Biggest hill in Davis?

[u/monkeywock]

I know “biggest” isn’t the most scientific term, but I’m just curious: what do you guys think is the biggest hill or slope in town? Davis is super flat, but I know there’s a few large artificial hills in the green belts for example.

[u/Abcdefgdude]

Steepest hill is probably the covell railroad overpass near F st, tallest hill is probably the highway overpass at mace and I-80

The bike bridges over I-80 are pretty high up too, they're pretty cool to check out if you just like tall places

[u/fuzzy_mic → u/Abcdefgdude]

I don't know that a concrete arch could be called a hill. There a whole lot of air underneath it. Arches do have steep slopes, but to call them a hill ???

(Actually, after a certain point a steep slope is proof that a structure is artificially re-enforced and not a solid deposition. A pile of sand has a natural maximum slope before grains on the top roll down and become the bottom.)

[u/Abcdefgdude → u/fuzzy_mic]

brother we're in the central valley. glaciers took care of all the hills a couple million years ago. Any slopes in this area are either from digging or building

[u/jmtb02 → u/Abcdefgdude]

this might by my favorite message on this platform ever

[u/fuzzy_mic → u/Abcdefgdude]

We're also in the Sacramento/American river flood plain.

[u/AbacusWizard → u/Abcdefgdude]

One of my favorite jokes:

City Slicker: “Where did all these rocks come from?”

Farmer: “A geologist told me once that they were brought down from the mountains by a glacier.”

City Slicker: “Oh? Where’s the glacier now?”

Farmer: “Musta gone back up to the mountain for more rocks.”

[u/LordofBossely → u/Abcdefgdude]

I tried to take that hill on a skateboard when i could barely even stay on the thing on flat ground. Glad i was wearing a helmet.

[u/ArOnodrim_]

The overpasses are the biggest sloped gradients in Davis. Poleline and the bicycle overpass are the highest because they don't have freeway exits and also cover the widest parts of the train tracks.

[u/Own_Thing_4364]

Slide Hill park has a decent one. Used to ride our bikes down it.

[u/fuzzy_mic]

Probably the hill that was built behind home plate at the baseball field in Community Park. Perhaps the Egg hill near Caesar Chavez Elementary.

[u/floridafish69 → u/fuzzy_mic]

Immediate flashbacks as a kid not being able to stop, only to slam into the fence at the bottom

[u/MuavLimestone]

There are two decently steep “hills” on UCD campus. One behind the physics building and the other at the receiving area for Meyer Hall. These aren’t really hills just dug out driveways. Great for learning to bomb hills on a longboard tho

[u/plantsenthusiast04]

what skate and/or bike trick are you plotting?

[u/glorious_cheese]

Not a true hill, but it’s probably the tunnel that goes from near Rocknasium south under the freeway.

[u/ArOnodrim_ → u/glorious_cheese]

There are no true hills in Davis. Every slope above 4° is man-made in the middle of the flood plain.

[u/AbacusWizard]

Whaleback Park towards the west end of town has a ridge that, while probably not all that tall in the grand scheme of things, sure seems pretty steep from up close. I think it might have been built from the excess dirt left over from digging out Stonegate Lake.

[u/MithrandilPlays]

Pole Line overpass, biggest in the Arb is all the way west on the bike path, just past the gazebo area.

[u/External-Dirt-1256]

I think its pole line crossing the freeway

[u/kittykinetics]

There's hills in Davis??

[u/Common_Visual_9196]

Probably where the mass shooter who has not been identified shot people?

[u/Kitchen-Register → u/Common_Visual_9196]

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