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Ride with GPS

Ride with GPS (RWGPS) is one of the most widely used route planning and navigation platforms in the cycling world. Whether you're planning a weekend ride with friends, following an organized club route, or exploring unfamiliar roads while traveling, Ride with GPS makes it easy to create, share, and navigate bicycle routes.

Today, thousands of cycling clubs, event organizers, and individual cyclists rely on Ride with GPS to organize rides and help riders stay on course.

Planning Your Ride

At its core, Ride with GPS is a route planning tool. Riders can create their own routes using detailed road and trail maps or choose from millions of publicly shared routes created by other cyclists.

Routes include information such as:

• Distance
• Total climbing
• Elevation profiles
• Surface type
• Estimated riding time
• Turn-by-turn directions

Before heading out, riders can study the terrain, identify major climbs, locate rest stops, and decide whether a route matches their fitness level and available time.

Navigation

Ride with GPS offers reliable turn-by-turn navigation using either the mobile app or compatible GPS bicycle computers from companies such as Garmin and Wahoo.

Instead of stopping at every intersection to check a map, riders receive spoken directions or on-screen prompts that guide them along the planned route. This allows cyclists to spend more time enjoying the ride and less time worrying about where to turn next.

Navigation is especially valuable when riding unfamiliar roads or participating in organized club rides where everyone follows the same route.

Route Libraries

Many cycling clubs maintain extensive Ride with GPS route libraries for their members. These collections often include favorite local rides, scenic routes, training loops, gravel adventures, and challenging mountain climbs.

Having access to a shared library makes it easy for new members to discover popular rides while giving experienced riders an organized way to revisit old favorites.

Central Oregon cyclists benefit from hundreds of excellent routes covering everything from quiet country roads to scenic mountain passes and gravel backroads.

Clubs and Events

Ride with GPS has become a standard tool for many cycling organizations. Clubs publish weekly ride routes, event organizers distribute official course maps, and ride leaders can make last-minute route changes that immediately become available to participants.

Because everyone follows the same digital route, organized rides are often safer, easier to manage, and more enjoyable for riders of every experience level.

Free and Premium Options

Ride with GPS offers both free and paid memberships.

The free version allows riders to discover routes, create basic routes, record rides, and share them with others.

Premium memberships add advanced planning tools, offline maps, voice navigation, route organization, heat maps, and additional features that many frequent cyclists find valuable.

Many cycling clubs also provide members with enhanced Ride with GPS benefits through their club membership.

Why We Recommend It

For many Central Oregon cyclists, Ride with GPS has become an essential riding companion. It simplifies route planning, helps riders explore new roads with confidence, and makes group rides easier to organize and enjoy.

Whether you're riding solo, joining a local cycling club, or preparing for a multi-day tour, Ride with GPS is one of the best tools available for getting the most from every ride.

For additional information, visit the official Ride with GPS website.

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