Every ride on Get Inspired was researched, mapped, and written up by one of these 14 route publishers. We point; they know the way. Here's who they are, in full — and their showcased BC rides.
Let's Go Biking is a British Columbia cycling guidebook series written by Colleen MacDonald, a champion of slow, scenic, family-friendly riding. Her three guidebooks — Around Vancouver; Okanagan and Beyond; and Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and Sunshine Coast — come with a companion website of mapped rides, walks, and runs.
bikepacking.com is an independently operated, member-supported bikepacking media platform founded in 2012 by Logan Watts. It publishes original and curated bikepacking routes, gear reviews, adventure stories, and planning guides, with a global route network spanning nearly 50 countries, alongside a biannual print magazine, The Bikepacking Journal.
Gravel Buddies is a Vancouver-based cycling community that organizes group gravel rides for women, gender-diverse, and 2SLGBTQIA+ riders, ranging from short evening rides in Stanley Park to multi-day bikepacking trips.
Bike Gear Database is a Canadian online publication covering gravel and bikepacking gear reviews, rider stories, and community-submitted route guides. Routes are organized by country and region, including a Canada section with several British Columbia rides — and every route in the library has actually been ridden by the community before it's published.
Trails BC (the Trails Society of BC) is a non-profit charity that advocates for greenway trails for self-propelled recreation and active transportation across the province.
The Cross Canada Cycle Tour Society (CCCTS) is a non-profit cycling club founded in 1982, based in British Columbia with a chapter in Ottawa. In its own words, it is a club for active adults of all ages; members are mainly retired people who love recreational cycling. Volunteers organize weekly day rides plus multi-day and cross-Canada tours, some of which have run continuously since the 1980s.
BT 700 Bikepacking is a route-publishing site run by Ontario adventure cyclist and writer Matthew Kadey, one of Canada's most prolific bikepacking route builders. It grew out of the original BT700 gravel loop in southwestern Ontario and now offers downloadable route files for gravel and bikepacking rides across Canada, including several in British Columbia.
Adventure Cycling Association is a nonprofit based in Missoula, Montana, born as Bikecentennial in 1973 and famous for the 1976 ride that sent thousands of cyclists across the United States. Fifty years on, it is North America's reference library for bicycle travel: tens of thousands of kilometres of mapped routes in the Adventure Cycling Route Network, Adventure Cyclist magazine, and guided trips.
Elbow Valley Cycle Club is a Calgary-based recreational cycling club, one of the largest in Western Canada with roughly 700 members. It organizes about 250 events a year, including road, gravel, and multi-day touring rides, several of which cross into British Columbia.
British Columbia Randonneurs Cycling Club is a long-distance cycling club with deep roots: randonneuring in BC dates to 1979, and the club was a founding member of Les Randonneurs Mondiaux, the world body for 1,200 km grand randonnées, in 1983. With regional chapters in the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, Southern Interior, and Peace Region, it organizes brevets (timed long-distance rides of 200 km and up), populaires (shorter introductory events), and permanents (self-paced routes available year-round), and publishes the routes on Ride with GPS. Its celebrated Rocky Mountain 1200 drew riders from around the world.
The Great Northern Bikepacking Route (GNBR) is an independently created, mostly off-road bikepacking route spanning over 13,000 km across 10 Canadian provinces and 3 U.S. states, from the Pacific to the Atlantic — one of the most ambitious route-mapping projects in the country. It is published segment by segment on a dedicated website, with route data on RideWithGPS and gear and provisioning notes alongside the maps.
The Great Community Route Celebration was a global cycling route-creation event hosted by Ride with GPS, running June 11 to July 5, 2020. Participants worldwide created and submitted routes highlighting places and spaces in their own communities, adding points of interest and photos along the way. The event drew 523 route submissions from 51 countries.
Trans Canada Trail is a national charitable organization, based in Ottawa, that coordinates and maintains the Trans Canada Trail (also known as The Great Trail) — a roughly 30,000 km multi-use trail network spanning every Canadian province and territory and connecting the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic coastlines. The network supports hiking, cycling, paddling, and other activities, and is built and managed through partnerships with regional and local trail organizations rather than owned as a single continuous trail.
A volunteer-run, community-collaborative project mapping a proposed coast-to-coast National Cycling Route Network for Canada. It publishes route data as GPX files, a Garmin BaseCamp database (GDB) with points of interest, KMZ files for offline smartphone use, interactive Google Maps, and a curated Ride with GPS collection.
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