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!

Cycling with kids in Bali - capital city Denpasar

Bali and Lombok family cycling holiday – getting to Indonesia

The adventure starts! Kathryn and her family have set off for a cycling adventure in Indonesia. Here’s how the first leg of the journey went…….

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Swale Trail nr Keld, Yorkshire Dales is a great mountain biking route for families with older children

New family friendly MTB trail opens in Yorkshire Dales

The Swale Trail is a family friendly mountain biking route in the hear of the Yorkshire Dales

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Cycling infrastructure in Portland, Oregon

Can you use the Viator App to book a family cycling tour?

Is it possible to book a cycling tour for all the family through an App? We put Viator to the test – here’s how we got on

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At the top of Mount Helena Montana

A family of Brits mountain biking in Helena – a rare sighting!

“You chose to come to Helena on vacation from the UK?” I was asked with incredulity as I handed over my cash at a checkout. It soon became clear that Helena, Montana, isn’t a frequent stop off point for UK holidaymakers! We’d chosen it as a destination for the Cycle Sprog road trip of the…

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Cycling Coast to Coast in Cornwall with kids

Cornwall is one of my favourite parts of the UK – it’s just such a pity it’s so far from where we live in Cumbria! Last time we were able to make the pilgrimage, we decided to try out cycling the Cornwall Coast to Coast with our two boys, from Portreath on the Atlantic Ocean…

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Ketchum Pump Track, Idaho

Ketchum Capers – cycling with kids in Sun Valley, Idaho

Next stop on our family road trip was Ketchum and Sun Valley, Idaho, where we’d planned two days of mountain biking. Would we survive Forbidden Fruit?

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