Rockville, MD · on road · paved
Ridge Road
5.9-mile paved route with 151 ft of elevation gain, signed as part of the regional cycle network, route reference “27”, routed on public roads.
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Today's verdict
Workable day to get the road bike out.
61 /100
good
60 Bike commuting
61 Road
73 E-bike
74 Bike-share
Best for bike-share touring today
Route map
Orange marker is the start. Click the map to enable scroll-zoom — the polyline is approximate; use Ride with GPS or Komoot for turn-by-turn.
Atmosphere
- Air temp77°FCloudy
- Wind— mphNE
- Rain2%Next 24h: 0.04"
- Humidity69%
Surface & daylight
- Pavementdrypaved surface
- Sunrise6:46 AM
- Sunset7:24 PM155 min remaining
Best time today
5 PM looks best — 77°F · 2 mph NE wind · mostly cloudy. 6 PM is a close second (61/100).
77°
Mostly Cloudy
2 mph NE
61
77°
Mostly Cloudy
2 mph E
61
Wind on this route
Calm — wind is a non-factor today.
Currently 0 mph from the N (0°). Relative to this ride's overall bearing, a tailwind.
- Leg 1 Bearing 202° · tailwind 0.5 mi
- Leg 2 Bearing 196° · tailwind 0.5 mi
- Leg 3 Bearing 211° · quartering tailwind 0.5 mi
- Leg 4 Bearing 212° · quartering tailwind 0.5 mi
- Leg 5 Bearing 216° · quartering tailwind 0.5 mi
- Leg 6 Bearing 185° · tailwind 0.5 mi
- Leg 7 Bearing 195° · tailwind 0.5 mi
- Leg 8 Bearing 176° · tailwind 0.5 mi
Elevation profile
Score breakdown
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77°F air Within comfort range, outside ideal
-3 +
Pavement: dry Clean dry pavement — maximum grip.
+4 Advisories & nearby alerts
NWSTest Message
About this route
- Distance
- 5.9 mi one-way (double for round-trip)
- Elevation gain
- 151 ft
- Surface
- paved
- Shape
- Out-and-back
- Traffic exposure
- on road
- Activities
- road cycling · e bike · commuting · bike share-touring
- Cycle network
- RCN · route 27
- Start
39.2814, -77.2115- City hub
- Rockville, MD
- OSM
- relation 16243506
Description sourced from OpenStreetMap relation tags and member-way geometry.