- Canada's vast wilderness offers incredible opportunities for cycling.cycling image by Imre Forgo from Fotolia.com
Canada's wide open spaces await you and your bike. Whether you're looking for a weekend jaunt, a long-distance trek or a group tour, the country offers pristine wilderness and friendly cities and towns for quality cycling. When selecting a ride, keep in mind your budget, practical needs and cycling ability. Then grab your water bottle, helmet and wheels, and take to the road. - If you wish to join a group for a guided tour through some of Canada's backcountry, you might try one of Pedal & Sea Adventures' trips. With tours going through Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and the Canadian Rockies, Pedal & Sea will show you Canada's varied geography. One seven-day tour cycles along the Bay of Fundy and the Evangeline trail, averaging around 65 miles per day. Backroads offers several biking trips in Canada, one tackling the Rockies through Banff and Jasper National Parks and another weaving among the lighthouses along the Bay of Fundy. Ibike offers an 11-day tour that begins in Seattle before heading north for Canada's Pacific shoreline. The trip is intended for cyclists of all levels.
- Once completed, the Trans Canada Trail will stretch from coast to coast, offering a magnificent grand trek and well-marked trails for short cycling trips at any point across the continent. The trail is designed to pass through provincial and territorial capitals, early explorers' historic routes, national and provincial parks, historic rail trails and urban parks. The Trans Canada Trail will pass through all of the country's provinces and territories, including a short length of trail in northerly Nunavut. The trail's website offers detailed maps and GPS data for trip planning.
- As the Trans Canada Trail is being completed, a number of other public trails offer cycling trips throughout the country. In Quebec, for example, La Route Verte offers on-road cycling through La Vallée des Forts and Le Chemin du Roy allows cyclists to travel between Montreal and Quebec, along the St. Lawrence River. Lake Champlain Bikeways offers scenic routes along the lake's shores. In Newfoundland, a partially-completed stretch of the Trans Canada Trail runs east to west across the island, linking St. John's with Channel-Port Aux Basques. In British Columbia, a trail begins in Vancouver and weaves across the mountains, eventually to cross the entire province.
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