Handcar Regatta

Please review the following items:

• Driving Directions
• Local Area Map & Motor Carriage or “Car” Parking
• Valet Bike Parking
• Local Lodgings

Driving Directions

The Handcar Regatta is located at Railroad Square in the old downtown Santa Rosa, California, “Depot Park” between 4th and 5th Streets near Wilson Street.

Santa Rosa is approximately 48 miles north of San Francisco via Highway 101.

• North on Hwy 101
  1. Exit 3rd Street Downtown
  2. Turn left on 3rd Street under freeway (West).
  3. Head two blocks to Wilson Street, go right (North).
  4. Head North for one block to the Handcar Regatta grounds on the left.
• South on Hwy 101
  1. Exit at Downtown Santa Rosa.
  2. The exit merges to Davis Street, head South for one block to 5th Street, turn right (West).
  3. Head West for one block to the Handcar Regatta grounds straight ahead.
• West on Hwy 12
  1. In Santa Rosa, turn left (South) on Farmer’s Lane (it remains Hwy 12).
  2. Head South for less than a mile to Hwy 12 Sebastopol West, turn right (West).
  3. Travel less than a mile to 101 North exit to the right.
  4. Remain in right off ramp lane to Third Street exit, turn left (West).
  5. Go beneath freeway overpass, then two blocks to right (North) on Wilson Street.
  6. Head North for one block to the Handcar Regatta grounds on the left.
• East on Hwy 12
  1. In Santa Rosa, exit Dutton Avenue, turn left (North).
  2. Go under freeway for two short blocks to West Third Street, turn right (East).
  3. Go less than a mile past train tracks to Wilson Street, turn left (North).
  4. Head North for one block to the Handcar Regatta grounds on the left.

Leaving Handcar Regatta
Essentially, all of the instructions above may be reversed to return.

Local Area Map & Motor Carriage or “Car” Parking

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Valet Bike Parking

The Great West End and Railroad Square Handcar Regatta is proud to procure Free Secure Bicycle Parking!

Do not pilot your noisome motor carriage and indulge a headache amidst traffic and a limitless pursuit of parking space. Instead, dear reader and ambitious saver of precious resources, ride your “BIKE“!

We are providing a safe and secure setting for you to leave your bicycle or Pennyfarthing Hi-Wheeler at our grand event, free of charge!

The noble Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition, whose lofty goal it is to promote the bicycle as transportation and recreation, will be providing free valet bicycle parking. Indeed!

So, good people of Santa Rosa and beyond, retreat from said motor carriages and debark into the fresh air, relishing this great event on two pedal-power wheels instead of four!