Cycling in Devon
Harford Bridge Park Is a quality graded VisitEngland Cycle Friendly park with a cycle hub and other facilities for cyclists including a drying room and cyclist pitches for £13.50 per night.
We are on National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 27 – click on the DevonCoasttoCoast weblink to find out more.
The easily accessible sections from Harford Bridge Park are:
Drake’s Trail a 21-mile, multi-use route linking Tavistock with Plymouth. The route runs along the western edge of Dartmoor with superb countryside, attractive scenery, and much historical and heritage interest along the way.
In addition to the main Drake’s Trail route, there is a network of two other cycling routes linking nearby places that featured in Drake’s life, from his birthplace, to the house he owned at the time of his death, and following sections of the 18-mile Drake’s Leat to Plymouth Hoe, where legend has it he played bowls. Get the dowloadable PDF Leaflet.
The Granite Way is an 11 mile multi-use trail running between Okehampton and Lydford along the north western edge of Dartmoor. It is mostly traffic free, largely following the course of the former Southern Region railway line. A journey along the Granite Way offers fantastic views of the granite landscape of Dartmoor, as well as a number of specific sites of geological interest. Get the downloadable PDF Route Map
Find other Cycle Adventures
Selected cycle routes in Devon can be found on Cycle Sprog – lots of recommendations for cycle adventures – whether you’re a local family, looking for a quick bike ride out, or are from further afield planning a day trip or a longer holiday with the kids, there’s bound to be a family friendly cycle route to suit.
The Cycle Sprog site has a pick of Devon’s finest traffic, free family friendly cycle routes, plus some books and maps to help planning.
Mountain Biking
Goldeneye Guides publish a guide to Mountain Biking on Dartmoor
There are also routes and tracks at Tavistock Woodlands through the woods and spoil tips of the old Devon Consuls mining World Heritage Site – it’s called the Gawton Gravity Hub – serious stuff including 500ft gravity fed descent through the National Landscape and tracks with names like ‘Mega Tavi’ and ‘Rattler’.
