Moderate One step up. Some real climbing, or a rougher surface.
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 →A 100 km gravel loop starting and finishing at the Lafarge Lake–Douglas SkyTrain station, reachable without a car. Flat pea-gravel dyke riding through Coquitlam and Pitt Meadows leads into Golden Ears Provincial Park, with a turnaround near North Beach and a climb past Mike Lake on the way back.
Dashed line = our rough sketch of where the ride goes. The rideable route lives at get the route from Love Machine.
Plus the fast-food chains — Papa John's, Pizza Hut, Subway +19 more
+41 more in Port Coquitlam →Plus the fast-food chains — High Street Pizza, Quiznos, Xpress Donair House
+11 more in Coquitlam →Port Coquitlam is the handiest transit doorway for this ride. Trains, ferries, buses, and the SkyTrain will carry you and your bike there:
Also on the bike-transit map: Coquitlam · Maple Ridge
This route travels through the traditional territories of the Á,LEṈENEȻ ȽTE (W̱SÁNEĆ), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, Kwantlen, kʷikʷəƛ̓əm, Qayqayt, Quw’utsun, S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), sc̓əwaθenaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsawwassen), Semiahmoo, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), sq̓əc̓iy̓aɁɬ təməxʷ (Katzie), and Stz’uminus.
Territory data from Native Land Digital, for educational purposes only.