Easy cycle routes

[1978 14]

so we have done monsal, we have done tissington where else is fairly flat and a decent ride for a family? including a 6 year old have we exhausted all the easy ones? as we are looking to go out again tomorrow any ideas?

 

High Peak Trail, see; http://www.peakdistrictcycleways.co.uk/cycle-route.php?route=HPT1

 

Again, it's all old railways so you don't need gears - although nice weather will help. You don't need to do it all at once as it's quite long for a 6 year old.

 

 

A little further away is the Manifold Trail, another old railway, see; http://www.peakdistrictcycleways.co.uk/cycle-route.php?route=Mnfld1

[meister 10]

High Peak Trail, see; http://www.peakdistrictcycleways.co.uk/cycle-route.php?route=HPT1

 

Again, it's all old railways so you don't need gears - although nice weather will help. You don't need to do it all at once as it's quite long for a 6 year old.

 

 

A little further away is the Manifold Trail, another old railway, see; http://www.peakdistrictcycleways.co.uk/cycle-route.php?route=Mnfld1

 

our 6 year old amazed us last week she managed from parsley hay to sainsburys at ashbourne and then all the way back to alsop car park,

me and my son left my little one and her mom there and rode the 7 mile back to parsley hay to fetch the car

[1978 14]

our 6 year old amazed us last week she managed from parsley hay to sainsburys at ashbourne and then all the way back to alsop car park,

me and my son left my little one and her mom there and rode the 7 mile back to parsley hay to fetch the car

 

The High Peak Trail can be started from Parsley Hay. It ends at the Cromford Canal, but that includes very steep inclines going down to the Derwent valley.

 

Middleton Top might be a better place to turn back:-) That would involve going down, and back up, the 1:14 Hopton Incline - a challenge for the young riders to see who had to walk it!

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopton_Incline and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/897250