Jesus Maria Rd - Mokelumne Hill, CA
- Tim Mayhew
- Mar 28
- 1 min read
Updated: Mar 29
Jesus-Maria Rd in the Central Sierra Nevada Foothills near Mokelumne Hill, CA isn't likely a road you'd ever find on your own.
Quietly placed in-between two major thoroughfares - Highway 88-Carson Pass & Highway 4-Ebbetts Pass - the motorcycle mind comes to realize it fits perfectly for a zigzag route through the Sierra Foothills hovering around the 2000 ft level ensures staying below the snow line & above the busy Highway 49.
Ride Highway 26 downhill.
Ride Jesus Maria uphill.
Ride Railroad Flat/Mountain House downhill.
Ride Highway 4 back uphill.
Perfect.
The gold-rush community of Jesus Maria along Highway 26 was originally the center of a large 1850s placer mining operation, and the community was named for a Mexican man, Jesús María, who came to the area in the early 1850s. (pronounce it the Spanish way, not the biblical way.)
Jesus Maria Rd used to be super-goaty, the kind of road that rattled fillings loose, but was repaved a little over a year ago. It's perfect single lane frivolity and contains nearly 15 miles of single lane swoops, boops, and whoops.
Blind rises and rhythm sections stacked one after another as if the road was sketched with a crayon by a four-year-old who dreams of riding motorcycles.
Plan to ride it uphill.
Let the engine pull. Let the corners stack. Let the world fall away behind you.
Pure foothill euphoria.
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