Big Perks, Bigger Adventure

Ruglie Kaladyte

Staff

Oct 20th, 2025

Support

Next year marks Adventure Cycling’s Golden Jubilee — five decades of route building, guided tours, cycling advocacy, maps, magazines, and more that couldn’t have happened without our members. And we’re not slowing down.

In the past year, we’ve developed three amazing new bike touring and bikepacking routes: Canada’s Vancouver Crossing Loop, our first fully international route; the Klamath Mountains Loop, which explores its newly undammed namesake watershed (launches December 16, 2025); and the Epic-with-a-capital-E Golden Gravel Trail, a 3,688-mile, mixed-surface cycling journey spanning from Oregon’s Pacific Coast to the mighty Mississippi River (launches early 2026).

And while we’ll release all three new routes for free on Ride with GPS to help fulfill our nonprofit mission to grow the sport of bicycle travel in an age of free digital routes, we didn’t skimp on the details you expect from an Adventure Cycling map. Every route was ground-truthed but paid and volunteer route researchers, who rode or drove every mile. And thanks to Ride with GPS’s Experiences platform, we’ve been able to include detailed service listings, including bike shops, restaurants, cyclist-friendly hostels, campgrounds, and more. Plus, notes on route conditions, nearby historical sites, climate information, and route updates from other cyclists. Oh, and did we mention the turn-by-turn audio navigation cues?

When any rider can pedal one of our routes and upload their ride online for others to follow for free, it’s massive lifts like these by our scrappy staff that make memberships more important than ever. They’re the lifeblood of our nonprofit and help fund all of our work from route development to community building.

At the same time, we know we’re all in uncertain economic times, so we’re working to increase the value of membership, too. New benefits include: an ExpertVoice membership for access to hundreds of pro deals on leading brands; opt-in, comprehensive bicycle insurance from BikeInsure; discounts on Ride with GPS premium annual memberships; new discounts from Ritchey, Big Agnes, and WTB; and $40 in store credit at The Feed.

And if that wasn’t enough, every new and returning Adventure Cycling member is automatically entered in our annual bike giveaway. Read our magazine’s detailed review of this year’s prize — a Priority Gemini Smart.Shift Gravel bike — here. And speaking of Adventure Cyclist, the quarterly publication is an exclusive benefit for our Digital Hub and Classic Adventure Cyclist membership tiers and up.

So keep going for a full breakdown of everything you’ll receive. You’ll be scrolling for a while.