Ambitious A real undertaking. Demanding on a couple of fronts, like rough surfaces plus steady climbing, or a long stretch on busier roads.
Difficulty Our overall read of how demanding a route is. We score surface roughness, climbing, singletrack, and how far it runs from services. The route publisher's own rating, a lot of busy road riding, or sheer scale can push the tier up, never down.
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How we describe routes →The Blue Heron Loop covers 18 km of quiet dyke gravel, farmland, and forest singletrack between Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge. Nearly flat but almost all unpaved and rough in stretches, it rewards wider tires and unhurried pace, and the birdwatching, herons especially, is the point.
Dashed line = our rough sketch of where the ride goes. The rideable route lives at get the book from Let's Go Biking.
This route travels through the traditional territories of the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Kwantlen, kʷikʷəƛ̓əm, S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), sc̓əwaθenaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsawwassen), and sq̓əc̓iy̓aɁɬ təməxʷ (Katzie).
Territory data from Native Land Digital, for educational purposes only.