Sacramento / Bodega Bay
(140 / 141 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and Bodega Bay via Winters, Calistoga, Santa Rosa, and Occidental.  Two basic sections comprise these two routes:  1) Sacramento Valley floor [Sacramento to Winters] 2) Coast Range [Winters to Bodega Bay].  Climbing occurs between Winters and the Silverado Trail, Calistoga and Santa Rosa, and Occidental and Bodega Bay.  The Sacramento Valley floor is very flat and consists of urban areas and Yolo County farmland.  The Coast Range consists of hills and valleys and requires the climbing.  Routes are identical except for passage through Sacramento.  (An optional, alternative return from Bodega Bay to Sacramento is described, which passes through Glen Ellen and Oakville rather than Calistoga.)
 

Sacramento / Marysville / Chico
Sacramento - Marysville (67 / 67 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and Marysville.  The routes cover flat, rural agricultural land in the northern Sacramento Valley.  The two routes are identical.
Sacramento - Chico (122 / 121 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and Chico via Marysville and Oroville, with an alternative destination of Paradise.  The routes cover flat, rural, agricultural land in the northern Sacramento Valley.  The two routes are identical.

Sacramento / Nevada City/Downieville/Graeagle-Portola
Sacramento - Nevada City (67 / 72 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and Nevada City via Folsom and Auburn, with an alternative destination of Grass Valley.  Two basic sections comprise these routes:  1) Sacramento Valley 2) Sierra Nevada Foothills.  The two routes are identical except for the section between Folsom and Auburn.

Sacramento - Graeagle-Portola (159 / 163 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and Graeagle via Folsom, Auburn, Nevada City, and Downieville, with an alternative destination of Portola.  Three basic sections comprise these routes:  1) Sacramento Valley 2) Sierra Nevada Foothills 3) Sierra Nevada Mountains.  The two routes are identical except for the section between Folsom and Auburn.

Sacramento / Oakland
(121 / 115 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and Oakland via Antioch and Walnut Creek.  Four basic sections comprise these routes:  1) Southern Sacramento region [(Sacramento to Hood] 2) Sacramento River & Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta [Hood to Antioch] 3) Transition from Central Valley to East Bay Hills [Antioch to Walnut Creek] 4) East Bay Hills [Walnut Creek to Oakland].  Sacramento to Antioch is very flat, and a significant portion of this distance follows the Sacramento River.  Mild hilliness is encountered between Antioch and Walnut Creek.  Most of the climbing occurs west of Walnut Creek.  Routes are identical except for the climb/descent between Orinda and Grizzly Peak Road.
 

Sacramento / Placerville / South Lake Tahoe
(Sacramento - Placerville (40 / 40 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and Placerville, passing through El Dorado Hills, Cameron Park, and Folsom.  Two basic sections comprise these routes:  1) Sacramento Valley 2) Sierra Nevada Foothills.  The two routes are identical.
Sacramento - South Lake Tahoe (124 / 124 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe, passing through El Dorado Hills, Cameron Park, Folsom, Placerville, and Sly Park.  Three basic sections comprise these routes:  1) Sacramento Valley 2) Sierra Nevada Foothills 3) Sierra Nevada Mountains.  The two routes are identical.  
 

Sacramento / Plymouth
(40 / 40 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and Plymouth via Folsom.  Two basic sections comprise these routes:  1) Sacramento Valley 2) Sierra Nevada Foothills.  The two routes are identical.
 

Sacramento / San Francisco
(132 / 131 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and San Francisco via Napa and Novato. Three basic sections comprise these two routes:  1) Sacramento Valley floor [Sacramento to Winters] 2) Coast Range [Winters to Novato] 3) Marin County and San Francisco. Principle climbing extends between Winters and Napa, although Marin County also has a few short climbs.; total climbing is mild relative to the distances.  The Sacramento Valley floor is very flat and consists of urban areas and Yolo County farmland.  The Coast Range principally consists of rural hills and valleys and requires the most climbing.  Marin County-San Francisco is urban and mostly flat.  Routes are identical except for passages through Sacramento, San Rafael, and San Francisco.

Sacramento / Sonora
(108 / 106 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and Sonora. Two basic sections comprise these two routes:  1) Sacramento Valley floor [Sacramento to Copperopolis OR Campo Seco to Sacramento] 2) Sierra Nevada foothills [Copperopolis to Sonora OR Sonora to Campo Seco].  Most climbing occurs in the foothills.  The Sacramento Valley floor is flat and consists of rural, undeveloped, often isolated grazing land.  The Sierra Nevada foothills are more vertical, but there is no severe climbing.   The two rides are not identical in the halves closest to Sonora; the halves closest to Sacramento share identical routes.  Either route may be ridden in either direction.
 

Sacramento / Stockton / Modesto
(Sacramento - Stockton (54 / 49 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and Stockton, with alternative destinations of Galt and Lodi.  The routes cover flat, largely rural agricultural land in the southern Sacramento Valley.  Either route may be ridden in either direction, differing only in the section between Carmichael and Sheldon.
Sacramento - Modesto (84 / 79 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and Modesto, with alternative destinations of Galt and Lodi.  The routes cover flat, largely rural agricultural land in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys.  Either route may be ridden in either direction, differing only in the section between Carmichael and Sheldon.  

Sacramento / Sutter Creek / Jackson / San Andreas
Sacramento - Sutter Creek (47 / 47 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and Sutter Creek via Ione.                        
                                Two basic sections comprise each of these three pairs of rides 1) Sacramento Valley 2) Sierra Nevada Foothills.  The two routes in each pair are identical.
Sacramento - Jackson (55 / 55 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and Jackson via Ione. 
Sacramento - San Andreas [Mokelumne Hill] (69 / 69 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and San Andreas (Mokelumne Hill) via Ione. 

Sacramento / Truckee / Reno
Sacramento - Truckee (105 / 110 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and Truckee via Folsom, Auburn and Colfax.  Three basic sections comprise these routes:  1) Sacramento Valley 2) Sierra Nevada Foothills 3) Sierra Nevada Mountains.  The two routes are identical except on I-80, Rollins Lake/Norton Grade roads, and the Loomis Basin.
Truckee - Reno (42 / 42 Miles)  These two mountainous routes connect Truckee and Reno.  Climbs to the Brockway and Mt Rose summits dominate this ride, although there are relatively flat sections immediately south of Truckee and along the Lake Tahoe shore.  At 8,900 feet the Mt Rose summit is the high point.  The two routes are identical.

Sacramento / Vallejo / San Francisco
(86 / 86 Miles)  These two routes connect Sacramento and San Francisco via Winters, Fairfield, Vallejo and the San Pablo & San Francisco Bays.  Three basic sections comprise these two routes:  1) Sacramento Valley floor [Sacramento to Winters] 2) Coastal hills [Winters to Vallejo] 3) San Pablo & San Francisco Bays [ferry ride from Vallejo to San Francisco].  The Sacramento Valley floor is very flat and consists of urban areas and Yolo County farmland.  Coastal hills are seen more than climbed, as these routes run just south of the Coast Range.  Routes are identical except along the streets of Sacramento.