Long-Distance Routes

335 miles of car-free trail from Washington DC to Pittsburgh — the C&O Canal Towpath meets the Great Allegheny Passage at Cumberland, MD.

3,000 miles of trails and low-traffic roads from Calais, Maine to Key West, Florida — an urban cycling highway through 450 cities.

2,745 miles of dirt and gravel from Banff, Alberta to the Mexican border — the world's longest off-pavement cycling route.

The longest rail trail in the US — 240 miles of crushed limestone along the Missouri River through wine country and historic river towns.

1,800 miles of coastline from Astoria, Oregon to San Diego — arguably the most scenic road cycling tour in North America.

3,100 miles across the Sun Belt from San Diego to St. Augustine — America's warm-weather cross-country route, best ridden in winter.

The original cross-country route — 4,228 miles from Astoria, Oregon to Yorktown, Virginia, designed for the 1976 US Bicentennial.

The world's most famous pilgrimage route — 500 miles from the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela, ridden by cyclists for centuries.

2,800 miles along Europe's great rivers — Loire, Rhine, Danube — from the Atlantic coast of France to the Black Sea in Romania.

1,900 miles from Cape Reinga to Bluff — New Zealand's epic bikepacking route through volcanoes, Alps, and two island coastlines.