy to the Lakeside Market (7 miles) on the southwest corner
of Olive Hwy and Miners Ranch Rd.

The "high/hilly" route heads straight past Miners Ranch Rd. for ¼ mile
on Hwy 162, heads right onto Old Olive Hwy (1 mile), heads right onto
Forbestown Rd. (3.3 miles), heads right onto Black Bart Rd. (3.6
miles), heads right onto Forbestown Rd. (6.3 miles), through
Forbestown (store,) straight onto the Challenge Cut-Off Rd. (2.7
miles), left onto La Porte Rd. (1.5 miles,) through Challenge (store)
and shortly right onto Oregon Hill Rd. (11.3 miles,) and then turn
left onto Marysville Rd., and you are at Bullards Bar (2.5 miles).
About 10 miles down Oregon Hill Rd. you can turn left onto Road 169
(3.6 miles) – and head through the parking lot at the dam and then
over the dam.

The "low/flat" route turns right onto Miners Ranch Rd. (2.5 miles),
left onto Oroville-Bangor Hwy (6.6 miles), through Bangor (store) and
onto Los Verjeles Rd. (5 miles), left onto Lome Rica Rd. (1.4 miles),
left onto Marysville Rd. (store) (2.6 miles,) right onto Marysville
Rd. (store) through Oregon House and Dobbins and Bullards Bar (15
miles) is next.

Both options cross over the Bullards Bar Dam and about 1.5 miles up
the hill turn right onto Moonshine Rd. (3.9 miles,) head right onto
Hwy 49 to North San Juan (store) (2.3 miles,) and Nevada City (13.4
miles) is next.

Entering Nevada City, head right onto W. Broad St., which further down
is a part of the racecourse. If you get there before 1:00pm your can
do a few loops on the course.

One alternative option is to start at the Lakeside Market east of
Oroville turning it into a 55-mile ride. Another alternative is to
ride from One Mile to Bullards Bar, 65 miles, and get a ride up to
Nevada City.