We give you the five cycling holiday destinations we think you have to visit! These include Flanders, Boulder, Mallorca, Alta Badia and Adelaide. Each makes our list for different reasons and we recommend trying to experience them all.
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Looking for a great cycling holiday destination? Check out our top five recommendations of places we think you should visit. From the cobbles of Flanders to the 14,000ft mountains of Boulder, this list gives a wide variety of options for your trip away.
Our list comprises:
Flanders, Belgium
Boulder, Colorado
Mallorca, Spain
Alta Badia, Italy
Adelaide, Australia
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Where do you think the best cycling destination is? 👇
Taiwan
Around Boulder and Denver It takes a while to acclimatise to the altitude and being super dry atmosphere due to the altitude again makes it easy to dehydrate under suffer mountain sickness so you need to manage this in summer. It is a great cycling destination and a beautiful part of the world. But it’s Radelaide for me as I am biased and it’s my country so of course it’s the best.
Maui HI, there's Haleakala to climb, the West Maui Loop, and the Road to Hana. There are some dodgy bits on WML and RTH, where the road gets very narrow, but the scenery is amazing and the weather is very consistent.
Corfu is great! Theyre definately not advertising the place enough for cycling holidays
Kandıra, Kocaeli, Turkey
İznik Lake
Kartepe
They'll be my destinations for this summer.
Hokkaido and Kyushu have been mentioned, but, really, ANYWHERE in Japan!
Ötztaler Radmarathon, the mountain around Sölden Austria
If you want to go somewhere with amazing cycling, car free roads, an abundance of spectacular and varied views, plus some of the best local food in the world, try the Cevennes Mountains in south-central France: http://www.445cyclingtours.com/product/highroad-cevennes/. The best part is, you'll be among the rare cycling breed who knows about it.
Gran Canaria. Great climbs, fantastic scenery, super roads, always good weather, …. need I say more. Oh yes, also all the logistics support you ever need.
Bormio, Italy has to make the list
Portugal as very nice road to ride particularly in north and center. and you can't miss the serra da estrela with a massive climb. I've done a GF sera da estrela last year, the final climb was terrific !
What about Lanzarote? Stunning views, great climbs and wind, wind and more wind.
We just spent 3 weeks cycling around South Korea and we are pretty well convinced it may be the best place in Asia or even the world for a cycling holiday. See: https://bit.ly/2zvyV2D or Google 'Seoul to Busan Cycling'. Must of the route from Seoul to Busan is on a bike path that is almost the size of a road. There is plenty of accomodation or camping along the route. The people are friendly, polite and will go out of their way to help you.
Tenerife !
I work here already 4y as a cycling guide and can know the most beautiful/ epic climbs here !
Virginia, and Skyline Drive, also Shenandoah Valley
San Diego, California. Fantastic hill climbs like Mt Palomar (climb to 5500ft up constant switchbacks with spectacular views), up to Idelwild from Hemet, or along the road past Mt Laguna, looking down 3000ft into the desert. In all you'll be climbing from avocado and orange orchards to firs and pine at altitude. Dramtic scenery, good quality roads and and generally very polite and courteous drivers. Ride in short sleeves all year round, even in the middle of winter, where daytime temperatures still consistently reach mid twenties Celsius! Or, cruise along the coast from Oceanside to La Jolla, enjoying cafes long the route and a swim in the surf afterwards. The mountains and inland valleys can be very hot (30 – 37 Celsius) in the summer, but midday temperatures along the coast are a generally pleasant 18 – 25 degrees all year round. Rain – forget it. Maybe 10 days a year, and when it rains in southern California it pours, and no one bothers to ride those days…
San Diego, California. Fantastic hill climbs like Mt Palomar (climb to 5500ft up constant switchbacks with spectacular views), up to Idelwild from Hemet, or along the road past Mt Laguna, looking down 3000ft into the desert. In all you'll be climbing from avocado and orange orchards to firs and pine at altitude. Dramatic scenery, good quality roads and and generally very polite and courteous drivers. Ride in short sleeves all year round, even in the middle of winter, where daytime temperatures still consistently reach mid twenties Celsius! Or, cruise along the coast from Oceanside to La Jolla, enjoying cafes long the route and a swim in the surf afterwards. The mountains and inland valleys can be very hot (30 – 37 Celsius) in the summer, but midday temperatures along the coast are a generally pleasant 18 – 25 degrees all year round. Rain – forget it. Maybe 10 days a year, and when it rains in southern California it pours, and no one bothers to ride those days…
Summer is here aaaaaaaaaaaaand we are in quarantine.
I'm from the UK but live in Colorado so I'm biased and agree Mount Evans is good, it's not that steep just a constant slog and gets tough when you reach the higher altitude e.g. the last mile.
Boulder is good, don't rule out Utah, it is a beautiful state. Further west in the Colorado mountains is great too, e.g. Durango, Gunnison, Fruita (Kokopelli Trail), Monarch Crest (Salida). Buffalo Creek (Pine) is a common favorite for Colorado.
Arizona's good for some winter sun.
As for Europe, Club La Santa in Lanzarote and Mallorca (Sa Calobra, Lighthouse in the North Eastern point & so many more).
Chautauqua County with Chautauqua institution is an unknown cycling paradise with a small active cycling community, wonderful climbs and descents, with vineyards and blue water views that rival seaside descents. In the summer months the cultural scene/ acres bike activities are unparalleled.
Kent A Lieber MD