Touring routes on paved roads abound in our area, and one of the best circular routes with Flesherton as its base is briefly along Cty 4 east to Cty 13, down into the Beaver Valley, keeping right after Kimberley, through Heathcote. Turn right (south) at the 10th Line; then left on Cty.19 to Ravenna; right on Cty.2 through Kolapore to Feversham, right again on the 8th Line, over the Eugenia Lake causeway and back to Flesherton via Cty. 13 & 4. Distance about 60K.

Another, into the rolling wooded terrain of Glenelg Township and with some gravel roads, is on Cty.4 west to Ceylon, north on the West Back Line to Cty.12. Turn left and follow 12 westward. You are going to have to go on gravel, but you have choices. You can turn left on Traverston Rd (and see a pretty mill) or on the next road which is Sideroad 10 (and have a lovely forested road). Either way you turn right (west again) on the 8th Concession, and then left at the Baseline which wiggles beside the Saugeen River to the 2nd. Concession where you turn left and have one more block of gravel before finding pavement at the Edghill Waldorf School. Continue south on the 2nd., across Cty.4 to the Egremont/Glenelg Townline where you turn left (east) one concession to a 4-way intersection at the Baseline, where you keep half right on the paved Old Railroad Rd, past Wilder's Lake on Conc. 22. Keep on Conc.22 to Cty.23 where you turn north on pavement two blocks to the Southline where again you have a choice. Stay on pavement and continue north to Cty.4 and all the way east to Flesherton (an OK route but some traffic), or turn right on the Southline, crossing the Saugeen yet again, to Cty.14 where you turn north on pavement again to Cty.4 and east to Flesherton.

On paper, and perhaps without a map, this may seem complicated, but it is a lovely, quiet route, no steep long hills, and heavenly on a hot summer day because there are literally dozens of places a cyclist can stop and find a cool dip in the Saugeen, or Wilder's Lake (which is a 'marl' lake with turquoise water).

For those who do not fear gravel there are endless possibilities for cycling on quiet roads among beautiful scenery. And for those who want to jump stumps or hop rocks on their fat tires there is the Kolapore trails referred to under Hiking, and most of which are available for the most fabulous off-road mountain biking in Ontario. Again, get the map from the Ravenna Store, and please respect signs re-routing or forbidding cycles where erosion has caused problems.