VA · mixed · mixed
The Heart of Appalachia Bike Route
41.2-mile mixed route with 1155 ft of elevation gain, signed as part of the regional cycle network.
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Today's verdict
Workable day to get the road bike out.
64 /100
good
64 Road
57 E-bike
Best for road cycling today
Route map
Orange marker is the start. Click the map to enable scroll-zoom — the polyline is approximate; use Ride with GPS or Komoot for turn-by-turn.
Atmosphere
- Air temp43°FClear
- Wind— mph
- Rain0%Next 24h: 0.00"
- Air qualityAQI 50PM2.5 · Good
- Humidity100%
Surface & daylight
- Pavementdrymixed surface
- Sunrise7:47 AM
- Sunset6:38 PM642 min remaining
Best time today
10 AM looks best — 52°F · 0 mph wind · sunny. 11 AM is a close second (77/100).
42°
Mostly Sunny
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64
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64
52°
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77
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77
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77
70°
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71°
Mostly Clear
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77
Wind on this route
Calm — wind is a non-factor today.
Currently 0 mph from the N (0°). Relative to this ride's overall bearing, a crosswind.
- Leg 1 Bearing 120° · quartering tailwind 1.7 mi
- Leg 2 Bearing 86° · crosswind 2.0 mi
- Leg 3 Bearing 68° · quartering headwind 1.9 mi
- Leg 4 Bearing 66° · quartering headwind 2.1 mi
- Leg 5 Bearing 112° · quartering tailwind 2.1 mi
- Leg 6 Bearing 62° · quartering headwind 1.6 mi
- Leg 7 Bearing 76° · crosswind 1.9 mi
- Leg 8 Bearing 52° · quartering headwind 1.9 mi
Elevation profile
Score breakdown
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43°F air Within comfort range, outside ideal
-3 +
Pavement: dry Clean dry pavement — maximum grip.
+4 +
AQI 50 Clean air
+3 About this route
- Distance
- 41.2 mi one-way (double for round-trip)
- Elevation gain
- 1155 ft
- Surface
- mixed
- Shape
- Out-and-back
- Traffic exposure
- mixed
- Activities
- road cycling · e bike
- Cycle network
- RCN
- Start
36.9003, -82.3060- OSM
- relation 1783529
Description sourced from OpenStreetMap relation tags and member-way geometry.