Big Perks, Bigger Adventure

Ruglie Kaladyte

Big Perks, Bigger Adventure

Staff

Oct 20th, 2025

Support

This year, 2026, 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 Canadian route; the Klamath Mountains Loop, which explores its newly undammed namesake watershed; and the Epic-with-a-capital-E Golden Gravel Trail, a 3,800-mile, mixed-surface cycling journey spanning from Oregon’s Pacific Coast to the mighty Mississippi River.

And while we released 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; and new discounts from other leading outdoor brands.

If that wasn’t enough, every new and returning Adventure Cycling member is automatically entered in our annual bike giveaway. This year’s prize is a Co-Motion Tumalo. And in addition to all these fantastic benefits, Adventure Cyclist, our 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.