City Rides, Bike Trails & Weekend Getaways
Best Bike Rides
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Taste and wander your way by bike with Bikabout's collection of the best bike rides in North America. Use the search field below to find a bike route.
Ravenswood Brewery Bike Tour
This super-chill ride will take you through several locally-owned breweries (and one distillery) through the Ravenswood area of Chicago!
Holiday Shopping in Downtown Milwaukee
Beat the holiday shopping frenzy and shop local on this 5 mile bike route. Explore Milwaukee's small shop scene while making pitstops to grab a bite to eat, a coffee or a beer. Many Bublr Bikes stations are located along the way so you don't have to worry about bringing your own bike downtown.
Best Bike Ride of Pittsburgh, City of Bridges
7-10 mile bike route. Pittsburgh is known for its Three Rivers (the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio). Long before the rivers were lined with the multi-use Three Rivers Heritage Trail, the plentiful water access contributed to Pittsburgh’s industrial growth.
Montreal's Mount Royal
Montrealers call it “the mountain.” Really it’s a big hill, and no trip to Montreal would be complete without making it up the city’s famous icon through one of its loveliest parks. Our favorite way of getting up there is of course by bike, along the wide gravel path through the park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (the same Olmsted who designed New York City’s Central Park).
Cape Cod Weekend Getaway by Bike, Ferry and Train
WEEKEND GETAWAY, 50-85 MILES
We begin with a high-speed ferry from Boston to the lovely, remote tip of the Cape, Provincetown. Surface streets carry you southward towards the vast National Seashore and Wellfleet, home to arguably the best oysters in the world, and to the starting point for the Cape's wonderful rail trail. We've found plenty of food and drink stops dotting your route south to Dennis, where the rail trail ends and more surface streets pick up your route west to Hyannis and the Cape Town Flyer, a bike-friendly train that will take you back to Boston.
We Love Oakland!
2.5 days exploring Oakland's vintage shopping, farmers markets, coffee and a bar on the National Literary Landmark Register in 3 bike routes for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 3-7 miles each. Bikabout has stitched this low-stress bike routes to experience local, Kara Oberg’s, favorite places on 2 wheels. Hopefully by the end of the ride, you’ll love Oakland, like #WeloveOakland.
Four centuries of Bermuda to Explore
Take a slow roll of St. George's rich history and scenery on a route curated by Bermuda's cultural icon, Kristin White.
Visit Fort Collins: Bikes, Beers and Buddies
The theme of this #bestbikeride in Fort Collins: casual riding on great biking infrastructure, ending with a good brew.
California, Here We Come: 2.5 Days by Bike in Santa Monica
Want to take a family beach vacation in California? Here’s a weekend getaway by bike in Santa Monica. The itinerary and route is adapted from an Airbnb Mag article, “California, Here We Come”, by Candice Rainey.
5 Brooklynites' Favorite Places
A writer, 2 restauranteurs (1 of them also a literal rock star), a shopkeeper and a fashion designer share their favorite places in the best borough of NY: Brooklyn. This ride is adapted from the May 6, 2017 Wall Street Journal “An Insider’s Guide”.
Hot Springs & Epic Swimming Holes Bike Ride
Just a 50 mile drive from Portland, escape into Cascadia bliss: swimming holes, scenic bikeway, riverside camping and HOT SPRINGS!
Great Allegheny Passage Trail and C&O Towpath
340 miles of dedicated car-free bike trails between Pittsburgh and Washington, DC, makes the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Towpath the most desirable multi-day bike tour in the United States!
Taste of Greenville
Explore Jordan Rumsey's favorite culinary spots downtown and off the Swamp Rabbit Trail.
Chelsea Art by Bike and Foot
NYC offers enough interesting things to do to keep you biking for years and it's also a surprisingly easy city to bike around with all the paths and separated bike lanes! If you've always wanted to see NYC by bike, here's your chance. Pack your bags for a weekend getaway! These two routes are a constellation of sites connecting art, architecture, food, drink & browsing found in the West Village, Chelsea and Downtown.
Christmas in Vancouver on Two Wheels
Vancouver is a great place to discover by bicycle throughout our warm summers. However, the city lights up over the holiday season and hosts numerous activities and events to get you into the spirit of the season. For our family, it has become a tradition to bundle up and set out to any number of activities throughout Vancouver on bicycles. With a portable stereo on hand, we enjoy the twinkling lights and get into the Christmas spirit while listening to some of our favourite Indie Christmas songs.
Badger Pride Ride in Madison
Want to experience first-hand the impact UW-Madison’s largest volunteer program is making in Madison communities? Take this 10 mile self-guided bike ride of iconic landmarks in Madison.
In and Around Beautiful Decatur
This scenic twenty mile loop features beautiful neighborhoods, a historic cemetery established in the 1830’s, a photogenic college campus, a pastoral horse farm, a nature preserve and city parks. Your stomach will delight that the route starts and ends in Decatur, the best food neighborhood in Atlanta.
Boston Ice Cream Bike Ride
Taste 5 of Boston's best ice cream scoops in this 14 mile ride of scenic bikeways through North Point Park, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Southwest Corridor Trail and Olmsted's Emerald Necklace.
A Delicious Day by the Border in San Diego
This route is a great way to see so many of the parts of San Diego that make it the place I have chosen to live and to enjoy some of the city's best food, sights and roads. All within easy cruising distance of the mid city area.
Stay Chocolatey, San Diego
The beaches are beautiful, the weather perfect and the chocolate divine. Taste San Diego’s extraordinary chocolates.