routes around cheddar gorge

kierhanlon6

hello im planning a day trip to cheddar gorge was hoping to park down the bottom cycle around a route to the top and then cycle back down the main gorge bit. was planning on doing 25-35 miles. does any one know any decent route that i could do around the gorge?

aw1808

Hello ,

I was given a route by a mate who lives down that way and its a hilly ride but great , covers both cheddar gorge and burrington coombe . its called the standard mendip loop .

Do you have a garmin to upload a route into ?

OfficerDigby

No! I decided you have to go up the main gorge bit too!

Try variations or whatever on this.


http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Che ... 8&t=m&z=12

mask of sanity

I would definitely recommend Burrington coombe. If you were to cycle from the bottom of Cheddar to the bottom of Burrington and back you'd get about 20 miles with quite a bit of climbing. The scenery is stunning as well so doing a there and back ride shouldn't be too boring.

JonathanWright

OfficerDigby wrote:

No! I decided you have to go up the main gorge bit too!

Try variations or whatever on this.

+1 to this route. I've mapped it using ridewithgps so you can see the elevation. Last time I rode Burrington they'd resurfaced it using the method of chucking a load of gravel down so if you do go down it take care.

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/794852

kierhanlon6

aw1808 wrote:

Hello ,

I was given a route by a mate who lives down that way and its a hilly ride but great , covers both cheddar gorge and burrington coombe . its called the standard mendip loop .

Do you have a garmin to upload a route into ?

hello
yea i have a garmin so could you send me the route please
cheers

aw1808

best place to get the route from is this site -

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/384376

aw1808

you can download the route from the right hand side where it says export . i rode it off this a month ago and used the directions on my garmin 800 and it wa a lovely ride but quite a bit of climbing .