探骑 TANQI

China Gravel Routes

Many people ask me “Where can I ride offroad, where are good gravel or mixed adventure routes?”. The aim of this resource is to share that information. A community and collection of routes. 

The aim of this group is to:

  • Post & build a gravel route database for China. Individual rides & routes on the Strava Tanqi group.
  • Share these routes to the greater community. A Collection on ridewithgps and province listings on tanqi.cc. Updated monthly.
  • Open source and non-commercial. We personally have support from brands but they and their products or services are not promoted on this resource.

Post and share your gravel and off-road routes through the Strava group! Please make sure there is at least 5km of gravel / offroad in one section and the gravel / offroad makes up for more than 50% of your route! We don’t want 60% road road with a few 1km sections of gravel! 

Route Posting Guidelines

  • Please post the suggested route or activity to our Strava group or send the GPX and notes to wechat….
  • Please tag it #探骑 #tanqi #CGR 
  • We will review it within 30 days and add to the collection & province listing.
  • Don’t post routes in restricted areas.
  • The route is cyclable, preferable on a gravel bike. Very short Hike&Bikes are accepted please note where.
  • 5Km or more gravel or offroad section.
  • 50% of route is gravel (cut the route down if not).
  • No Spam.
  • Non Commercial posting at all (it will be deleted). Feel free to add your and your sponsors tags at the end of the description.

Some Further Information

What is gravel riding in China?. What is adventure riding?. Types of gravel? Mapping in China.

How to post route

Find your ride and route in strava app or site. On the app scroll down the activity and find the share button. On the website share if found on the top. Click it and select Strava Post and then China Gravel Routes group and then write your description and post. Done! its live to the world. Alternatvily start a post and copy and paste the activity url into the post.

Area Listing

Routes by area. Will be added in april.

Province, Autonomous Region, Municipalities, Special Administrative Regions:

安徽 (AH) Anhui — Hefei (合肥)
北京 (BJ) Beijing Municipality
重庆 (CQ) Chongqing Municipality
福建 Fujian (FJ) — Fuzhou (福州)
甘肃 (GS) Gansu — Lanzhou (兰州)
广东 (GD) – Guangdong — Guangzhou (广州)
广西壮族 (GX) Guangxi Zhuang — Nanning (南宁)
贵州 (GZ) Guizhou — Guiyang (贵阳)
海南 (HI) Hainan — Haikou (海口)
河北 (HE) Hebei — Shijiazhuang (石家庄)
黑龙江 Heilongjiang — Harbin (哈尔滨)
河南 Henan — Zhengzhou (郑州)
香港 Hong Kong
湖北 Hubei — Wuhan (武汉)
湖南 Hunan — Changsha (长沙)
内蒙古 Inner Mongolia, Neimonggo — Hohhot (呼和浩特)
江苏 Jiangsu — Nanjing (南京)
江西 Jiangxi — Nanchang (南昌)
吉林 Jilin — Changchun (长春)
辽宁 Liaoning — Shenyang (沈阳)
澳门 Macau,
宁夏回族 Ningxia Hui — Yinchuan (银川)
青海 Qinghai — Xining (西宁)
上海 Shanghai Municipality
陕西 Shaanxi — Xi’an (西安)
山东 Shandong — Jinan (济南)
山西 Shanxi — Taiyuan (太原)
四川 Sichuan — Chengdu (成都)
台湾 Taiwan – Taipei
天津 Tianjin Municipality
西藏 Tibet, Xizhang — Lhasa (拉萨)
新疆维吾尔族 Xinjiang Uighur — Urumqi (乌鲁木齐)
云南 Yunnan — Kunming (昆明)
浙江 Zhejiang — Hangzhou (杭州)

(other outlining areas and remote islands etc are not included in this listing as we have not heard of any gravel cycling there, if you see any mistakes in these listings please be so kind as to point them out in a constructive way, we are a bunch of international people based in the PRC so we follow their norms and naming while being accessible to the greater community). Should we include border countries as well? There is some great gravel riding and easy to get to such as Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Russia, Kazakhstan etc