Route library
These are the routes we usually ride. Click the image of the map for a larger overview of the route. Clicking on the route title will take you to the Strava route, which can be downloaded for your favorite cycling computer—or RideWithGPS on your phone.
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Road cycling routes under 30 miles
Shorter routes of 11.4 to 28 miles, including the Monday night social ride, the world-renowned Costco Loop, and a couple of C ride favorites.
11.4 miles
Starts at Prospect Park
Return: turn south off Dewes.
Usual pace: C ride
23 miles
Harlem, Glenview, Wagner, Happ, Voltz, Techny, Techny Basin, Lehigh, Harlem
Usual pace: C ride
15 miles
Starts at Prospect Park. Extends short route to the Glen Metra station.
Usual pace: B ride
27 miles
Shermer to Shermer through downtown Northbrook plus all of Beckwith. Good route for tempo rides
20 miles
Shermer, Glenview, Greenwood, Glen Club bypass, N thru the Glen, around Costco, Lehigh, Harlem
Usual pace: A-C
27 miles
A quieter route prioritizing residential roads with a stop at Better Bean in downtown Northbrook
28 miles
Highlights: historic Evanston, Northwestern Univ lakefront, Baha'i temple
Usual pace: C ride
Road cycling routes of 30-50 miles
These routes are generally used for C rides or as shorter versions of our weekend A-B rides
30 miles
Depart the long route at Park Ave. Pass Hometown Coffee at mi 16.
Usual pace: A-B ride
32 miles
Depart the Long Grove loop just past Kirchoff at mile 17
Usual pace: A-B ride
45 miles
Out via Glenview, Wagner, Winnetka, NBT to Forest Way. Return is reverse of Hansa West
32 miles
Out: Glenview, Sheridan, Old Green Bay. Return: Bluff, Forestway, Tower, Frontage, Winnetka, Wagne
Usual pace: C ride
36 miles
The short version of our Hansa West, departing the long route at Duffy. Bathroom at Metra station 21 miles in.
Usual pace: A-B ride
50 miles
Extends Glencoe route. Starbucks at mile 27; Three Tarts/Starbuks at mile 40.
Usual pace: A, B, or C ride
32 miles
The Cat's Meow.
Highlights: Northbrook back roads, velodrome, Three Tarts bakery.
Usual pace: C ride
40 miles
Extends Glencoe Beach route into Highlnnd Park. Return: St Johns, Green Bay, Forestway... then Glencoe route.
Usual pace: C ride
50 miles
Out: Hansa West until roundabout. Return: Sheridan to Plaza (2nd Starbucks), Glenview
Usual pace: A-B ride
Road cycling routes over 50 miles
Our usual weekend A and B rides—and a few longer ones
54 miles
Out: Pfingsten, Sanders, Riverwoods, St Mary's.
Back: Telegraph, Pfingsten, Western, Shermer, Glen Club bypass.
58 miles
Our bread-and-butter route.
Out: Sheridan to Ft Sheridan. Return: Skokie Valley to Clavey to Green Bay.
66 miles
Extends the Long Grove loop by 12 miles from the corner of Ela and Cuba roads
1,407 feet of climbing
54 miles
Canfield to Montrose to Oriole to Forest Preserve to Belmont through Franklin Park and then Wood Dale and Schaumburg. Coffee stop at Yafi Coffee 28 miles in on Schaumburg Road
60 miles
Older route that goes out via Hansa West route
1,033 feet of climbing
80 miles
XL version of Long Grove XL, extending 14 miles northwest from Old Barrington Road. Rest stops in Strava files
2,140 feet of climbing
57 miles
Out: Algonquin, Lonnquist through Mt Prospect. Return: Portwine, Sanders, Walters, The Glen
1,065 feet of climbing
63 miles
Returns via Old School Road, Everett, Skokie Valley Trail, most of Hansa East return
101 miles
Park at 21.7 miles with water, bathrooms. Speedway at 42.5 miles. Starbucks in Barrington 48 miles in for coffee
2,327 feet of climbing
Gravel routes
40 miles
Head out on the Des Plaines River Trail and back on the North Branch Trail
49 miles
Des Plaines River Trail to Busch Parkway west to Buffalo Creek preserve
57 miles
Gravelpalooza! DPRT, Buffalo Creek, and Deer Grove
59 miles
Des Plaines River Trail out and back with a coffee stop at Tala in Libertyville