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Camp 10 Road

1679.5 m · net rise 53.4 m · total ascent 121.3 m · overall 3.2% · evidence quality U (needs confirmation) · Kaumakani-Hanapepe · Hawaii ·

Shape: sustained — 42% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 59 m.

Found purely from mapping and LiDAR data, and not yet matched against books, race records or lists — it may be well known to locals under a name we've never heard. It was cross-checked against the state road inventory, OpenStreetMap and the point-cloud evidence for a graded road bed, but a discovery can still be an artifact of the terrain model or the map. Treat it as a well-evidenced hypothesis until someone has ridden it. If you know this road, tell us what you found — photographs, corrections and local knowledge all welcome; the map links below let you scout it first.

needs review short window divergence, texture unresolved — treat short-window maxima here as provisional.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

WindowMaximumLocated at
2 m (diagnostic)≈43%1673–1675 munder overhead cover terrain reads 80.4% at 34–36 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈38%1304–1307 munder overhead cover terrain reads 78.3% at 34–37 m across a structure — excluded
5 m≈30%1303–1308 munder overhead cover terrain reads 53.8% at 33–38 m across a structure — excluded
10 m≈20%409–419 munder overhead cover terrain reads 42.4% at 123–133 m across a structure — excluded
20 m≈16.5%1461–1481 munder overhead cover terrain reads 26.0% at 113–133 m across a structure — excluded
25 m≈16.0%1456–1481 munder overhead cover terrain reads 22.2% at 113–138 m across a structure — excluded
50 m≈13.0%1434–1484 munder overhead cover terrain reads 17.8% at 1488–1538 m across a structure — excluded
100 m≈10.5%385–485 munder overhead cover terrain reads 15.1% at 1436–1536 m across a structure — excluded

descends at startmay continue beyond end Extent detection suggests reviewing where this climb starts/ends.

Map

Check this route yourself: Google Maps route via their router · Street View at the base where coverage exists · geojson.io our exact measured line · OpenTopoMap

This climb's data: OCL JSON — the full gradient ladder, quality flags and provenance in the OpenClimb Ladder format.

Surface: unpaved throughout, according to each state's road inventory.

Access: Listed 2026-09-11 (texture re-measure): with the step masked the steepest 25 m reads 16.0 %, below the ranking door — kept as a listed page.

Measured, not vetted. This page records what the laser record shows about the road's shape — nothing more. Nobody has necessarily ridden or inspected this road for the survey, and a page here is not a recommendation and no guarantee that the road is open, surfaced, rideable or safe. Gates, private sections, missing rights of way and hazards do not show up in elevation data. Check access and conditions on the ground and make your own judgment.

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Route colour = gradient over a 25 m window: <10% 10–20% 20–25% ≥25%

  © OpenStreetMap contributors · topo tiles © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · vector tiles OpenFreeMap · aerial imagery USGS (public domain)

Camp 10 Road LiDAR hillshade map with contours

Profile

The map, profile and gradient chart share one position — move your pointer over them and the marker follows. Colors are the gradient bands; the shaded span is the steepest 25 m. Any 25 m figure is good to about a point either way (why).

Camp 10 Road elevation profile
Camp 10 Road rolling gradient profile
 

Measurement card

ElevationUSGS 3DEP (The National Map) — USGS 3DEP 1 m DEM, HI_FEMAR9Kauai_2019_D19 (collected 2019)
Resolution / CRS1.0 m grid, EPSG:26904; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation
Tilesx43y245
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract), snapshot 2026-09-07T20:21:20Z
Quality statusevidence quality U; review flags: short window divergence, texture unresolved
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run texture-us-hi-260911, calculated 2026-09-11

Provenance

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  "analysis_version": "0.1.0",
  "sample_interval_m": 1.0,
  "interpolation": "bilinear",
  "smoothing": "none",
  "gradient_windows_m": [
    5.0,
    10.0,
    20.0,
    25.0,
    50.0,
    100.0
  ],
  "diagnostic_windows_m": [
    2.0,
    3.0
  ],
  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:26904",
  "elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
  "elevation_tiles": [
    "data/cache/usa/hi/USGS_1M_4_x43y245_HI_FEMAR9Kauai_2019_D19.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-11T23:12:19+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/hawaii-2026-09-08-batch.osm.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "2026-09-07T20:21:20Z",
  "run_id": "texture-us-hi-260911",
  "elevation_provider": "USGS 3DEP (The National Map)",
  "elevation_licence": "Public domain \u2014 USGS 3DEP 1 m DEM, courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey",
  "elevation_dataset": "USGS 3DEP 1 m DEM, HI_FEMAR9Kauai_2019_D19 (collected 2019)",
  "elevation_tile_ids": [
    "x43y245"
  ],
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "canopy_check": "unavailable \u2014 no surface model (DSM or point cloud) registered for this coverage",
  "license": "ODbL-1.0",
  "license_url": "https://howsteep.org/licensing"
}