Where to ride

Family cycling – where to ride

If you’re looking for ideas on where to go on a family bike ride, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve got lots of thoughts on where to cycle with kids of all ages, from short rides through to multi-day family bike packing trips.

Happy cycling!

komoot routes

Follow us on komoot and find some of our favorite family cycling routes.

You can download the routes and follow them straight from your phone, plan your own routes and see highlights other cyclists recommend!

If you have any favorite routes, please do share them with us in komoot to inspire other families.

Some great places to ride

Family cycling holidays

One of our very favourite things is going on a family cycling holiday – unfortunately life / school / work gets in the way most of the time!  If you’re thinking about cycling on your holidays, you don’t need to make it too complicated – a single day’s riding is how we started.

Over the years we’ve built up to doing trips of up to a month away – but we always drive or take the train somewhere and camp and then ride from the campsite.

Some of our Cycle Sprog contributors prefer to leave the car at home and carry all their kit with them – and thankfully they’ve written up their adventures to help anyone else who wants to do similar.

Enjoy your holiday!

Room on the Broom Trail at Anglers Country Park, West Yorkshire

York Solar System Cycleway

Ever fancied cycling to Mars? You can – the York Solar System cycleway will take you on a ride that is out of this world!

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Windermere Bike Boat - family cycling in the Lake District

Windermere Bike Boat to Wray Castle – a family cycling adventure in the Lake District

Taking the Windermere Bike Boat to Wray Castle is a fabulous family cycling adventure

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Rest stop to admire the reservoir on the Longdendale Trail - part of the Trans Pennine Trail

Guide to Cycling the Trans Pennine Trail with Children

Stretching over 200 miles, the Trans Pennine Trail is a great option for a family cycling holiday

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Room on the Broom Trail at Anglers Country Park, West Yorkshire

Searching for Witches and Pixies – family cycling at Anglers Country Park near Wakefield

Here’s a spooky witch themed ride for Halloween!

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Willy Waver at Bike Park Wales

Bike Park Wales review by 10 year old Tester T

Beautiful mountains are aplenty in the land of the dragons, and luckily for cyclists great riding too! During our summer holiday in Wales, we found areas of this insane natural beauty almost everywhere and luckily for us we had our mountain bikes to ride it (me and my brother using test bikes that Cube bikes…

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Lindsay Bliek Netherlands family cycling blog

Family cycling holiday to the Netherlands

Mum of 2 Lindsay gives the low down on planning and enjoying a family cycling holiday to The Netherlands

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