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Cariboo Chilcotin Coast
Photo: Andrew StrainCanim Lake, BC

Cariboo Chilcotin Coast

Long quiet roads through ranch country. This is where the wild starts.
9 rides from 8 publishers — all of them, no shortlist. Open any ride for its welcoming stops and how to get there; the maps, turn-by-turns and full details live on the publishers' sites, one click further.
Best of the South Chilcotin Mountains
Photo: BIKEPACKING.comBest of the South Chilcotin Mountains
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Best of the South Chilcotin Mountains
BIKEPACKING.com · 121 km · Weekend or more
EpicLow-traffic ridingAlmost all gravelLots of singletrackRough, near-MTBMax climbingRemote stretches

Canada's bikepacking hotspot, ridden in a long weekend: a 121 km loop linking the South Chilcotins' most rideable singletrack through mid-elevation meadows, dry forest, and open alpine under high peaks. It is all unpaved, mostly trail, and genuinely remote, with no resupply or cell service, so arrive self-sufficient. Strong fitness and mountain bike skills turn it from an ordeal into the highlight of your year. Wildflowers peak in June and July.

Stops, map + getting there →

BIKEPACKING.com

bikepacking platformvisit site →
Founded in 2012, BIKEPACKING.com is the leading resource for bikepacking routes, in-depth gear reviews, inspiration, planning insight, adventure stories, news, and events. For over a decade, we've been building, establishing, sharing, and maintaining the largest library of high-quality bikepacking routes around the world. We now have over 240,000 kilometers (150,000 miles) worth of routes in over 70 countries. This includes our Bikepacking Collective Route Network, which is our collection of original and exceptional bikepacking routes designed by our team of experienced Route Architects or skilled contributors from the community. New Bikepacking Collective Routes are partially funded and supported by the Bikepacking Collective, our member community. As we update and refine some of our popular published routes, we'll induct them into the network, along with other distinguished rides. We're a fully independent platform with a core team of editors who strive to inspire readers to get out and explore our planet, discover its wild places, and connect with its diverse cultures, all via the bicycle's elegant simplicity.
26 of their BC rides + their story →

Great Northern Bikepacking Route

individual route creatorvisit site →
The Great Northern Bikepacking Route (GNBR) is a mostly off-road bikepacking route created by Ontario adventure cyclist and writer Matt Kadey, 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.
2 of their BC rides + their story →

Cross Canada Cycle Tour Society

touring organizationvisit site →
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.
10 of their BC rides + their story →

The Great Community Route Celebration

event organizervisit site →
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.
2 of their BC rides + their story →

BT 700 Bikepacking

individual route creatorvisit site →
BT 700 Bikepacking is a route-publishing site run by Ontario adventure cyclist and writer Matt 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.
10 of their BC rides + their story →

Trans Canada Bike Route Network

route networkvisit site →
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.
1 of their BC rides + their story →

Bike Gear Database

route networkvisit site →
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.
10 of their BC rides + their story →

Different corner of BC?#

Vancouver, Coast and Mountains · 153Vancouver Island · 90Thompson Okanagan · 55Kootenay Rockies · 39Northern British Columbia · 6
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