Routes:
Route 1. Hayfield
Distance: 26km
A compact route, strenuous even for the fit rider. Includes some great downhills.
Route 2. Edale
Distance: 23km
A tough route with surfaces that are generally well rutted and rocky.
Route 3. Glossop
Distance: 61km
The longest route in the book and probably the toughest! Great variety of terrain some requiring good technique.
Route 4. Ladybower
Distance: 29km
A very scenic route with good challenges, up and down!
Route 5. Stanage
Distance: 37km
Great, varied ride, quite hilly and tough.
Route 6. Castleton
Distance: 14km
A short ride which is mainly well drained, on hard tracks, grass and roads, with a final technical descent down a narrow rocky limestone dale.
Route 7. Bradwell
Distance: 10km
Wide tracks, fast descents and short steep climbs.
Route 8. Buxton
Distance: 24km
Can get a bit boggy but generally an all-weather ride. Includes some bumpy descents.
Route 9. Chelmorton
Distance: 24km
Steep sides scenic dales, gravel tracks, green roads, bridleways, stretches of walled lanes and complex patterns of walled fields makes for a very varied ride.
Route 10. Baslow
Distance: 35km
An excellent all weather route, also a good route for cafe stops!
Route 11. Linacre
Distance: 28km
A fun and challenging ride with lots of ups and downs.
Route 12. Chatsworth
Distance: 31km
A route that is easy to shorten if required. Mostly the landscape is rolling parkland, limestone farmland, gtitstone moor or deciduous woodland with plenty of hills.
Route 13. Middleton by Youlgreave
Distance: 24km
Technically an easy route (nothing too bumpy) with a few hills thrown in for good measure.
Route 14. Darley Bridge
Distance: 29km
Gravel and soil tracks, some of them and rocky, with field and limestone dales as well.
Route 15. Ashover
Distance: 12km
A very enjoyable short ride. A classic!
16. Manifold
Distance: 29km
This route explores the heavily wooded and dramatic manifold valley and some of the surrounding limestone dotted with sheep farms.
17. Derby North
Distance: 40km
A route that links up some interesting off road sections north of Derby.
18. Ashbourne
Distance: 32km
A mixed terrain route including a fair amount of old railway cinder track and pleasant small roads.
19. Doveridge
Distance: 13km
Muddy tracks and small roads around the rolling farmland on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border.
20. Ticknall, Robin Wood
Distance: 15km
This route makes for a lovely afternoon or evening ride, with tracks mainly of gravel, sand and some mud. Some tracks on ploughed land make heavy going when wet.
Route 21. Ticknall, Repton Shrubs
Distance: 23km
A enjoyable route that is not technical or too hilly.
Route 22. Gradbach
Distance: 37km
An interesting route which involves quite a bit of road work. If you like this area then we wold recommend the following map which has really shows the best trails to ride: Gradbach Mountain Bike Map
Route 23. Minninglow
Distance: 13km
Mixed surfaces of grass and hard tracks - very little road work.
Route 24. Bolsover
Distance: 41km
A rolling route through the industrial coalfields of NE Derbyshire.
Route 25. Locko Park
Distance: 19km
A real charmer - gently sauntering through wooded parkland, hedged green lanes and across open fields.
Route 26. Bakewell & Monyash
Distance: 42km
A hilly and varied route, skirting and crossing limestone dales and farmland.
Route 27. Matlock & Carsington
Distance: 58km
A big day ride for fit riders - on generally good surfaces. Challenging with lots of variety.
Route 28. Churnet Valley
Distance: 45km
A lovely wooded route, in summer very green, in winter maybe a bit muddy in places.
Route 29. Belper
Distance: 20km
This medium/short route around Belper does not feel in most parts at all urban. There are some high up sections with views of the surrounding countryside, and a few fun rocky sections.
