Subject: RE: Where to find good cycling routes? join and use strava. the heatmap i'm not familiar with bc im not a premium member, but you can go to the segment explore page and look at segments in your (or any ) area. you can click on each one and see how many people have ridden it so you can see what routes are popular/good for riding.
you can also look at the dates of folks riding those segments, so if there's lots of rides but none since 2013...something may have changed and it may not be good to ride. just an example but you can learn a lot if you look around.
if available, google street view is incredibly useful. you can literally look at the roads youre scouting out. you can see what the pavement looks like, if there's a shoulder, scout intersections, etc. |