Tours in the Southeast

Gators and great food highlight many of our trips down south, but this year-round cycling destination is far from a one-note song — this is the home of the blues and Rock n’ Roll, after all! Ride the snaking roads of Appalachia or along the sugar-sand beaches of the Carolinas, heck, it doesn’t matter where you’re headed as long as there’s BBQ or gumbo at the end of a long day in the saddle. Find some shade under sprawling live oak tree, and don’t forget a Wet-Nap — BBQ sauce on the handlebars can get sticky!

Arkansas High Country: Van Supported. This van-supported trip will explore a portion of the Arkansas High Country Adventure Route. This challenging ride will be perfect for a gravel grinder or hardtail mountain bike. The tour has a lot of gravel and quiet low-traffic routes exploring the rugged Ouachita Mountains.

Blue Ridge Bliss - Virginia: Fully Supported. A perennial favorite, our Blue Ridge Bliss tour includes a beautiful route through Shenandoah National Park. On this very special bicycle tour, you’ll explore 332 of the very best miles along the Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive. Join us for Blue Ridge Bliss!

Florida Keys: Van Supported. Get a second dose of summer with this Sunshine State ride. You can smile wide as you ride knowing you're enjoying 300 miles of sunny, warm weather!

Florida Keys: Self Contained. Get a second dose of summer with this Sunshine State ride. You can smile wide as you ride knowing you're enjoying 387 miles of sunny, warm weather!

Intro to Road Touring - Florida: Self Contained. As the experts on self-contained bicycle travel, we'd like to share our knowledge by offering our Introduction to Road Touring (IRT) course. Two days of open-air, informal campground discussions will be followed by a fun, four-day tour of the Florida Panhandle area.

Natchez Trace: Van Supported.The Natchez Trace Parkway is one of the North American continent's crown-jewel byways. We're going to pedal every inch of this nearly continuous greenway linking the southern Appalachian foothills and the bluffs of the lower Mississippi River.

Ragin' Cajun Country: Fully Supported. Bicycle through the heart of Cajun Country and partake of all the food, music, and culture that Acadiana has to offer. On this relaxed tour you can enjoy jambalaya, crawfish pie, and gumbo, and you'll find that the spicy cuisine of southern Louisiana is complemented by its mellow terrain.

Southern Natchez Trace: Fully Supported. Come experience cycling the best of the Southeast. Travel along the scenic Natchez Trace Parkway from Ridgeland to Natchez, a Southern jewel of a town. You’ll visit historic sites, enjoy scenic back road riding, and eat some spectacular Southern food!

Southern Tier: Van Supported. The Southern Tier has become one of our most popular tours, and it's easy to see why. This cross-country route is 1,200 miles shorter than either the Northern Tier or TransAm yet offers epic quantities of scenery and shoulder-season sunshine.

Sunshine and Space Coast: Van Supported. The Sunshine and Space Coast tour is a great way to see more of what Florida has to offer besides crowded theme parks. This tour will give you a backroad look at a quieter side of the Sunshine State and finish with a spectacular view of the Atlantic Ocean. Possibly even a rocket launch! And what's more, our van will do the heavy lifting.

TransAm Westward: Self Contained. Thousands of cyclists have pedaled the 4,253-mile TransAmerica Trail and will tell you they captured a lifetime's worth of memories along their tour. For many traveling cyclists who haven't yet experienced the TransAm, it remains the holy grail of American bicycle tours.

Tour Team Top Picks

Patagonia AZ Gravel: Van Supported. Some of the best spring and fall gravel riding in the U.S. can be found outside southern Arizona's small, eclectic town of Patagonia, and we'll hit the dirt on this long-weekend gravel adventure.

Hawaii 3 Island: Inn to Inn. Maui, Molokai, and Lanai: three of Hawaii's most beautiful islands and the setting for an unrivaled bicycle travel adventure. This unique tour features a ferry and a small plane to bring together these three Hawaiian islands into a single bicycle tour.

Great Parks North: Self-Contained. Join us for Adventure Cycling’s Great Parks North Route. This tour will follow the Rocky Mountains from Missoula, Montana, to Jasper, Alberta, exploring some of the most spectacular national parks the U.S. and Canada have to offer. Great Parks North will highlight Glacier, Waterton, Banff, and Jasper national parks, and jaw-dropping scenery will not be lacking on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure.