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 Burrard Inlet Trails run 4 to 20 km out and back between Burnaby and Port Moody, mixing easy waterfront path with rougher forest singletrack. Choose the shoreline sections for a family outing, or add the trail stretches, which run genuinely rocky and rooty, for something livelier.
Dashed line = our rough sketch of where the ride goes. The rideable route lives at get the book from Let's Go Biking.
Harry Jerome Sports Centre: Indoor 200 m wooden velodrome — the only one in the Pacific Northwest. · Burnaby
Burnaby is the handiest transit doorway for this ride. The SkyTrain, ferries, and buses will carry you and your bike there:
Also on the bike-transit map: Port Moody
This route travels through the traditional territories of the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, kʷikʷəƛ̓əm, Qayqayt, S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), Stz’uminus, and šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam).
Territory data from Native Land Digital, for educational purposes only.