Discover the UK’s best traffic-free cycle routes

Below are some of the most recent route guides, but be sure to visit the UK-wide map, showing all the route guides. All routes have a custom WillCycle map, from which you can download the GPX for the route, and where you can see the route profile in detail.

The route guides include an up-to-date weather forecast, and lots of information about the route. It even tells how how long it would take to cycle, at your preferred speed.

Featured routes

These are just some of the stunning routes I have highly-detailed guides for. Refresh the page to see more routes.

Phoenix Trail traffic-free cycle route

Phoenix Trail Cycle Route Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ The Phoenix Trail is an 8 mile, almost entirely traffic-free cycling route in Oxfordshire, linking Princess Risborough with Thame. With the steepest gradient along the route being less than 2%, we can safely call it very flat (as is often the case with...
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North Dorset Trailway Traffic-free Cycle Route

North Dorset Trailway Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ The North Dorset Trailway is a 9 mile traffic-fee and stunning cycle route, built mostly on a disused railway. It links Sturminster Newton with Blandford Forum, and mostly follows the route of the old Somerset and Dorset Railway. All photos by TessOfTheVale. Also visit...
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Cole Green Way traffic-free cycle route

The Cole Green Way is a 5 mile route that runs along a disused railway line. The route as shown below starts at Hertford East train station, so you can easily get there by bike. Just be sure to first read my Bikes on Trains post. The route shown below...
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Traffic-free Cycling Route Guide Ratings Explained

Star-rated  traffic-free  cycle  routes As you may have noticed, I started grading the route guides I publish, using a star grading system. This grading system is to give an indication of family-friendliness of a route, which is a grading that will also help new adult cyclists, as well as less...
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Dart Valley Cycleway

Dart Valley Cycleway cycle route overall rating: (Colour explanation: blue = good, yellow indicates some warning, and red indicates issues to be aware of) This 6.3 mile route is gorgeous, and will make a great day out, but is quite a mix. From the outset, you need to understand that...
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Latest from the blog

  • Fairy Trails
    I’ve a new feature on some of my traffic-free route guides: Fairy Trails. Fairy Trails are additional, GPS-enabled, mini adventures, aimed at kids 3 to 5 years old. Taking kids on a bike ride can be a great adventure in itself, but kids have fertile imaginations. That’s why we read them fairy tales. And also … Read more
  • Treasure Hunt: A Cycling Adventure You Can’t Plan For
    Somewhere along some of WillCycle’s traffic-free routes, there are stickers hidden. Those were been placed there deliberately, in a spot that requires effort to reach. It won’t appear on any map. Nobody is going to tell you where it is. And the first WillCycler to find it and send proof will have their first name … Read more
  • Why one map is never enough
    We’ve all been there: you planned a glorious route for a bike ride. You checked OS Maps and confirmed it’s a bridleway that you may legally use. You planned a 50 mile loop, using that bridleway to avoid a nasty, busy A-road. Then you arrive, and that “legal right of way” is a chest-high sea … Read more
  • Lanterne Rouge Ride
    In the Tour de France, the Lanterne Rouge is the rider who finishes dead last. They are the survivor, the tail-light in the dark, and if we’re being honest, the person who probably had the most interesting day. While the hardcore roadies are busy staring at their power meters and sweating through their Lycra to … Read more