Trimmer Springs Rd - Pine Flat Lake

Trimmer Springs Rd into Piedra, CA is a ribbon of asphalt that clings to the northern shoreline of Pine Flat Lake known best for repeating s-curves. For riders seeking endless curve, this road is a masterpiece of constant radius changes allowing the lake shoreline to dictate the path of the road.

Starting at Piedra & found due east of Fresno in the Sierra Nevada Foothills, the centerpiece of this ride is the massive Pine Flat Lake, a centerpiece of California’s water infrastructure. The lake was created following the completion of the Pine Flat Dam in 1954. Built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the dam was designed primarily for flood control and irrigation, collecting the snowmelt of the Kings River.

The valley floor of the Kings River was home to the bustling 19th-century logging and mining camp of Trimmer. Today, the original townsite sits hundreds of feet beneath the water’s surface, only revealing its foundations during years of extreme drought.

The road itself feels like a purpose-built racetrack, far removed from the grid pattern network of straight roads in the nearby Central Valley. We always combine Trimmer Springs with Maxon to the north and Elwood to the south to create a north-south ride at the base of the Sierra Range. Keep adding roads to this north-south route and you can ride Bakersfield to Toll House to North Fork into Oakhurst and never touch a main road.

https://www.pashnittours.com/southern-foothills