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We are thrilled to unveil the Ride with GPS Heatmap, our newest tool to help you discover and plan great, safe routes - no matter where you are. See where local cyclists ride when you''re out of town, or turn it on in the route planner and uncover a new loop in your own backyard. Available while recording, planning, or just viewing a route - the heatmap is an endlessly valuable tool.

We launched The Great Community Route Celebration in an effort to put the focus on the places that make our communities special. Over the past several weeks, 400+ routes have been submitted from all over the world and we are loving seeing all of the small businesses, local attractions and natural wonders being highlighted along
the way!

With so many great submissions, it's impossible to choose a favorite, but here are a couple of Celebration routes that really stood out to us:

North Oakland County Gravel

We don''t have to travel the world to find great cycling, sometimes the best places to ride are in our backyards. This route highlights some of the best riding in the rural areas outside of Detroit, and makes a pretty good case for adding lower Michigan onto your cycling
bucket list.

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Sundgau Bike Trail

This route in NE France travels through the Swiss Alps, the French Jura, and the German Black Forest, while taking you from the castle ruins to Romanesque churches, and from historic villages to the remains of ancient wars. It's got a little bit of everything, to say
the least!

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The Celebration runs through July 5, so you still have time to submit your route.

Ride with GPS Ambassador James Hayden won the Further 2020 race in thrilling fashion! We sat down with him to learn more about his winning route planning strategy, see what gear he chose for the race, and get the inside scoop on that incredibly close finish.

The Great Community Route Celebration turned out to be a worldwide party! From June 11th through July 5th, our members submitted 523 routes from 52 countries that covered 31,784 miles (more than the circumference of Earth) and used POIs to point out their favorite small businesses and public spaces along the way. To commemorate the Celebration, we made an interactive map of all the routes so that you can easily zoom in to explore places close to home or across the world.

Did you know...?

Through these routes, we learned so much about communities across the globe. For our final Celebration recap, we compiled a list of the top ten things we learned from the POIs in the routes.

Read the final recap

We are excited to announce popularity-influenced routing, a major improvement to our web and mobile route planner.

We looked at over 13 million of our users'' most recent rides, covering 427 million miles, and determined how frequently any given road is traveled. And now, using a combination of safety, distance, and popularity as a tiebreaker, our route planner is better than ever at directing you on your rides.

Get some tips and tricks on planning an epic bike tour close to home, from Ride with GPS Ambassador Chas Christiansen.

Auto-Trace

One of the most used features in our route planner is the Trace Tool, which enables folks to manually trace rides to generate a detailed route with a cuesheet. Auto-Trace further simplifies the process by doing the tracing work for you - it's bound to become one of your new favorite tools.

Curious if you have enough time to sneak in that short loop before work? Need to know how many miles you can pack into a day and still get to the campsite before dark? Want to keep your family in the loop about when you will be home from your ride?

Whether you are on the road navigating with our mobile app or plotting out a new route at home with our route planner, Estimated Time is an essential tool for helping you prepare for the road ahead and we're here to show you the ins and outs of how to make the most of it.

We set out to make your experience of recording rides and navigating routes in the app more intuitive and enjoyable, and we're excited to share the improvements with you.

On June 11, we launched The Great Community Route Celebration in an effort to focus on the places that make our communities special. We invited all of our members to be a part of the Celebration by submitting a route that puts the spotlight on their favorite small businesses, parks, and natural spaces in their community, and it's off to a great start!

Check out a couple of our favorite routes from the first week of the Celebration:

Explore Hope Valley

Stunning ascents, breathtaking views, mellow country roads, local pubs to stop for a pint or coffee along the way, historic villages, and yes, plenty of sheep. Grace's route in the English countryside offers a little bit of everything.

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Bike to Art

Much like bikes, public art can build and revitalize communities. The city of Springfield, Missouri understands this well. Every year the city hosts a pop-up outdoor museum with sculptures displayed along city streets, and Randy's route takes us to all of them by bike.

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The Celebration will go until July 5, so there's still plenty of time to submit your route if you haven't already.

Over six months in 1972, Jon Jantzen and Paul Hamilton pedaled 6,281 miles on their 10-speed bicycles from Paris, France to Mussoorie, India. And, nearly 50 years later, we're lucky enough that Jon took the time to meticulously document all of it and share it
with us.

Throughout three Ride Reports, Jon uses entries from his original trip diary and photos he took along the way to document the entire journey, creating a unique time capsule for us all to enjoy. Though many of the roads are long-gone and the route cannot be recreated, this is a must-read for anyone who is interested in the history of bike touring, searching for inspiration for their next adventure, or just looking for a good story. As you read the reports you''ll see that a great deal has changed in the past half-century (the bikes! the clothes!), but the passion for experiencing life from two wheels rings just as true. Enjoy!

Many cyclists are attempting to keep themselves and each other safe and healthy by riding alone or in small groups these days. As you increasingly hit the road solo, we want you to know that we''ve got your back with these safety-focused features.

We strive to listen to our users' needs and continually innovate based on your suggestions. We have heard your requests, and are thrilled to announce that all of your favorite Ride with GPS tools on our website and in our mobile app are now available in Japanese, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Italian.

Choose Your Language

Update your preference on the website by clicking your profile icon and selecting a language. No need to worry about the mobile app - it will automatically update to whatever default language your phone is set to.

Plan & Share the Best Routes

With six new languages, it's never been easier to plan new routes and analyze your data. And, when it comes time to share with family and friends, you'll now be able to share in your preferred language.

Navigate from Anywhere

Our new languages are also available in our mobile app. You can navigate with language-specific voice navigation, plan and edit routes, and track all of your stats and goals without having to guess what a certain word might mean.

This May we made your route planning experience more intuitive and enjoyable with a slew of updates for the web route planner. In fact, we shared so many fresh designs, new tools, and updates of well-loved features that we wouldn''t blame you if you missed some of them.

Direct File Import

Have you ever wished it was easier to upload your route and ride files into the route planner? Us too. With Direct File Import we''ve taken what used to be a long and somewhat convoluted process and simplified it to be as easy as 1-2-3. In the route planner choose Import Existing, select one or more files, then click Add to Planner. That's it.

The Great Community Route Celebration is a worldwide invitation to focus on the places that make our communities special, by creating a route that highlights the places and spaces we treasure.

With the spread of COVID-19, many of us have been keeping ourselves and each other safe by staying close to home and away from many of our favorite places in the community. And so instead of asking you to plan the longest, hardest and most epic rides that lead to remote, unknown places, we are inviting people to think local and focus on the places that make their communities special, so that when it's safe and responsible to visit them again we'll have routes ready to take us there.

Plan Your Route

Ride with GPS members can be a part of the Celebration by submitting a route with a cue sheet that includes POIs for their favorite places and spaces in their community.

Everyone is Welcome

We've recently made many improvements to our route planner and we want everyone to be able to take advantage of them, so all of our paid route planning & editing features will be unlocked and available for everyone to use for your celebration route!

Learn more about our advanced planning features

A Global Collaboration

The Celebration will take place June 11 - July 5. After July 5, we will be sharing a worldwide map that shows all of the community- focused routes.

Start planning your route today, so that when it's safe and responsible to visit your favorite places and spaces, you'll be ready.