12 cycling stops along this route · Vancouver Island
A 44 km wander around Gabriola Island, a twenty-minute ferry from Nanaimo, mixing trails and quiet island roads, more than half unpaved, with about 600 m of rolling climbing. Beaches, sandstone shorelines, and the island's easy pace do the rest.
The full map, turn-by-turns, and GPX for this ride are on Gravel Buddies. Our map shows roughly where the ride goes, not how to follow it.
The dashed line is our rough sketch, drawn only to show where the ride is. For the real, rideable route, get the route from Gravel Buddies.
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