Car Camping and Biking Across Canada - Route

Feb 4

After about a month of planning a few hours a day, I came up with this tentative plan for a cross country out and back bike tour of Canada, featuring over 80 rides mapped on Strava.
The purple is the driving, the little blobs are rides. I am not a bike packer and wouldn’t bike across Canada with no support.

Now I need your help!

Tell me if I missed anything or if you want to get in touch this summer ( 2022 ) and ride one of these loops, or if you want to show me a secret local one! Coffee on me!

Let me know what there is to do and eat that’s unique where you live. What MUST I do so I wouldn’t feel bad about never coming back?

Click on the images down below to expand. The purple blobs are bike rides, with their name in black and total distance / elevation of the ride!

Test Run on Vancouver Island then off to Vancouver area for some exploration rides.

Into the Rockies to start with doing the highest paved climbs in Canada

More passes and then popping in Calgary

Planned visit to the Dinosaur museum and the Badlands

Days of mostly driving through the prairies

Making it to Winnipeg where the scenery starts to look less bland

Many choices of rides on the way out/back, popping by the Lac Winnipeg beaches

Thunder Bay

Following the Great Lakes in Ontario

Ontario southern peninsula area with Niagara Falls

Ottawa and Montreal will be longer stops to visit friends and family. Rides TBD

Then long drive into New Brunswick

Many amazing looking rides near the ocean for many days

Tentative plans for Ile de la Madelaine, PEI and Cabot trail

Then taking the ferry to Newfoundland. It's huge.

Big detour to the very Northern Tip. I really don't want to have to come back, just making sure.

Making my way to St-John's, the easternmost point in Canada

After a 16 hour ferry back, making my way up to Gaspesie

Crossing the St-Laurent then heading to Saguenay to ride around Lac St-Jean

On the way back I head North from Manitoba to Prince Albert National Park.

Then through Edmonton where I learned the mall that used to be the largest in the world is now... 23rd...lol

Finally back to the Rockies and into Jasper and Banff parks

Lake Louise and Mount Revelstoke, Canada's highest paved climb.

And finally coming back to Vancouver from the North, through Whistler, ending with the Triple Crown ride

With 80 rides planned so far, at a rate of 6 rides/week to factor for rest/weather/tourism, this is a little over 13 weeks. Mid October is the weather cutoff in the Rockies so starting in late April I could be done by August 1st, giving me about 2 months of wiggle room, however I plan to use up a few weeks in Quebec since that’s where I know people!

Again: Get in touch if you want to ride or make suggestions!

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Car Camping and Biking Across Canada - Route

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